期刊
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
卷 148, 期 -, 页码 34-41出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.025
关键词
United States; Food choice; Taste formation; Food cost; Family; Waste; Health disparities
资金
- Harvard University
- National Science Foundation [DGE1144152]
- Harvard Catalyst \ The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (National Center for Research Resources)
- Harvard Catalyst \ The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health) [8UL1TR000170-05]
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES [UL1TR001102, UL1TR000170] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
This article shows how an interaction between economic constraints and children's taste preferences shapes low-income families' food decisions. According to studies of eating behavior, children often refuse unfamiliar foods 8 to 15 times before accepting them. Using 80 interviews and 41 grocery-shopping observations with 73 primary caregivers in the Boston area in 2013-2015, I find that many low-income respondents minimize the risk of food waste by purchasing what their children like often calorie-dense, nutrient-poor foods. High-income study participants, who have greater resources to withstand the cost of uneaten food, are more likely to repeatedly introduce foods that their children initially refuse. Several conditions moderate the relationship between children's taste aversion and respondents' risk aversion, including household-level food preferences, respondents' conceptions of adult authority, and children's experiences outside of the home. Low-income participants' risk aversion may affect children's taste acquisition and eating habits, with implications for socioeconomic disparities in diet quality. This article proposes that the cost of providing children a healthy diet may include the possible cost of foods that children waste as they acquire new tastes. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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