Digital Media Use in Association with Sensory Taste Preferences in European Children and Adolescents—Results from the I.Family Study

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on behalf of the I.Family Consortia¹  Toomas Veidebaum²  Lucia Reisch³  Dénes Molnár⁴  Valeria Pala⁵  Lauren Lissner⁶  Stefaan De Henauw⁷  Luis A. Moreno⁸  Alfonso Siani⁹  Hannah Jilani^1,10  Elida Sina^1,10  Christoph Buck^1,10  Wolfgang Ahrens^1,10  Antje Hebestreit^1,10  Antonia Solea^1,11 

[1] ;Department of Chronic Diseases, National Institute for Health Development, 11619 Tallinn, Estonia;Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark;Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, University of Pécs, 7623 Pécs, Hungary;Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, 20133 Milan, Italy;Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden;Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) Research Group, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón (IIS Aragón), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain;Institute of Food Sciences, National Research Council, 83100 Avellino, Italy;Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, 28359 Bremen, Germany;Research and Education Institute of Child Health, 2035 Strovolos, Cyprus;

关键词: food preference;    internet;    smartphone;    screen-time;    digital marketing;    I.Family study;   

DOI  :  10.3390/foods10020377

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Digital media (DM) influences children’s food choice. We aim to investigate associations between DM use and taste preferences (TP) for sweet, fatty, bitter, and salty in European children and adolescents. Individuals aged 6–17 years (N = 7094) providing cross-sectional data for DM use: television (TV), computer/game console (PC), smartphone and internet, were included. Children (6 to <12 years) and adolescents (≥12 years) completed a Food and Beverage Preference Questionnaire; scores were calculated for sweet, fatty, salty and bitter preference and categorized (high vs. low). Logistic regression was used to calculate odds ratios as association measures between DM exposure and TP. On average, individuals used media for 2.4 h/day (SD = 1.7). Increasing exposures to DM were associated positively with sweet, fatty and salty TP, while inversely with bitter preference. In female adolescents, DM exposure for >2 h/day was associated with sweet (OR = 1.27, 95% CI = 1.02–1.57) and fatty preference (OR = 1.37; 95% CI = 1.10–1.70). Internet exposure was inversely associated with bitter preference, notably in male adolescents (OR = 0.65, 95% CI = 0.50–0.84), but positively associated with salty preference (OR = 1.29, 95% CI = 1.02–1.64). DM exposure was associated with sweet, fatty, salty and bitter TP in children and adolescents, serving as the basis for future longitudinal studies to shed light on the underlying mechanism by which DM exposure may determine eating habits.

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