food preferences

Anarchia alimentare e deficit di vitamina B12

Lepri I.

2023/5 — pag. 331-334 — DOI

The diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency was finally made in a 5-year-old girl following a very selective diet and presenting with weight loss, abdominal pain and severe peripheral pancytopenia....

Come riconoscere un feeding disorder

Porcù MF, Bonazzi S, Mazzoni E, Cervi G, Paone G, Nanni F, Morisi L, Soffritti S

2021/5 — pag. 309-313 — DOI

Feeding disorders (FDs) are a large group of behaviours characterized by selectivity, inadequate intake and refusal of food. These disorders are frequent in children (10-15% < 3 years old) and their causes are multiple and variably combined. FDs have...

Genetica del gusto e svezzamento

A. Robino, G. Paviotti, G. Cont

2020/1 — pag. 20-22

Genetically mediated sensitivity to bitter taste has been associated with food preferences and eating behaviour in children. Recently, a study also revealed a possible link between TAS2R38 bitter taste gene and the first complementary food acceptan...

Lo sviluppo del gusto nel bambino

L. Greco, G. Morini

2010/8 — pag. 509-513

Children’s food preferences are strongly correlated with their eating behaviours; therefore, identifying the factors that can make them accept healthy food, like vegetables, which they do not usually like because of their bitter taste, is of crucia...

Sviluppo del gusto nel bambino: tra genetica e ambiente

P. Gasparini

2010/8 — pag. 483-484