When choosing snacks, your child is wiser than your mother? 【foodaily】

new study refutes the traditional notion that children choose snacks. The conventional idea is that children are reluctant to accept healthy foods and prefer foods that are high in sugar and fat.
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iStockfound that mothers underestimate their children's acceptance of healthy food. Children choose even more healthy food than mothers.the study, published in the journal
Journal of Economic Psychology
, researchers from
Paris-Saclay
University found that mothers gave their children far less choice of healthy foods than their children did.addition, children choose more kinds of healthy food for their mothers than they choose for themselves.the study refutes traditional beliefs about children's snack choices. The conventional belief is that children are reluctant to accept healthy foods and prefer foods high in sugar and fat.parents control their children's eating habits through their eating behavior or by restricting their children's ability to buy unhealthy foods.a broader perspective, nutrition education in public institutions is also a direct way to change people's eating habits.it is important to understand food choices as children, because eating habits are difficult to change and can have long-term effects on weight and health.study details







study, lollipops were considered an unhealthy food.
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iStock112 pairs of
(female
for this study. The average age of the child
10.05
years, including
55
girls and
57
boys.each mother and child will receive a
45
-minute meeting to select relatively healthy foods (a bottle of stewed apples) and relatively unhealthy foods (lollipops).everyone was asked to fill four clear bags, each containing
5
foods, including healthy and unhealthy foods., the nutritional message is read out aloud by the speaker. After continuing to pack a bag of food for themselves, the participants began to pack a bag of food for the rest of the family.the first
the
, mothers chose very much healthy food for themselves, while less healthy food for their children, the study said.
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Instead, the second results showed that children chose very much healthy food for their mothers and less for themselves.
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After reading out the nutritional message, the children chose almost the same amount of healthy food for themselves and for their mother.
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indulgent
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participants and paternal participants were limited, especially the limited text that could be used to describe them. researchers found that parents tended to balance (which foods are healthy for their children) and
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preferences
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(which foods children prefer) in terms of guessing expectations about what foods their children like. children's choices biased? Studies have shown that children are more likely than their mothers to

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nutritional information.
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nutritional information. Children reacted more clearly to nutritional information than they did before getting nutritional information
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, even if they were less indulgent than their mothers.
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nutritional information reduces differences in dietary behavior between mothers and children, although there are still few differences. Nutritional information allows family members
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come together again'
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