Consumer testing with children on food combinations for school lunch

From results it can be seen that preferences for most dishes of younger children (7 years old) differed from those of the older ones (10 years old). Also, unlike 8-, 9- and 10-year-old children, 7-year-old children supplied steadily higher acceptability scores than the intermediate score on the evaluation scale used. Based on our data, it was shown that children become increasingly aware of their preferences and critical in their choices with growing age.