TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kröller, Katja
A1  - Kröller, Alexander
A1  - Warschburger, Petra
T1  - What do you like to eat? Correlation between food familiarity and actual preference
JF  - Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie
N2  - The preference for fruits and vegetables is the main predictor for the longtime healthy eating behavior. There are many factors which affect the development of food preferences. The familiarity with different foods seems to be a special aspect associated with the corresponding preference. To establish a preference for fruits and vegetables during early childhood, we need to know more about the factors that affect this preference development. So far, research has mostly concentrated on the food intake and less on the corresponding preference. Additionally, it is often based on studies of the mere-exposure effect or on older children and their ability to label fruits and vegetables correctly. Findings about the level of food familiarity in young children and its relation to the actual food preference are still missing. Our study focuses on different aspects of food familiarity as well as on their relationship to the child's preference and presents results from 213 children aged 2 to 10 years. Using standardized photos, the food preference was measured with a computer-based method that ran automatically without influence from parents or interviewer. The children knew fewer of the presented vegetables (66 %) than fruits or sweets (78 % each). About the same number of vegetables (63 %) had already been tasted by the children and were considered tasty. Only 48 % of the presented vegetables were named correctly - an ability that increases in older children. Concerning the relationship between the familiarity with vegetables and their preference, the different familiarity aspects showed that vegetables of lower preference were less often recognized, tasted, considered tasty, or named correctly.
KW  - food preference
KW  - familiarity
KW  - fruits and vegetables
KW  - children
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1026/0943-8149/a000089
SN  - 0943-8149
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
SP  - 53
EP  - 61
PB  - Hogrefe
CY  - Göttingen
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bukovinszky, Tibor
A1  - Helmsing, Nico R.
A1  - Grau, R. A.
A1  - Bakker, Elisabeth S.
A1  - Bezemer, T. Martijn
A1  - Vos, Matthijs
A1  - Uittenhout, H.
A1  - Verschoor, A. M.
T1  - A device to study the behavioral responses of zooplankton to food quality and quantity
JF  - Journal of insect behavior
N2  - In order to explore the behavioral mechanisms underlying aggregation of foragers on local resource patches, it is necessary to manipulate the location, quality and quantity of food patches. This requires careful control over the conditions in the foraging arena, which may be a challenging task in the case of aquatic resource-consumer systems, like that of freshwater zooplankton feeding on suspended algal cells. We present an experimental tool designed to aid behavioral ecologists in exploring the consequences of resource characteristics for zooplankton aggregation behavior and movement decisions under conditions where the boundaries and characteristics (quantity and quality) of food patches can be standardized. The aggregation behavior of Daphnia magna and D. galeata x hyalina was tested in relation to i) the presence or absence of food or ii) food quality, where algae of high or low nutrient (phosphorus) content were offered in distinct patches. Individuals of both Daphnia species chose tubes containing food patches and D. galeata x hyalina also showed a preference towards food patches of high nutrient content. We discuss how the described equipment complements other behavioral approaches providing a useful tool to understand animal foraging decisions in environments with heterogeneous resource distributions.
KW  - Foraging behavior
KW  - behavioral choice
KW  - food preference
KW  - Daphnia
KW  - flow-through vessel
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10905-012-9366-0
SN  - 0892-7553
VL  - 26
IS  - 4
SP  - 453
EP  - 465
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -