Biosystems and Environmental Engineering Research Group, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box MP167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. Electronic address: wgwenzi@agric.uz.ac.zw.
The present study examined if adapting the Cooking Matters (CM) curriculum to be used in an online format would improve participants' shopping skills, attitudes toward cooking, and feelings of cooking...
One in ten Americans suffers from type 2 diabetes, which, if not managed well, can result in severe complications, disability, and premature death. Diabetes education classes can play a pivotal role i...
Microwave treatment, roasting, boiling, and enzymatic treatment were used to prepare cooked and instant chestnut flour, and the in vitro digestibility were compared. Cooking gelatinized the starch and...
Examine the impact of Fuel for Fun: Cooking with Kids Plus Parents and Play (FFF) on children's culinary self-efficacy, attitude, fruit and vegetable (FV) preferences, physical activity (PA), and body...
Randomized controlled trial....
Eight elementary schools in 2 Northern Colorado districts....
Fourth-grade students; 7-month interventions: school (S.FFF)-theory-based cooking + tasting lessons, active recess, lesson-driven cafeteria promotions; or school + family (S+F.FFF) with added family n...
Cooking self-efficacy and attitudes, FV preferences, PA, and measured height/weight....
Individual outcomes nested by classroom, school, and district and assessed > 12 months with repeated measures controlled by sex and baseline cooking experience, with a significance level of P < 0.05....
The sample included 1,428 youth, 38 teachers, 4 cohorts, 50% boys, 75% White, and 15% Hispanic. No intervention effect was observed. Those who cooked retained higher self-efficacy, attitude, and FV pr...
Cooking and sex were associated with all outcome measures and should be considered for intervention tailoring. Treatment impacts were not evident nesting by classroom, school, and district. Accurate a...
Cooking methods can change the composition of foods and have important effects on human health. The Chinese people have developed many distinct and unique cooking methods. However, the daily cooking p...
Low levels of cooking skills, confidence and home cooking are related to poorer dietary outcomes and are a common barrier to adequate vegetable consumption. Convenience cooking products may play a rol...
To investigate the impact of the Nutrition and Culinary in the Kitchen (NCK) Program on the cooking skills of Brazilian individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)....
A randomized controlled intervention study was performed, with intervention and control groups. The intervention group participated in weekly sessions of the NCK Program for six weeks (including two i...
Of the 60 individuals enrolled, 44 answered the questionnaire at both times. The findings revealed a 45.37% ± 93.57% increase in Knowledge of Cooking Terms in the intervention group, whereas the contr...
The development of cooking skills can contribute to increasing culinary knowledge and the availability of time to cook at home. The results contribute to the planning of health actions aimed at indivi...
The Professional Cooking (PC) course is an optional 18-week experiential learning course offered in francophone high schools in New Brunswick, Canada. Students are taught how to measure ingredients, r...
What is the effectiveness of the PC course on high school girls' and boys' cooking and food skills, vegetable and fruit consumption, and other eating behaviours?...
Students enrolled in the PC course (n = 124) or a mandatory Personal and Social Development (PSD) course (n = 202) in five high schools were recruited. Students' food and cooking skills, vegetable and...
Students in the PC course reported greater increases in food (β=5.74, 95% CI 1.65, 9.83) and cooking skills (β=10.33, 95% CI 5.59, 15.06) than students in the PSD course. Girls and boys in the PC cour...
The PC course effectively improved students' cooking skills. Curriculum-integrated high school cooking courses provide a foundation for healthier eating by helping students develop food literacy skill...
The successful use of solar energy for cooking requires the systems adopted not only to have technical attributes that conveniently address specific cooking requirements but also are socially and econ...
Diabetes self-management education and support is the cornerstone of diabetes care, yet <10% of adults with diabetes manage their condition successfully. Feasible interventions are needed urgently....
Our aim was to assess the feasibility of a cooking intervention with food provision and diabetes self-management education and support....
This was a waitlist-controlled, randomized trial....
Thirteen adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes who participated in Cooking Matters for Diabetes (CMFD) participated in 2 focus groups....
CMFD was adapted from Cooking Matters and the American Diabetes Association's diabetes self-management education and support intervention into a 6-week program with weekly lesson-aligned food provisio...
Feasibility was evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively along the following 5 dimensions: demand, acceptability, implementation, practicality, and limited efficacy....
Two coders extracted focus group themes with 100% agreement after iterative analysis, resulting in consensus. Administrative data were analyzed via descriptive statistics....
Mean (SD) age of focus group participants was 57 (14) years; 85% identified as female; 39% identified as White; 46% identified as Black; and income ranged from <$5,000 per year (15%) to $100,000 or mo...
The CMFD intervention was feasible according to the measured principles of demand, acceptability, implementation, practicality, and limited efficacy....
