Pub Date : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2025.108386
Kai Ting Mok , Abdul Razak Nurliyana , Satvinder Kaur , Wan Ying Gan , See Ling Loy
Appetitive traits developed in infancy may influence dietary habits in later childhood. The impact of maternal eating behaviours (MEBs) and feeding practices remains unclear. This cross-sectional study examined the associations between MEBs, feeding practices, and appetitive traits of infants aged 1–6 months in Malaysia. A total of 256 mother-infant pairs were recruited from six government maternal and child health clinics in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires: the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ) to assess MEBs (emotional, external, and restrained eating); the Baby's Basic Needs Questionnaire (BBNQ) to evaluate feeding practices (feeding modes and feeding-to-soothe (FTS)); and the Baby Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (BEBQ) to measure infants' appetitive traits (food responsiveness, enjoyment of food, satiety responsiveness, slowness in eating, and general appetite). The mothers' mean age was 32.31 ± 4.45 years, and the infants' mean age was 3.73 ± 1.67 months. Food responsiveness of formula-fed infants (14.33 ± 4.82) was significantly lower than breastfed (17.99 ± 5.33). Restrained eating was significantly associated with higher satiety responsiveness (B = 0.206, 95 % CI = 0.022–0.099), and FTS was linked to increased food responsiveness (B = 0.334, 95 % CI = 0.116–0.241). These findings highlighted the associations between MEBs and FTS with infant appetitive traits. Longitudinal studies are needed to clarify these relationships and their long-term implications.
婴儿时期形成的食欲特征可能影响儿童后期的饮食习惯。产妇饮食行为（meb）和喂养方式的影响尚不清楚。本横断面研究检查了马来西亚1-6个月婴儿meb、喂养方法和食欲特征之间的关系。从吉隆坡和布城的六个政府妇幼保健诊所共招募了256对母婴。数据通过自我管理问卷收集：荷兰饮食行为问卷（DEBQ）评估meb（情绪性、外源性和克制性饮食）；婴儿基本需求问卷（BBNQ），用于评估喂养方式（喂养方式和喂养安抚（FTS））；以及婴儿饮食行为问卷（BEBQ）来测量婴儿的食欲特征（食物反应、食物享受、饱腹反应、进食缓慢和总体食欲）。母亲平均年龄32.31±4.45岁，婴儿平均年龄3.73±1.67个月。配方奶喂养婴儿的食物反应性（14.33±4.82）明显低于母乳喂养婴儿（17.99±5.33）。克制进食与高饱腹感反应显著相关（B = 0.206, 95% CI = 0.022-0.099）， FTS与食物反应性增加相关（B = 0.334, 95% CI = 0.116-0.241）。这些发现强调了meb和FTS与婴儿食欲特征之间的联系。需要进行纵向研究来澄清这些关系及其长期影响。
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Adolescents are increasingly moving away from the Mediterranean Diet (MD), raising concerns for their long-term health. Since adolescence is crucial for shaping eating habits, school-based interventions offer an opportunity to promote healthier choices. Nutrition and sensory education can influence food attitudes and behaviors, but their combined effects are not well understood. This study tested school-based nutrition and sensory education programs, alone or combined, with daily exposure to a healthy, unfamiliar snack, on Italian adolescents’ food knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour. A total of 197 students (aged 14–17) were assigned to one of four groups: Control, Nutrition, Sensory, or Nutrition and Sensory. Over four weeks, participants received targeted lessons and were offered a healthy snack each day. Data were collected at baseline, post-intervention, and at a two-month follow-up. Key outcomes included nutritional knowledge, adherence to the MD (KIDMED), food neophobia, picky eating, food choices, and acceptance of healthy snacks. Nutrition education improved nutritional knowledge and the ability to identify MD foods, with partial retention at follow-up. However, daily dietary habits showed little changes. Sensory education increased snack consumption and willingness to try unfamiliar foods. No significant changes were observed in food neophobia or picky eating. These findings highlight the value of integrating diverse, experience-based strategies into school settings to support the development of food knowledge and healthier food choices in adolescence.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2025.108387
Sujan Dhungel , Ammar Abdul Aziz , Uttam Khanal , Rajendra Adhikari
With rising household incomes and increasing health awareness, consumers are exhibiting a growing preference for quality food with safety attributes. However, the extent to which consumers value food safety and quality attributes and how relevant information influences their purchasing behaviour has not been widely evaluated, particularly in developing countries such as Nepal. This study aims to analyse the preferences, willingness to pay and relative importance of various safety and quality attributes for making choice decisions among Nepalese milk consumers. This study employed a discrete choice experiment, which involved 401 participants in Kathmandu. A multinomial logit model, random parameter logit model and latent class model were utilised to examine preference heterogeneity, focusing on five key attributes: place of production, good manufacturing practices labelling, fat content, packaging material and price. The results indicated that all five attributes were significant in informing participants' purchase decisions. Consumers demonstrated a marked preference for good manufacturing practices labelled milk, with a willingness to pay a 42.78 % premium relative to conventional milk. Additionally, consumers expressed a positive valuation for domestically produced milk and milk packaged in plastic jars. We identified two distinct consumer segments, "Food safety-conscious consumers" and "Budget-conscious consumers". This study provides strong empirical evidence of the evolving preferences of Nepalese milk consumers towards food safety and quality attributes. In response to these evolving consumer demands, policymakers and dairy industry stakeholders should prioritise the production of milk that is safe, high in quality, and securely packaged, while also ensuring transparent and credible communication to build consumer trust.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-14DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2025.108384
