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Visual Familiarity & Vegetable Picture Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>

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Research led by Professor Carmel Houston-Price has been particularly interested in the role of visual familiarity and food neophobia (food fussiness) in preschool children.<\/p>\n

To investigate visual familiarity the research team created and tested how vegetable picture books would help change children\u2019s behaviour toward vegetables, particularly comparing vegetables they were familiar with and those which they were not familiar with.<\/p>\n

Over a number of studies Professor Houston-Price and her team have shown that reading a picture book over a two week period increases a pre-school child\u2019s willingness and consumption of eating a vegetable, particularly for vegetables that children are not familiar with before reading a picture book. For more information about the research studies access the academic papers below.<\/p>\n

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  1. Houston-Price, C., Butler, L., & Shiba, P. (2009). Visual exposure impacts on toddlers\u2019 willingness to taste fruits and vegetables.\u00a0Appetite<\/i>,\u00a053<\/i>(3), 450\u2013453. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.appet.2009.08.012<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Heath, P., Houston-Price, C., & Kennedy, O. (2014). Let\u2019s look at leeks! Picture books increase toddlers\u2019 willingness to look at, taste and consume unfamiliar vegetables.\u00a0Frontiers in psychology<\/i>,\u00a05<\/i>, 191.<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Owen, L. H., Kennedy, O. B., Hill, C., & Houston-Price, C. (2018). Peas, please! Food familiarization through picture books helps parents introduce vegetables into pre-schoolers\u2019 diets.\u00a0Appetite<\/i>,\u00a0128<\/i>, 32-43.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In 2019-2020 the research team participated in the\u00a0See & Eat project funded by an EU initiative (EIT-Food).<\/strong>\u00a0This project aimed to explore whether visual familiarity effects could be found from the use of ebooks and whether the effects shown in UK families could be found in Italian (2019) and Polish (2020) families.<\/p>\n

    For a summary into why ebooks may be an effective healthy eating intervention see the paper published in the Nutrition Bulletin, link below.<\/p>\n

    Dulay, K. M., Masento, N. A., Harvey, K., Messer, D. J., & Houston\u2010Price, C. (2020). Me and my veggies: The use of interactive, personalised picture books in healthy eating interventions.\u00a0Nutrition Bulletin<\/i>,\u00a045<\/i>(1), 51-58.<\/a><\/p>\n

    To find out more about See & Eat Project check out our\u00a0Projects page<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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    Family Mealtime Interventions<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>

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    Recent research examining family mealtimes has involved the development of an email programme to encourage \u2018Healthy Happy Family Eating\u2019, funded by Netmums, the parenting organisation. We have also investigated the role of parents\u2019 feeding goals in mealtimes. This work has included the development of a tool to measure parents\u2019 family mealtime goals which has open access publication and is available here<\/a> for researchers to use. Ongoing research is investigating family conflict and family mealtimes, mealtime stress and goal conflict in mealtime decision making.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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    Healthy Eating Game Interventions<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>

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    Food Insecurity<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>

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