TY  - JOUR
AB  - The dietary awareness of primary school children towards selected
food items and components including bread, potatoes, dairy products,
fat, fish, meat, fresh fruit, salt, sugar and sweets was evaluated using
an interview technique. The children were asked whether they ought to
eat more, the same or less of each food and the results are presented
for the sample of younger and older children. The results indicate that
these selected food items can be broken down into three main areas.
First there are those where the majority of children thought we ought to
increase consumption; bread, potatoes, dairy products, fish, meat and
fresh fruit. Second there is a group of food components including salt,
fat and sugar in which there is closer similarity in those advocating
more or less consumption. Third there are the food products such as
sweets where there are significant differences between age groups, and
changes in attitude occur in a limited age span. A discussion of the
implications of this work for nutrition education, new food product
development and socio‐economic policy is presented together with
recommendations for future research.
VL  - 93
IS  - 6
SN  - 0007-070X
DO  - 10.1108/EUM0000000002348
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000002348
AU  - Tilston C.H.
AU  - Gregson K.
AU  - Neale R.J.
AU  - Douglas C.J.
PY  - 1991
Y1  - 1991/01/01
TI  - Dietary Awareness of Primary School Children
T2  - British Food Journal
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 25
EP  - 29
Y2  - 2024/05/12
ER  -