Vanessa Knobl, Mattea Dallacker, Ralph Hertwig, Jutta Mata
Happy and healthy: How family mealtime routines relate to child nutritional health

Appetite: Multidisciplinary Research on Eating and Drinking, 2022: 171, (article no. 105939)
ISSN: 0195-6663 (online)

Children eat most of their meals in a family context, making family meals a key environment in which to learn about healthy food. What makes a family meal “healthy”? This diary study examined the practice of seven family mealtime routines (e.g., positive mealtime atmosphere, parental modeling, and longer meal duration) and their predictive value for children's healthier nutrition focusing onausklappen