NCT01557218

Increasing the Variety of Vegetables and Fruits Served to Preschool Children at a Snack

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 61 (actual)
• Sponsor: Penn State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Intake of vegetables and fruits in preschool children is less than recommended amounts. Although offering a variety of foods has been shown to increase intake, this effect has not been well studied for low-energy-dense foods. The purpose of this study was to test whether increasing the variety of vegetables and fruits served to preschool children affected the amount eaten. The hypotheses were that increasing the variety of vegetables and fruits would increase both the amount selected and the amount eaten.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Feeding Behaviors

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Cucumber snack	Three 300-g bowls of vegetables per table: three of cucumber slices
OTHER	Pepper snack	Three 300-g bowls of vegetables per table: three of yellow pepper strips
OTHER	Tomato snack	Three 300-g bowls of vegetables per table: three of grape tomatoes
OTHER	Vegetable variety snack	Three 300-g bowls of vegetables per table: one each of cucumber slices, pepper strips, and grape tomatoes
OTHER	Apple snack	Three 300-g bowls of fruits per table: three of apple wedges
OTHER	Peach snack	Three 300-g bowls of fruits per table: three of peach slices
OTHER	Pineapple snack	Three 300-g bowls of fruits per table: three of pineapple half-rings
OTHER	Fruit variety snack	Three 300-g bowls of fruits per table: of each of apple wedges, peach slices, and pineapple half-rings

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-04-01
• Completion: 2011-05-01
• First posted: 2012-03-19
• Last updated: 2013-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States