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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Appetite. 2012 Mar 9;58(3):1136–1142. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.03.005

Table 2.

Infants’ Green Bean Acceptance

M (s.e.m.) 95% C.I. %a
Overall Consumption
     Intake (g) 54.6 (4.8) 45.1 – 64.1 --
     Time spent eating (min) 12.1 (0.7) 10.7 – 13.5 --
     Mean acceptance latency (s) 3.8 (0.3) 3.2 – 4.4 --
Frequency of facial expressions per spoon offer over first 2 minutes of feeding
     Brow lowerers (AU 4) 2.0 (0.2) 1.6 – 2.4 90.2%
     Inner brow raises (AU 1) 1.4 (0.2) 1.0 – 1.8 75.0%
     Squints (AU 6, AU 7) 2.8 (0.2) 2.4 – 3.2 97.8%
     Nose wrinkles (AU 9) 0.6 (0.1) 0.4 – 0.8 59.8%
     Lip raises (AU 10) 2.0 (0.2) 1.6 – 2.4 96.7%
     Gapes (AU 26, AU 27) 0.2 (0.03) 0.1 – 0.3 25.0%
Time spent crying (s) 2.2 (0.7) 0.8 – 3.6 20.6%
Mothers’ ratings of enjoyment (1 = extreme dislike, 9 = extreme like) 6.1 (0.2) 5.6 – 6.6 --
a

Percentage of children who expressed the behavior