Food taste and intercultural eating skills

Factors contributing to taste preferences are:

  • genes
  • age
  • culture
  • influence of teacher

Teachers become role models by:

  • engaging with children at mealtime and sitting down and eating with them
  • engaging with children at mealtime and eat their own home prepared meal
  • engaging with children at mealtime and sitting down with them and explain which food is healthy and why

Which of the five senses child develops for first?

  • smeel
  • touch
  • sight

According to the recent indications of the "Levels of Assumption of Reference and Energy for the population" (LARN), which should the first macro-nourishing be in the diet of child from 1 to 3?

  • proteins
  • fat
  • carbohydrates

Why food should be a way of integrating?

  • because it is an opportunity to develop awareness about own and different traditions
  • because eating is one of the most relevant activity for people
  • because nowadays there are only christian children in kindergarten classrooms
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