Food neophobia and associations with cultural diversity and socio-economic status amongst rural and urban Australian adolescents.

摘要: Exposure to diverse cultures and higher socio-economic status (SES) may increase knowledge of a wide variety stimuli, including food, be negatively associated with food neophobia. We contrasted questionnaire responses from two groups Australian high school students (aged 12-18 years) remote rural (rural, n=243) cosmopolitan urban (city, n=696) locations the neophobia scale (FNS), familiarity certain foods willingness try those foods. Cultural diversity measures SES scales were created. City less neophobic than (mean FNS scores 29.35 versus 34.68, p<0.001). also significantly more familiar different willing unfamiliar foods, had greater exposure cultural diversity. However, association between SES, diversity, only weak or moderate for both city students. Greater has some influence on adolescents' but relationship these factors score is tenuous.