David J. Bridgett , Sheryl O. Hughes , Matthew Broussard , Daniela McCourt , Christina M. Croce , Jennifer O. Fisher
Appetite self-regulation (ASR) among children is thought to have a fundamental role in shaping the development of healthy eating behaviors, dietary intake, and growth during childhood. Parallel to developmental frameworks for understanding “general” self-regulation among children, ASR has been described as involving children's use of “top-down” cognitive processes to moderate “bottom-up” biological drives around food approach and avoidance in the interest of achieving desired eating behaviors or outcomes. Whereas bottom-up ASR processes during early childhood are well characterized, particularly in the context of dysregulation and obesity risk, the role of top-down ASR processes in the development of healthy eating behaviors is virtually unstudied. The purpose of this narrative review is to bring together diverse research literatures in developmental psychology, food parenting, and ingestive behavior to articulate a role for top-down ASR in the development of healthy eating behaviors in early childhood and highlight putative socialization influences. We draw from a large literature on executive functioning in children to articulate how top-down ASR may be recruited in the service of achieving desired eating outcomes and draw from the developmental literature to highlight the potential avenues of socialization for top-down ASR processes.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-14DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2025.108382
Aishwarya Padmanabhan , Simon Stankoski , Filip Panchevski , Rhiannon M. Armitage , Sophia Cox , Claire Baert , Borjan Sazdov , Mia Darkovska , Ivana Kiprijanovska , Mohsen Fatoorechi , Bojan Sofronievski , Elena Indovska , Angela Nikodinovska , Stefani Kulebanova , Andrew Cleal , Martin Gjoreski , Tatum Sevenoaks , Charles Nduka , Hristijan Gjoreski , Martin R. Yeomans
We investigated the potential of OCOsense™ smart glasses to monitor eating and support behaviour change in everyday life. Twenty-three volunteers (14 women, 7 men and 2 non-binary individuals) wore the glasses for 7 h/day, at least five days/week for three weeks. To establish a baseline, in week one, participants wore the glasses with minimal intervention; in week two, they annotated each eating event and photographed their food to evaluate detection accuracy. In week three, participants responded to real-time notifications confirming whether eating was occurring when sensed by the glasses, and received haptic feedback (i.e., glasses vibration) prompting them to either chew more slowly, chew more per mouthful or take longer pauses between bites. Based on sensed chewing, the glasses algorithm detected 476/498 eating events logged in week two (F1-score 0.89), and 528/548 real-time events in week three (F1-score 0.91). To assess food detection accuracy, 598 images (1036 items) were analysed by an algorithm and compared to manual inspection. The algorithm correctly identified 919/1036 items. Compared to baseline, those aiming to change their behaviour: 1) reduced chewing rate (1.63–1.57 chews/sec), while others increased slightly (1.70–1.73); 2) increased chews per bite (22.0–22.8), which declined in others (22.8–19.5); and 3) lengthened breaks between bite (4.69–5.33 s), while others shortened theirs (5.16–4.85 s). Overall, this study demonstrates that OCOsense glasses can detect when and what people eat in everyday life and that feedback delivered by the glasses has the potential to support behaviour change.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2025.108383
Charlotte M. Wright , Antonina Mutoro , Beatrice Milligan , Amara Khan , Victor Alfonso , Ada L. Garcia
Purpose
The International Complementary Feeding Evaluation tool (ICFET) is a new tool that provides a standardised description of caregiver feeding and child eating behaviour and diet in young children. It is designed to be relevant to undernutrition in low- and-middle-income countries (LMICs) and to be valid in multiple languages. This paper aims to describe the full content of the ICFET and its performance in various settings, cross-sectionally and longitudinally.
Method
ICFETs were completed by parents of 473 children aged 6–24 months in the UK, Kenya, Pakistan, and Guatemala. Repeated ICFETs were obtained for 62 children starting treatment for moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) in Kenya and Pakistan.
