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Children Select Unhealthy Choices when Given a Choice among Snack Offerings

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, June 2014
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Title
Children Select Unhealthy Choices when Given a Choice among Snack Offerings
Published in
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, June 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.jand.2014.04.022
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Michael W. Beets, Falon Tilley, Rebecca Kyryliuk, Robert G. Weaver, Justin B. Moore, Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy

Abstract

Out-of-school-time programs serve snacks to millions of children annually. State and national snack policies endorse serving more-healthful options, such as fruits, yet often allow less-healthful options, such as cookies and chips, to be served simultaneously. To date, no studies have examined the choices children make when provided with disparate snack options in out-of-school-time programs. An experimental study with randomized exposures was conducted that exposed children (5 to 10 years old) to the following conditions: whole or sliced fruit; whole/sliced fruit, sugar-sweetened snacks (eg, cookies) and flavored salty (eg, nacho cheese-flavored tortilla chips) snacks; and whole/sliced fruit and less-processed/unflavored grain snacks (eg, pretzels), during a 2-week period representing 18 snack occasions (morning and afternoon) during summer 2013. The percentage of children who selected snacks, snack consumption, and percent of serving wasted were calculated and analyzed using repeated-measures analyses of variance with Bonferroni adjustments. A total of 1,053 observations were made. Sliced fruit was selected more than whole fruit across all conditions. Fruit (sliced or whole) was seldom selected when served simultaneously with sugar-sweetened (6% vs 58%) and flavored salty (6% vs 38%) snacks or unflavored grain snacks (23% vs 64%). More children consumed 100% of the sugar-sweetened (89%) and flavored salty (82%) snacks compared with fruit (71%); 100% consumption was comparable between fruit (59%) and unflavored grain snacks (49%). Approximately 15% to 47% of fruit was wasted, compared with 8% to 38% of sugar-sweetened, flavored salty, and unflavored grain snacks. Snack policies that encourage out-of-school-time programs to serve fruit require clear language that limits offering less-healthful snack options simultaneously.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 1%
Unknown 93 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 23%
Student > Bachelor 13 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 13%
Researcher 8 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 4%
Other 15 16%
Unknown 20 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 13%
Social Sciences 12 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 6%
Sports and Recreations 2 2%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 26 28%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 June 2023.
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#1,811,911
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Outputs from Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
#644
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#17,651
of 242,818 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
#9
of 36 outputs
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