Parents are typically in charge of purchasing the food that their children eat, but little is known about how parents decide if particular foods are healthy for their children and how their beliefs about nutrition influence their children's beliefs. In two studies, we investigated how parents of children ages 4 to 12 (N = 826) make decisions about the healthiness of foods, when presented with different representations of the same nutritional information. Providing parents with nutritional information did not influence their ratings of how healthy food items are, compared to when they are shown only pictures of the foods. Parents reported talking with their children about nutrition, believed they are the best source of information for children about nutrition, and believed their nutrition beliefs influence their child's beliefs. Our findings highlight the role of prior knowledge in food cognition and how beliefs about foods are transmitted from parents to children.

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评估和交流食物的健康性：父母判断和亲子对话的预测因素

父母通常负责购买孩子吃的食物，但对于父母如何决定特定食物对孩子是否健康以及他们对营养的看法如何影响孩子的看法却知之甚少。在两项研究中，我们调查了 4 至 12 岁儿童 (N = 826) 的父母在呈现相同营养信息的不同表示时如何就食物的健康做出决定。与仅向父母展示食物图片时相比，向父母提供营养信息并不会影响他们对食物健康程度的评分。父母报告说与他们的孩子谈论营养，相信他们是孩子关于营养的最佳信息来源，并相信他们的营养信念会影响他们孩子的信念。