Association of infant feeding patterns with taste preferences in European children and adolescents [Elektronisk resurs] A retrospective latent profile analysis

• The aim was to investigate associations between the duration of infant feeding practices (FP) and taste preferences (TP) in European children and adolescents. A total of 5526 children (6-16 years old) of the I.Family study completed a Food and Beverage Preference Questionnaire to measure their preferences for sweet, fatty and bitter tastes. Mothers retrospectively reported the FPs duration in months: exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), exclusive formula milk feeding (EFMF), combined breastfeeding (BF&FMF) and the age at the introduction of complementary foods (CF). Using logistic regression analyses and latent class analysis (latent profiles of FP and CF were identified), we explored associations between profiles and TP, adjusting for various covariates, including the Healthy Diet Adherence Score (HDAS). A total of 48% of children had short durations of EBF (≤4 months) and BF&FMF (≤6 months) and were introduced to CF early (<6 months). No significant relationship was observed between the single FPs and TP, even when considering common profiles of FP. HDAS was inversely associated with sweet and fatty TP, but positively with bitter TP. Contrary to our hypotheses, we did not observe associations between FP and children’s TP later in life. Further studies with higher FP variation and longitudinal design are needed to investigate the causal associations between infant FP and taste preferences later in life. © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 

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Medical and Health Sciences  (hsv)

Health Sciences  (hsv)

Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology  (hsv)

Medicin och hälsovetenskap  (hsv)

Hälsovetenskaper  (hsv)

Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi  (hsv)

Medical and Health Sciences  (hsv)

Clinical Medicine  (hsv)

Pediatrics  (hsv)

Medicin och hälsovetenskap  (hsv)

Klinisk medicin  (hsv)

Pediatrik  (hsv)

Medical and Health Sciences  (hsv)

Health Sciences  (hsv)

Nutrition and Dietetics  (hsv)

Medicin och hälsovetenskap  (hsv)

Hälsovetenskaper  (hsv)

Näringslära  (hsv)

Individual and Society VIDSOC  (his)

Individ och samhälle VIDSOC  (his)

Genre

government publication  (marcgt)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Breastfeeding

Children

Formula milk

Healthy diet adherence

I.Family

IDEFICS study

Taste preference

adolescent

article

artificial milk

bitter taste

breast feeding

child

European

feeding behavior

female

healthy diet

human

human experiment

latent class analysis

major clinical study

mother

questionnaire

retrospective study