Figure 2.
Child-reported target vegetable liking after 7-week intervention with 3-to-5-year-olds (n = 113). The intervention group received 7 hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics food-based learning activities, over 4 months to expose children to 9 target vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, radish, sweet potato, cucumber, tomato, carrot, and pea pod). Time of assessment: T1, baseline; T2, midpoint; T3, posttest. Scale: 1, super yucky; 5, super yummy. In between T2 and T3, children were absent from school for 3 weeks for winter break; however, the duration between data collection points was approximately equal. The values for mean and SE were reported. Repeated-measure ANOVA reported no significant difference from baseline (F2,68 = 0.82; P = 0.44; r = 0.02). Covariates appearing in the model are evaluated at the following values: sex, age = 3.71, BMI z-score = 0.71.