TABLE 3.

Distribution of child preference rankings of experimental foods (n = 47)

	Preference ranking for dinner and snack foods1
Experimental foods	1	2	3	4	5	6
Dinner foods
Pasta with tomato sauce	50	27	23	—	—	—
Broccoli	14	30	56	—	—	—
Applesauce	36	44	20	—	—	—
Snacks
Potato chips	21	18	14	19	17	11
Baked snack crackers	16	16	14	11	21	22
Wafer biscuits	10	10	20	25	18	17
Sponge cake with cream filling2	21	13	10	13	19	22
Chocolate chip cookies	14	15	28	21	12	10
Milk chocolate	18	29	15	10	13	15

¹All values are percentages. Preference rankings ranged from 1 (most liked) to 3 (least liked) for dinner foods or from 1 (most liked) to 6 (least liked) for snack foods.

²One sibling pair did not taste, rate, or rank-order the sponge cake for cultural/religious reasons.