Table 2. Prevalence and level of food neophobia in childhood.

Author/year	Prevalence (%)	Neophobia scale	Prevailing level of neophobia
Falciglia et al. (2000) 2	32.8	-	-
Galloway et al. (2003) 12	33	-	-
Cooke et al. (2006) 19	47.7	Child Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner, 1994	High
Russell and Worsley (2008) 16	-	Child Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner and Hobden, 1992	Moderate
Mustonen and Tuorila (2010) 20	-	Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner and Hobden, 1992	Moderate
Howard et al. (2012) 17	-	Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner and Hobden, 1992	Moderate
Tan and Holub (2012) 14	-	Child Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner, 1994	Moderate
Cassells et al. (2014) 21	13	Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner and Hobden, 1992	High
Laureati et al. (2014) 22	-	Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner and Hobden, 1992	High
Maratos and Staples (2015) 23	27.1	Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner and Hobden, 1992	High
Perry et al. (2015) 18	12.8	-	-
Kaar et al. (2016) 13	-	Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner and Hobden, 1992	Moderate
Moding and Stifter (2016) 24	-	Child Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner, 1994	Moderate
Kozioł-Kozakowska et al. (2018) 25	87.7	Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner and Hobden, 1992	Moderate
Helland et al. (2017) 26	-	Child Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner, 1994	Moderate
Maiz and Balluerka (2018) 15	28.7	Spanish Child Food Neophobia Scale - Maiz, Balluerka, and Maganto, 2016	High
Rioux et al. (2018) 27	-	Child Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner, 1994	Moderate
Kähkönen et al. (2018) 28	24.5	-	-
Kutbi et al. (2019) 29	100	Food Neophobia Scale - Pliner and Hobden, 1992	High