How do you get kids to eat more vegetables? Reports show that kids tend not to enjoy eating veggies at school lunches, often discarding them uneaten.
This is not a joke: At the recent meeting of the American Society for the Advancement of Science a radical new method was discussed. Researchers have found that putting sugar on top of the veggies makes kids like them more:
In the community, 2 of 3 preschoolers preferred vegetables lightly misted with small amounts of sweetener to plain vegetables. Serving lightly sweetened vegetables weekly across 4 weeks was associated with increases in vegetable intake compared with little change for preschoolers served plain vegetables.
Great. So now that kids are already addicted to sweet junk food we’re going to give up and put sugar in everything they eat?
Crazy times.
There’s another, better, solution. My 17 months-old daughter loves veggies like broccoli and carrots, she can’t get enough of it. Why? Her veggies are fried in butter. A healthy choice: Butter is better.
