Vegetable variety: an effective strategy to increase vegetable choice in children
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Vegetable variety: an effective strategy to increase vegetable choice in children.
OBJECTIVE Most children do not meet the recommended intake of vegetables. Variety was identified as a potential factor to increase children's intake of these foods, as it was shown that variety was effective in improving meal composition in adults. Because younger children are suggested to be more responsive to internal satiation signals than to external food-related cues compared with adults, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Nutrition
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1368-9800,1475-2727
DOI: 10.1017/s1368980013002632