Assessing children’s food texture acceptance between the beginning of complementary feeding and the age of 36 months old: a French survey

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Complementary feeding: comparison and evaluation of national and international guidelines

Complementary feeding: comparison and evaluation of national and international guidelines. Nutrition and nurture in infancy and childhood: Bio-cultural perspectives

Food texture acceptance during infancy: a longitudinal study

Texture is an important dimension of food acceptance in infancy but few works investigated its role. The present objectives were to describe the evolution of food texture acceptance and feeding skills in 6 to 18-mo-old. Two groups of healthy children participated in this study conducted at the laboratory at 6, 8, 10mo (n=24) and at 12, 15 and 18mo (n=25). They were offered foods with different textures (smooth and rough purees, cooked and sticky pieces, raw and hard foods) at an earlier age than current practices in France. Infants' acceptance (the ability to process and swallow a food) and feeding skills (sucking and chewing) were expressed as probabilities (P). At 6mo, pureed textures wer…

L'efficacité masticatoire du jeune enfant permet-elle d'expliquer l'acceptabilité des aliments solides pendant la période de diversification alimentaire ?

Complementary feeding and "donner les bases du goût" (providing the foundation of taste). A qualitative approach to understand weaning practices, attitudes and experiences by French mothers

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666313003814; International audience; Complementary feeding (CF) practices vary within and across cultures but have been investigated only to a very limited extent. It is however important to understand CF practices and how they differ, as CF sets the foundation for children's later food choices. The present study was set out to examine practices, attitudes and experiences of CF including the introduction of vegetables amongst French mothers (n = 18, 25-39 years). Thematic analysis of transcribed focus groups and interviews revealed the perceived importance of the weaning period, as a critical milestone for infants' development but with …

For French mothers complementary feeding is a “taste journey"

Expert panel; International audience

Recent evidence on the development of eating habits until 3 years of age: food for thoughts

Recent evidence on the development of eating habits until 3 years of age: food for thoughts. 9. Pangborn sensory science symposium

Development of healthy eating habits early in life. Review of recent evidence and selected guidelines

Encouraging healthy eating habit development early in life is a way to prevent the onset of diet-related diseases. This review focuses on the period ranging from the beginning of complementary feeding until the age of 3 years. Its first objective was to review relevant themes in the most recent literature on the development of healthy eating habits in this period. Its second objective was to evaluate to what extent international and national feeding guidelines cover these themes. Analysed guidelines included WHO, European Network for Public Health Nutrition, US and two European national guidelines (UK and France). They were evaluated using a 4-pt scale and compared. Well-covered themes in c…