New Foods Take Time, a Curriculum Designed to Promote Tasting and Liking of Fruits and Vegetables

The Pennsylvania State University (PENNSTATE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eating Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: New Foods Take Time

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04129372

STUDY00013066

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall objective of this project is to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the "New Foods Take Time" Intervention in Head Start preschool classrooms.

Full description

The overall objective of this project is to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the "New Foods Take Time" Intervention. This curriculum is designed to increase children's preference for and consumption of fruits and vegetables (FV) by encouraging children to try new FV and repeatedly taste these foods.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Child Inclusion Criteria:

• Enrolled in a Head Start preschool center
• Between the ages of 2 and 5 years old

Child Exclusion Criteria:

• Food allergy or restriction to foods in the tastings

Parent Inclusion Criteria:

• Parent or primary caregiver of a child enrolled in the study
• Age 18 years or older
• English speaking

Parent Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Teacher Inclusion Criteria:

• Actively employed as an early childhood education provider in the Head Start classroom where the intervention is delivered
• Age 18 years or older

Teacher Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

New Foods Take Time

Experimental group

Description:

Head Start classrooms will receive "New Foods Take Time", a series of five interactive weekly lessons designed to promote children's willingness to try new foods, particularly fruits and vegetables. Lessons will be delivered by nutrition educations. Children will also receive three tastings per week of the new foods discussed during the lessons.

Treatment:

Behavioral: New Foods Take Time