Findings
Solids were started much earlier in the UK than other countries; in Kenya and Pakistan self-feeding was less, and force feeding more common than in Guatemala and the UK. In the LMIC samples only 23 % children were eating foods from 5/8 of the recommended food groups daily. In the MAM treatment centres, Avidity was low: Kenya mean Z scores (SD) −1.76 (0.9); Pakistan −2.79 (0.9); and food refusal high: Kenya 0.77 (1.3), Pakistan 1.53 (0.9) compared to healthy UK infants; both showed moderate to good stability over time (Kenya Avidity Spearman's r = 0.517, p = 0.023 Refusal r = 0.557, p = 0.013; Pakistan Avidity r = 0.959, p < 0.001; Refusal 0.462 p = 0.002), suggesting that they are capturing enduring appetitive characteristics.
Conclusions
The ICFET provides valid eating and feeding behaviour measures which track within children over time, as well as a range of useful contextual measures of diet in the complementary feeding period.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-12DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2025.108381
Marcin Rzeszutek , Joanna Kowalkowska , Magdalena Grabowska , Małgorzata Dragan , Maja Lis-Turlejska , Katarzyna Schier , Małgorzata Styśko-Kunkowska , Ewa Malinowska , Tomasz Osiński , Kamilla Bargiel-Matusiewicz , Barbara Sosińska , Maria Ibisz , Saadat Almazova , Marcin Bagiński , Szymon Szumiał
Adverse and positive childhood experiences (ACEs and PCEs, respectively) are known to influence various health-related outcomes in adulthood, including eating behaviors. Emotional eating is considered a maladaptive eating style, whereas intuitive eating is perceived as an adaptive one. Understanding how ACEs and PCEs relate to these eating styles could inform targeted interventions. This study investigated the relationship between the types of ACEs and PCEs and eating styles (emotional and intuitive eating) among a national sample of Polish adults (n = 2231). ACEs were assessed using the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire and PCEs using the Benevolent Childhood Experiences Scale. The two eating styles were also assessed: maladaptive (emotional eating) via the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ-13) and adaptive (intuitive eating) via the Intuitive Eating Scale-2 (IES-2). Network analysis revealed that emotional eating was positively associated with three ACEs: sexual abuse, unmet basic needs (e.g., access to food) and a lack of family love. However, emotional eating style was not associated with any PCEs. Intuitive eating was positively associated with three PCEs: comforting beliefs, fun activities, and self-acceptance. Similarly, intuitive eating was not associated with any ACEs. Body mass index (BMI) was positively associated with emotional eating and negatively associated with intuitive eating. Our findings suggest that PCEs and ACEs are independent predictors of opposing eating styles in adulthood. The results of this study can contribute to the development of effective interventions to promote the physical and mental well-being of adults.
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{"title":"Maternal overweight during the (Pre)pregnancy period and the development of disordered eating behaviors in adolescent offspring: Investigating the role of amygdala volume and BMI in childhood","authors":"V.C. Eikema , R.E. Wiegel , L.T.E. Kloppenborg , T.J.H. White , R.P.M. Steegers-Theunissen , P.W. Jansen","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.108380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.108380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":"218 ","pages":"Article 108380"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145501373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retraction notice to “The only constant is change: Stable vs. variable aspects of food approach bias relate differently to food craving and intake” [Appetite 204 (2025) 107726]","authors":"Hannah van Alebeek, Mareike Röttger, Sercan Kahveci, Jens Blechert, Matthias Burkard Aulbach","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.108377","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.108377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":"217 ","pages":"Article 108377"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145476505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2025.108378
Cinja Jostock, Alice O'Hagan, Rachel Pechey
Population diets need to become healthier and more sustainable to limit their negative effects on health and environment. This study assessed the effect of a positioning intervention, in isolation and in combination with a labelling intervention, on the a) healthiness and b) environmental sustainability of food choices in an experimental online supermarket. Participants (n = 2220) were randomly assigned to one of five trials groups (control; healthier items shown earlier (“health position”); health position & nutri-score labels; environmentally sustainable products shown earlier (“eco position”); eco position & ecolabels) and completed a shopping task in an experimental online supermarket. Linear regressions showed that compared to control, mean scaled nutri-scores of shopping baskets were significantly lower (healthier) for health position (−2.30; 95 %CI: −3.07, −1.52) and health position & labels (−2.50; 95 %CI: −3.28, −1.72), with no significant difference between health position and health position & labels (−0.20; 95 %CI: −0.66, 0.25). The mean eco scores of shopping baskets were significantly reduced (more sustainable) for eco position (−24 %; 95 %CIs: −15 %, −31 %) and eco position & labels (−30 %; 95 % CIs: −22 %, 37 %) compared to control. The eco position & labels group had significantly lower mean eco scores (−8 %; 95 % CIs: −2 %, −14 %) compared to eco position. The positioning intervention improved health and environmental sustainability of food selections in an experimental online supermarket, with less robust evidence for a small additional effect of adding labels. There was no suggestion that adding labels that potentially make the positioning intervention more salient had any backfire effects.
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