title: Stability and change in snack food likes and dislikes from 5 to 11 years.
abstract: Research on the development of snack food likes and dislikes from childhood to adolescence is limited. We investigated both the stability and the change in liking (i.e., "like", "neither like nor dislike", "dislike") and rank-order liking (i.e., liking one food more than others; e.g., "I like chocolate more than cookies") of snack foods from 5 to 11 years in non-Hispanic white girls. Liking of 10 palatable snack foods was assessed biennially. Girls' liking and rank-order liking of snack foods were modestly stable from age 5 to 11, and there was a tendency for initially disliked foods to become more liked.
authors.affiliation: Center for Childhood Obesity Research, The Pennsylvania State University, 129 Noll Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA. byr104@psu.edu
authors.forename: Brandi Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Rollins
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Loken
authors.forename: Leann L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Birch
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004435:Eating / Q000523:psychology*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010414:Pennsylvania