ZEINSTRA Gertrude
Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
- Since 2011, Gertrude works as a scientist and project leader in the Food, Health & Consumer Research group within Wageningen University and Research.
- She works on different projects in various teams on the topic of food choice behaviour and interventions to change behaviour in specific consumer groups: children, adolescents, elderly. Many studies are performed in real life settings such as schools and day cares. Observing and understanding the food choice behaviour of consumers creates opportunities for changing eating behaviour and helping consumers to make the healthy choice the easy choice. Gertrude also works on food waste behaviour from a consumer perspective.
- Gertrude worked previously on the PhD-project ´Code Delicious´, which was a collaboration between the division of Human Nutrition and the department of Communication Science. The aim of the project was to encourage fruit and vegetable intake in children aged 4-12 years. She performed six different studies within this project: qualitative, survey and experimental research. On Friday the 22nd of January 2010, Gertrude successfully defended her thesis: Encouraging vegetable intake in children; the role of parental strategies, cognitive development and properties of food.
- Gertrude was educated as a nutrition researcher. She obtained her Master degree Nutrition & Health at Wageningen University & Research.
Recent publications:
- Zeinstra GG, et al. Implementation of four strategies in Dutch day-care centres to stimulate young children’s fruit and vegetable consumption. Appetite. 2023 Feb 1;181:106378.
- van Kleef E, et al. Which factors promote and prohibit successful implementation and normalization of a healthy school lunch program at primary schools in the Netherlands? J Health Popul Nutr. 2022 Oct 15;41(1):47.
- Müller C, et al. The sweet tooth of infancy: Is sweetness exposure related to sweetness liking in infants up to 12 months of age? Br J Nutr. 2022 Aug 11:1-11.
- Zeinstra GG, et al. Strategies to increase primary school children’s fruit and vegetable intake during 10AM snack time. Appetite. 2021 Aug 1;163:105235.
- Sandvik P,et al. Yuck, This Biscuit Looks Lumpy! Neophobic Levels and Cultural Differences Drive Children’s Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) Descriptions and Preferences for High-Fibre Biscuits. Foods. 2020 Dec 23;10(1):21.