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Citation

Wilkinson, Nicholas and Hetherington, Marion M. and Kannan, Srimathi and Ganguri, Harish and Evans, Charlotte E. L. (2025) Willingness-to-taste in UK children aged 4-7 years was driven by contextual facilitation, not intervention, in a randomized controlled trial of sensory food education. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1553

Dataset description

Data comprise the anonymised quantified results of the OASES RCT study. Data reflect individual participant behaviour during a vegetable and fruit tasting activity, conducted before (baseline) and after (follow-up) a six session sensory food education intervention ('Flavour School') delivered by school teachers during class time. Children were free to taste (or not) any/all of nine samples (7 vegetables, 2 fruit). Participants were individually video recorded during the activity. Primary outcomes were willingess-to-taste the foods offered, mean valence of facial expressions (positive/negative/neutral), termed 'Enjoyment', and a count of changes of facial expression, termed 'Expressiveness'.

Keywords:	Diet; health; children; sensory food education; vegetables; fruit; primary school; intervention; cluster- randomized controlled trial; willingness-to-taste
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > School of Food Science and Nutrition
Related resources:	Location Type https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107756 Publication
License:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Date deposited:	08 Jul 2025 10:50
URI:	https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/1435
Additional details Additional details Creators or authors: Creators ORCID Other ID Email Primary affiliation Primary affiliation ID Primary affiliation ID type Secondary affiliation Secondary affiliation ID Secondary affiliation ID type Wilkinson, Nicholas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8539-910X University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Hetherington, Marion M. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8677-5234 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Kannan, Srimathi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5525-9747 University of Michigan https://ror.org/00jmfr291 ror The University of Texas at Austin https://ror.org/00hj54h04 ror Ganguri, Harish University of the Cumberlands https://ror.org/05jz3sn81 ror Evans, Charlotte E. L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-4397 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Type of data: Dataset Research funders: EU Commission: Marie S. Curie Actions under Horizon2020 Grant numbers: Individual Fellowship 799965 Publication date: 2025 Resource language: English Metadata language: English Publisher: University of Leeds Contact email: n.wilkinson1@leeds.ac.uk; nwilkinson3@gmail.com Last Modified: 13 Aug 2025 13:54

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DataExplainer [15kB] DataExplainer [15kB] DataExplainer [15kB] Security: Anyone File name: OASES_DataExplainer.xlsx Content type: Documentation Description: This explains the labels and format of the data. Mime-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) File size: 15kB

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Data

OutcomesData [52kB] OutcomesData [52kB] OutcomesData [52kB] Security: Anyone File name: OASESFinalDataSubmission.xlsx Content type: Data Description: This data details the primary outcomes, and the lower level data from which the primary outcomes were calculated Mime-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) File size: 52kB