Journal
FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
Volume 154, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2022.111000
Keywords
Co-creation; Children; Healthy food; Idea generation; Online community; Focus group
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Funding
- European Union [764985]
- Norwegian Fund for Research Fees for Agricultural Products (FFL) through the project FoodForFuture [314318]
- Comision Sectorial de Investigacion Cientifica and Espacio Interdisciplinario (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
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To address nutrition issues like obesity, involving children in the development of healthy food products is valuable. This exploratory study assessed a method for idea generation through co-creation, comparing creative focus groups (CFG) and an online community (ONL). The results showed that pre-adolescents can create new food product ideas using this process, with CFG facilitating teamwork and producing detailed and mostly actionable ideas, while ONL focused on individual preferences.
To tackle current nutritional issues like obesity, it could be valuable to involve children in the development of healthy food products that they will actively chose and enjoy. The aims of the present exploratory study were (i) to assess a methodology for early-stage idea generation through co-creation, for the development of healthy snacks with pre-adolescents, and (ii) to compare two settings, creative focus groups (CFG) and an online community (ONL). Three steps were defined to allow the gradual exploration of the topic and mutual learning throughout the process: (1) Show &Tell: photo taking and-elicitation to understand what children ate; (2) Reflect: a sorting task of the pictures to discuss and reflect on snacking practices (3) Create: an idea generation step, in which a newspaper article describing an idea for a new healthy snack was created. To increase engagement and creativity, gamification strategies were used. Our results demonstrated that children (preadolescents) can create new food product ideas with the proposed process, using enabling and creative techniques. In the CFG the trained moderator could steer the group to the co-creation goal. The setting facilitated teamwork and group learning, collaborative ideas considering preferences of peers and produced a few detailed and mostly actionable ideas. In the ONL less control over the process was possible. The setting produced many ideas varying in the degree of detail and actionability focusing on individual preferences. The feedback and observations from our study, particularly in the CFG setting, implied that the creative approach was highly engaging for participants. Further research is necessary to assess the potential of initial ideas developed by pre-adolescents.
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