title: Nutrition trends during 150 years of children's cookbooks.
abstract: This paper identifies trends in children's cookbooks for nutrition messages, cultural content, and food themes according to food guidance of the time. Except for those developed in government-sponsored nutrition programs since the 1970s, children's cookbooks seemingly have a preponderance of high-calorie dessert and party/fun recipes and limited vegetable recipes. In the past 150 years, the science of nutrition has grown from a focus on nitrogen to one on multiple nutrients and their interrelationships. Foods in the market have diversified in number and form, and a children's nutrition specialty has been introduced and expanded in many dimensions-including in the publishing of children's books. Because children's early food choices influence both their growth and health, factors impacting food choices need to receive more attention.
authors.affiliation: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. hertzler@charter.net
authors.forename: Ann A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Hertzler
mesh_terms: D001877:Books / Q000266:history*; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D003296:Cooking / Q000266:history*; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005518:Food Preferences; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans