title: Early determinants of food liking among 5y-old children: a longitudinal study from the EDEN mother-child cohort.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Identifying the determinants of child's liking for different foods may help to prevent future choices of unhealthy food.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To study early-life food-related characteristics associated with child's liking for different foods at 5y with a longitudinal study.
  
  
  METHODS
  1142 5y- old children completed a liking test for "fruit and vegetables", "meat, fish and eggs", desserts and cheese. Data related to maternal food intake before pregnancy, infant feeding during the first year of life, maternal feeding practices at 2y, child's food intake at 3y, and child's food neophobia from 1 to 4y were collected prospectively from the mother. The associations between these factors and child's liking for each category of foods were analyzed using structural equation modelling.
  
  
  RESULTS
  High food neophobia at 4 y was related to lower child's liking for all food groups. Maternal feeding practices at 2y were associated with liking for dessert: negatively for the practices allowing child to control his/her own food intake, positively for restriction of child's food intake for weight reasons. Moreover, child's food intake at 3y was positively associated with child's liking for "fruit and vegetables" as well as for cheese. Finally, adherence to the infant feeding pattern "long breastfeeding, later introduction of main meal components and use of home-made products" was positively associated with child's liking for meat/fish/eggs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  For all food groups, food neophobia was a common determinant of child's liking for food at 5y, whereas other factors were associated with food liking for specific food groups.
authors.affiliation: Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation (CSGA), CNRS, UMR6265, F-21000, Dijon, France.|Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation (CSGA), INRA, UMR1324, F-21000, Dijon, France.|Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation (CSGA), Bourgogne Franche-Comté University, F-21000, Dijon, France.
authors.forename: Wen Lun
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Paris-Ouest University, F-92001, Nanterre, France.
authors.forename: Natalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rigal
authors.affiliation: Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation (CSGA), CNRS, UMR6265, F-21000, Dijon, France.|Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation (CSGA), INRA, UMR1324, F-21000, Dijon, France.|Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation (CSGA), Bourgogne Franche-Comté University, F-21000, Dijon, France.
authors.forename: Sandrine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Monnery-Patris
authors.affiliation: Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation (CSGA), CNRS, UMR6265, F-21000, Dijon, France.|Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation (CSGA), INRA, UMR1324, F-21000, Dijon, France.|Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation (CSGA), Bourgogne Franche-Comté University, F-21000, Dijon, France.
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chabanet
authors.affiliation: Early ORigin of the Child's Health and Development Team (ORCHAD), Epidemiology and Biostatistics Sorbonne Paris Cité Center (CRESS), INSERM, UMR1153, F-75014, Paris, France.|Paris-Descartes University, F-75005, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Forhan
authors.affiliation: Early ORigin of the Child's Health and Development Team (ORCHAD), Epidemiology and Biostatistics Sorbonne Paris Cité Center (CRESS), INSERM, UMR1153, F-75014, Paris, France.|Paris-Descartes University, F-75005, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Marie-Aline
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Charles
authors.affiliation: Early ORigin of the Child's Health and Development Team (ORCHAD), Epidemiology and Biostatistics Sorbonne Paris Cité Center (CRESS), INSERM, UMR1153, F-75014, Paris, France. blandine.delauzon@inserm.fr.|Paris-Descartes University, F-75005, Paris, France. blandine.delauzon@inserm.fr.
authors.forename: Blandine
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: de Lauzon-Guillain
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002755:Choice Behavior; D004032:Diet; D004435:Eating; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers; D016487:Parenting; D010551:Personality; D010698:Phobic Disorders; D011247:Pregnancy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires