Selection of reference foods for a scale of standards for use in assessing the transitional process from milk to solid food in infants and pre-school children

• Published in: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 57; no. 7; pp. 803 - 809
• Main Authors: Sakashita, R, Inoue, N, Tatsuki, T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Springer Science and Business Media LLC 01.07.2003; Nature Publishing Group UK; Nature Publishing; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Babies; Biological and medical sciences; Chewing; Child, Preschool; childhood; Children; Clinical Nutrition; Cluster Analysis; correlation; Correlation coefficient; Correlation coefficients; deglutition; Epidemiology; Female; Food; Food - classification; Food groups; Food Preferences; Food processing; Food selection; Human physiology applied to population studies and life conditions. Human ecophysiology; Humans; Infant; Infant Food; Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Infants; Internal Medicine; linear models; liquids; Male; Mastication; Mastication - physiology; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Milk; mothers; nurses; Nutrition; Nutritional survey. Food supply and nutritional requirement; original-communication; Pilot Projects; Preschool children; Public Health; Reference Values; Reliability; Ryukyu Archipelago; Surveys and Questionnaires; Weaning; Asia; Japan; Okinawa; Ryukyu Archipelago; child development; scale; mastication; infant food; Japan; Human; Infant; Standard; School; Infant food; Transition; Processed food; Child; Milk

Objective : This paper describes the development of a reliable scale of standards for use in evaluating the progress of the transition from milk to solid food in infants and preschool children. The maturation of chewing and swallowing behavior in infants and young children, which enables processing...