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UrduKEY 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.
Tag: Picky Eating
Supportive Strategies Help “Picky Eaters” Deal with Food Aversions
In a large national survey, adults who struggled with picky eating habits as children overwhelmingly said they benefitted more from positive and encouraging strategies their parents used than forceful or coercive approaches.
Children’s dislike of cauliflower, broccoli could be written in their microbiome
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.