If you are a parent struggling to get fruit in your kids’ diets
you have probably tried the technique of sneaking fruits and
vegetables in their food, or even giving the vegetables funny
names which I spoke about “in the news” for our Natural Health
newsletter. According to a study done by Dutch researchers, one
effective way to get kids to eat their produce is to make the
food look appealing and fun. In children ages 4 to 7 years old,
kids ate close to twice as much when the fruit was presented in
a fun and likable way. In the test, one group of apples, grapes
and strawberries were skewered with flagged cocktail sticks and
stuck into watermelon for kids to grab. The other group of fruit
was just put out on a regular plate. The research team was not
able to conclude why, when the fruit was more visually
appealing, kids ate significantly more, especially when they
knew that regardless of presentation the food would taste the
same. In the end it may not be about the taste of the fruit, but
making the fruit fun