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Chemosensory reactivity and food neophobia in preschool children: impact of smell, but not of taste

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Context and objective: Recent studies suggested that sensory sensitivity could be linked to food neophobia, described as the reluctance to eat, or the avoidance of, new foods. The objective of the present study was twofold. Firstly, this study aimed at assessing the links between smell reactivity and taste reactivity in children. Secondly, this study assessed the links between children’s smell/taste reactivity and food neophobia. The hypothesis was that the higher the chemosensory reactivity of the child, the more the child is neophobic. Method: One hundred and three dyads of mother-child, from the Opaline cohort, were involved. The child’s food neophobia was assessed using a validated parent-administered questionnaire (Rigal et al, 2012) when the child was 22 months. The children’s taste reactivity was assessed at 20 months, using an experimental design described in Schwartz et al. (2009), based on the variance of intake scores obtained for 5 tastes. The children’s smell reactivity was assessed at 22 months, using an experimental design described in Wagner et al. (2013), based on the variance of mouthing scores obtained for 4 bottles bearing pleasant food odours and 4 bottles bearing unpleasant food odours. Results: Kendall correlation analyses indicated no significant association between smell reactivity and taste reactivity in children (tau=0.06, p=0.46). Significant correlations were reported between smell reactivity and children’s neophobia score (tau=0.12, p=0.04), but not between taste reactivity and children’s neophobia score (tau=0.04, p=0.29). Discussion: These results suggest that smell reactivity and taste reactivity are differently associated with children’s neophobia. This study highlights that neophobic children are more responsive to smell cues than less neophobic children, but neophobic children seem not to react differently to taste cues than less neophobic children. References: Schwartz, C., Issanchou, S., & Nicklaus, S. (2009). Developmental changes in the acceptance of the five basic tastes in the first year of life. British Journal of Nutrition, 102(9), 1375-1385. Wagner, S., Issanchou, S., Chabanet, C., Marlier, L., Schaal, B., & Monnery-Patris, S. (2013). Infants’ hedonic responsiveness to food odours: a longitudinal study during and after weaning (8, 12 and 22 months). Flavour, 2, 19. doi: 10.1186/2044-7248-2-19.
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hal-01579305 , version 1 (30-08-2017)

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Sandrine Monnery-Patris, Sandra Wagner, Natalie Rigal, Camille Schwartz, Claire Chabanet, et al.. Chemosensory reactivity and food neophobia in preschool children: impact of smell, but not of taste. 6. european conference on sensory and consumer research: a sense of life, Sep 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark. 1 p. ⟨hal-01579305⟩
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