New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- Making healthy food look like "food porn" encourages teens to choose it, shows a study by ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition. This study also concludes that this strategy can be scaled up by building online communities that share visually appealing, nutritious meals.

The study, 'Foodporn for e-Priming Healthy Food Choices Among Adolescents: An Experimental Study Using Appealing Food Imagery', has been published in BMC Public Health.

The study was conducted on 203 adolescents from across the country. For the study, the team categorised 15 food images into three groups: unhealthy food porn (unhealthy food shown in alluring pictures), healthy food porn (healthy food depicted in alluring pictures), and healthy regul...