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Colour as a cue to eat : effects of plate colour on snack intake in pre-school children

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02/12/2019
Author
Carstairs, Sharon A
Caton, Samantha
Hetherington, Marion
Rolls, Barbara
Cecil, Joanne E.
Funder
BBSRC
Grant ID
BB/M027384/1
Keywords
Colour
Food intake
Children
Visual cue
Dishware
RA Public aspects of medicine
RJ Pediatrics
NDAS
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Abstract
Environmental cues, such as the colour of food and dishware, have been shown to influence food and drink consumption in adult populations. This proof of concept study investigated whether plate colour could be utilised as a strategy to reduce intake of high energy density (HED) snacks and increase intake of low energy density (LED) snacks in pre-school children. In a between and within-subjects design, children were randomly assigned to either a control group (no colour message) or intervention group (received a colour message: red = stop, green = go) and were provided a snack at nursery on three occasions on differently coloured plates (red, green, white), for each snack type (HED, LED). Snack intake, colour preference, colour association, and anthropometrics were recorded for each child. The results showed that there was no effect of group (control vs intervention) on HED (p=0.540) and LED intake (p=0.575). No effect of plate colour on HED (p=0.147) or LED snack intake (p=0.505) was evident. Combining red and green plates for a chromatic versus achromatic comparison showed that there was no significant effect of chromatic plate on HED (p=0.0503) and LED (p=0.347) intakes. Despite receiving a brief learning intervention, the use of plate colour was found in the present study to be an ineffective strategy to control snack food intake in pre-school aged children. Rather, we suggest that food intake in young children may best be predicted by portion size, energy density and eating behaviour traits
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Carstairs , S A , Caton , S , Hetherington , M , Rolls , B & Cecil , J E 2019 , ' Colour as a cue to eat : effects of plate colour on snack intake in pre-school children ' , Food Quality and Preference , vol. In press , 103862 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2019.103862
Publication
Food Quality and Preference
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2019.103862
ISSN
0950-3293
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2019.103862
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This work was supported by the BBSRC DRINC fund [grant number BB/M027384/1].
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21065

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