Authors
Hitomi Ando, Kaori Kinouchi, Tomoko Okayama, Satomi Hara, Hitomi Kanekasu, Hiroko Watanabe
Published in
Nutrition and health. Pages 2601060261490174. Sep 21, 2026. Epub Sep 21, 2026.
Abstract
BackgroundTaste perception plays a key role in shaping children's food choices and eating behaviors.AimThis exploratory quasi-experimental study aimed to examine the effects of a taste-based, school-home collaborative nutrition education program on children's taste perception and eating behaviors.MethodsThis study involved 64 fourth- and fifth-grade children and their parents who were assigned to either the intervention (n = 32) or control (n = 32) groups. For 6 months, the intervention group received newsletters about taste, healthy food, and dietary intake, as well as taste test results and individualized feedback on their dietary intake. The control group did not receive any intervention. We collected data on children's taste perception, eating behaviors, self-efficacy, dietary intake, and parental healthy eating literacy pre- and post-intervention. Data were analyzed using paired t-tests, pre-post comparisons, and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA).SummaryAn improvement in children's taste perception was observed in the intervention group in the pre-post comparisons, but no significant effects on taste perception or eating behaviors were observed using ANCOVA. By contrast, baseline parental healthy eating literacy was significantly associated with children's eating behaviors. These findings suggest that promoting healthy eating behaviors in children may require not only taste-based nutrition education but also sustained comprehensive approaches that include improving parents' healthy eating literacy and strengthening school-home collaboration.
PMID:
42765860
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