Co-creation of a healthy dairy product with and for children

Children's involvement in new product development may contribute to ensure that healthy alternatives meet their wants and needs. Co-creation is a potential approach bridge the world of child grown-up developer. In this context, objective present work was explore co-creation with children develop dairy product. A total 52 school-aged (54% girls, 6–13 year old) recruited from an after-school club Montevideo (Uruguay) participated workshops. Two sessions were carried out. first session, developed using set ingredients proposed strategies promote Children showed high level engagement during activity provided actionable ideas for development. Three key factors drove formulation (familiarity, hedonics, healthiness), whereas common communication by participants products. second evaluated four products researchers based on children’s ideas. The overall liking scores (5.9 7.9) despite inclusion novel lower sugar content compared similar commercial available Uruguayan marketplace. These results show involving Considering lack published studies regarding use approaches food domain, provides useful insights implementation innovative children.