Eating vegetables can also be taught to the brain
If a child is asked if they prefer a chocolate bar or a plate of vegetables, almost certainly will choose the first one. The battle to make children eat these foods happens every day in many homes where parents have to pull imagination to get these products into their children's diet. Is there an effective method?
Of course yes, and everything happens to teach the brain the taste for vegetables. Small tricks so that the child's mind is predisposed to eat these foods making them look tasty and tasteful. Do you want your child to bet on green? These tips will help you.
The name of the dishes should be attractive for children
In the day to day children see a multitude of audiovisual products that show vegetables as a product of bad taste and that must be rejected, something that predisposes the child to ingest them. The solution? As a study of the Stanford University, change the name of the dishes that are presented on the table for a title that is more attractive to children.
If the child asks what there is to eat, we must highlight some quality about the taste of the dish with vegetables. The key is to awaken the child's curiosity, make him want to check if it really is as tasty as his parents have told him. At this point it is also important that adults eat these foods and preach by example as we must not forget that adults are a mirror where children look at each other.
In this line is also the study carried out by the Cornell University that proved how the name of the vegetables helped the little ones dare to eat them. In this work, several students between 8 and 11 years old were offered the same menu over three days.
One of these groups was told that the Name of the dish that they were going to eat carrots, the second day of the study, was called "Carrots with X-ray vision". The results showed that twice as many vegetables were consumed in this day than in the rest of the children's cases.
Eat with eyes and nose
Five are the senses that a person has, and although the taste be the one that most relates to food can not be ignored others. For example, sight can help the child eat vegetables. A study published in the magazine Nature notes that children tend to reject green products, but feel a greater predisposition for red.
At the time of starting children in the consumption of vegetables, you can bet on the most striking colors and gradually introduce others of a different variety of color. The smell It can also help the child feel curious about the taste of these foods. When cooking these foods, making sure that children smell the smell of tasty dishes can be very helpful.
Damián Montero
