STILLWATER — Researchers from Oklahoma State University and Purdue University teamed up recently to assess the purchasing habits of households that buy dairy products for children, affirming an ages-old trend that what parents ate as kids plays a role in what they feed their own offspring.
“Yogurt, as an example, did not really become popular until the millennial generation were growing up. They now feed it regularly to their own kids, although not necessarily the same kind of yogurt they ate while younger,” said Courtney Bir, an agricultural economist and researcher with OSU’s Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.
Key takeaways of the survey were that households with children were more likely to:
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