Tag: picky eaters

Four Ways to Keep Your Kids From Becoming Picky Eaters

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KEY TAKEAWAYS:Preventing picky eating starts in infancy, before tastes grow more stubborn.Don’t overuse food pouches. Kids need to experience different flavors and textures.Children can learn to like foods they initially reject if exposed to them repeatedly.As long as there are freezers stocked with chicken nuggets, there will be children who turn their noses up at salmon.

Children’s dislike of cauliflower, broccoli could be written in their microbiome

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Researchers reporting in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry have found that levels of volatile, sulfurous compounds are similar in parent-child pairs, suggesting shared oral microbiomes. They also found that high levels cause children to dislike the vegetables.