Attentional bias for vegetables is negatively associated with acceptability and is related to sensory properties

•Attentional bias for vegetables is negatively associated with acceptability•Attentional bias was higher for vegetables with critical sensory properties•PROP supertasters showed higher reactions times for vegetables than PROP non-tasters•Neophobia was not associated with a higher attentional bias toward vegetables•Implicit and explicit methods contribute to better understand vegetable acceptability