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FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION
卷 8, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.633807
关键词
texture preferences; plant foods; high; low fibre foods; overweight; BMI-for-age percentiles
资金
- University of Milan (Italy) Piano di Sviluppo Unimi project [2015-20117]
- Basque Government (Spain) through CM Programme (2017-2018 NUTRISEN project)
- Crown princess Margarets memorial foundation (Sweden)
- Academy of Finland [MS309408]
- Research Council of Norway
- Norwegian Fund for Research Fees for Agricultural Products (FFL) [233831/E50, NRC314318]
- Styrian Government (Austria), Section 8: Health, Care and Research, Division RD [ABT08-160762/2019-10]
The study revealed an association between fiber-associated foods and children's BMI at a cross-cultural level, with sex being an important determinant of fiber-associated food intake and the development of overweight in childhood. Intake of wholegrain foods was negatively correlated with BMI, while intake of legumes and white biscuits was positively correlated.
Plant foods, rich in fibre, can offer textures that children find difficult to orally manipulate, resulting in low preferences but are important for a healthy diet and prevention of overweight in children. Our aim was to investigate preferences for food texture, intake of fibre-associated foods and the relation to BMI. Three hundred thirty European children (9-12 years, 54% female) indicated their texture preferences using the Child-Food-Texture-Preference- Questionnaire (CFTPQ), and their parents responded on fibre-associated food consumption and anthropometric information. BMI was significantly lower for children with higher intake of wholegrain alternatives of common foods; in addition to being significantly influenced by country and the wearing of a dental brace. Overall BMI-for-age-percentiles (BMI_pct) were negatively associated with the consumption of wholegrain cereals, white pasta and wholemeal products and positively associated with the intake of legumes and white biscuits. In males, BMI_pct were negatively associated with wholegrain products and dried fruits, and in females, positively with legume consumption. A few country-related associations were found for BMI_pct and wholegrain biscuits, seeds and nuts and refined products. No overall correlation was found between BMI_pct and the texture preference of soft/hard foods by CFTPQ, except in Austria. We conclude that this study revealed evidence of a connection between fibre-associated foods and children's BMI at a cross-cultural level and that sex is an important determinant of fibre-associated food intake and the development of overweight in childhood.
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