Toddler Tastes Study

The goal of this study is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of two food preference learning approaches for toddlers that could serve as alternatives to mere repeated exposure to new or previously disliked foods. The target population is toddlers who score higher on food fussiness. The study is a two-group randomized controlled trial. Families will be randomized to 1 of 2 study groups: associative conditioning, or the child tasting vegetables alongside a palatable dip, or modeling, in which the child and parent taste vegetables together. Both groups will attend two laboratory visits, one before and one after a 4-week exposure period, and will be asked to complete 8 vegetable tastings in accordance with their assigned condition across the 4 intervention weeks. Key questions to be addressed are: * summarizing the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention strategies * assessing whether children's liking and intake of the target food increase from baseline to post-intervention

NCT Number	NCT06877468
Lead Sponsor	State University of New York at Buffalo Collaborators: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
Conditions	Dietary Behavior
Enrollment	41 participants
Start Date	2025-03-19
Primary Completion	2025-07-29 (estimated)
Study Completion	2025-07-29 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-01-05