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US: Sugar makes vegetables more palatable for children
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has come up with an unusual way to encourage children to eat their vegetables - adding sugar.
"A major question is how to get people to eat more fruits and vegetables," comments Paul Breslin of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. "Any research efforts that accomplish that are to be praised."
There have been many such efforts, but not a deal of success and, whilst consumption of fruit has increased vegetables have pretty much stagnated.
Valerie Duffy, a dietician and researcher at the University of Connecticut, came up with the idea of sweetening vegetables to make them more palatable to young people.
Duffy said that tests show children altering their perception of flavours in vegetables and, foods usually seen as bitter became more desirable.
In this study, funded by the American Diabetes Association, researchers offered kids two servings of the same vegetable. In a double-blinded experiment, they lightly misted one serving with plain water and the other with a dilute solution of aspartame. Two out of three kids preferred the vegetables that had been sweetened. When the team served some kids the lightly sweetened vegetables for a month, they ate slightly more vegetables. One reason that consumption might not have been higher, given the increased appeal, is the other food on the plates, Duffy said. It could be that the kids filled up on pizza or chicken nuggets before turning to the veggies.
Duffy said the sweetener should not be of concern to parents as only small quantities are involved. She also suggested that, once better eating habits are established the sweetener can be removed.
Source: sciencemagcom
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has come up with an unusual way to encourage children to eat their vegetables - adding sugar.
"A major question is how to get people to eat more fruits and vegetables," comments Paul Breslin of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. "Any research efforts that accomplish that are to be praised."
There have been many such efforts, but not a deal of success and, whilst consumption of fruit has increased vegetables have pretty much stagnated.
Valerie Duffy, a dietician and researcher at the University of Connecticut, came up with the idea of sweetening vegetables to make them more palatable to young people.
Duffy said that tests show children altering their perception of flavours in vegetables and, foods usually seen as bitter became more desirable.
In this study, funded by the American Diabetes Association, researchers offered kids two servings of the same vegetable. In a double-blinded experiment, they lightly misted one serving with plain water and the other with a dilute solution of aspartame. Two out of three kids preferred the vegetables that had been sweetened. When the team served some kids the lightly sweetened vegetables for a month, they ate slightly more vegetables. One reason that consumption might not have been higher, given the increased appeal, is the other food on the plates, Duffy said. It could be that the kids filled up on pizza or chicken nuggets before turning to the veggies.
Duffy said the sweetener should not be of concern to parents as only small quantities are involved. She also suggested that, once better eating habits are established the sweetener can be removed.
Source: sciencemagcom
Publication date: 2/19/2013
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