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Food rejections in children: Cognitive and social/environmental factors involved in food neophobia and picky/fussy eating behavior

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Lafraire, Jérémie, Rioux, Camille, Giboreau, Agnès, Picard, Delphine·2016·Appetite
DOI 10.1016/j.appet.2015.09.008
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Food neophobia and picky/fussy eating behavior are presented as the two main forms of children's food rejections which are responsible for a reduction of their dietary repertoire. We review the key factors, presented in the literature, that are involved in food rejections during childhood. We first consider a range of "cognitive factors", such as food perception, mental representations, categorization of food items, and emotions and feelings toward food. Next we focus on "social and environmental factors", as these might also significantly influence and modulate children's food rejections. We then summarize the findings to provide a comprehensive view of the factors involved in children's food rejections. Finally, we discuss the need for future studies on food rejections, regarding (i) the distinction between food neophobia and picky/fussy eating, and (ii) the potential link between food categorization abilities and children's food neophobia and pickiness.

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  • Food neophobia is linked with children's and adults' willingness to try new foods, their food choices and limited dietary variety.

    “Food neophobia limits dietary variety in children and adults.”

    From Children overcoming picky eating (COPE) - A cluster randomised controlled trial. (2020) · cites this paper as Lafraire, Rioux, Giboreau, & Picard, 2016

    The Introduction states that food neophobia and picky/fussy eating reduce children's dietary variety. The Developmental trends section says neophobia persists into adulthood, but does not say it limits adults' dietary variety; that extension is unsupported by our copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
Lafraire, J., Rioux, C., Giboreau, A., & Picard, D.
Affiliations
  • Institut Paul Bocuse (FR)
  • Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
Corresponding author
Lafraire, Jérémie
ORCID
Venue
Appetite
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-01
Volume
96
Issue
234
Pages
347-357
ISSN
0195-6663 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.appet.2015.09.008
OpenAlex
W1773621283
Cited by
279
References
184
Citations by year
2026: 22 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 1
FWCI
2.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Appetite (publishedVersion)
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  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
Keywords
food neophobia, picky eating, food perception, food categorization
MeSH terms
Child, Choice Behavior, Cognition, Diet, Feeding Behavior, Food Preferences, Humans, Socioeconomic Factors

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