Parents’ cooking skills confidence reduce children’s consumption of ultra-processed foods

This 2019 study explored how often Brazilian adolescents eat meals with their parents using the data from the Brazilian National Survey of School Health. The objective of this study was to better understand the connection between eating food with parents and diet quality. Martins et al. asked how often the Brazilian students (age range 11 […]

This 2019 study theorizes that child inclusion in meal planning and preparation by their parents may help increase their vegetable consumption. This concept is based on the ‘IKEA effect’, which assumes that individuals like self-created objects more than objects created by someone else. Radtke et al. also investigate whether this relationship between child participation and […]