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Title: Food Neophobia in Children: A Case Study in Federal District/Brazil
Authors: De Almeida, Priscila Claudino
Nakano, Eduardo Yoshio
Vasconcelos, Ivana Aragão Lira
Zandonadi, Renata Puppin
Raposo, António
De Figueiredo Saraiva, Ariana Maria 
Alturki, Hmidan A.
Botelho, Raquel Braz Assunção
UNESCO Clasification: 3206 Ciencias de la nutrición
610101 Desordenes del comportamiento
Keywords: Child
Food neophobia
Prevalence
Issue Date: 2024
Journal: Nutrients 
Abstract: A reluctance to eat and/or avoidance of novel foods is characterized as food neophobia (FN). FN restricts the diet to familiar foods when, in fact, it should be much more varied. FN can be a barrier to healthy foods, affecting the quality of diet, and impairing children’s growth and development. Therefore, according to their caregivers’ perceptions, this study aimed to evaluate FN in children from Federal District/Brazil. The Brazilian Children’s Food Neophobia Questionnaire (BCFNeo), a specific instrument developed and validated in Brazil, was answered by caregivers of children aged 4 to 11 y/o. Sampling occurred through snowball recruitment, being convenient and non-probabilistic. The Health Sciences Ethics Committee approved the study. The analysis evaluated FN in total (BCFNeoTot) and in the following domains: general (FNgen), for fruits (FNfru), and for vegetables (FNveg). FN scores were compared between sex and child’s age and categorized according to three ordinal levels. FN levels were compared using the Mann–Whitney U test. The Friedman test, followed by the Wilcoxon test with Bonferroni correction, was performed to analyze differences in FN according to the environment. Of the caregivers’ answers for their children, 595 answers were included, because 19 were out of age. The prevalence of high FN was 42.9%. The domain with the highest prevalence of high FN was vegetables (48.6%). Children aged 8 to 11 y/o had a higher mean FN in two domains (FNgen p = 0.047 and FNveg p = 0.038) when compared to children aged 4 to 7 y/o. Boys were more neophobic in all domains (FNgen p = 0.017; FNfru p = 0.010; FNveg p = 0.013; BCFNeoTot p = 0.008), and FN tends not to decrease with age. The results showed that the children of the FD are more neophobic than Brazilian children in general, highlighting the importance of additional studies in FN determinants in this population and nutritional education interventions to reduce FN among FD children.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/134875
ISSN: 2072-6643
DOI: 10.3390/nu16172962
Source: Nutrients [ISSN 2072-6643], v. 16, n. 17, 2962, (Septiembre 2024
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