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A study into repeated exposure of vegetables to pre-school children has found that age had a significant affect on the eating pattern, with older children being more likely to be non-eaters of the novel food (in this study artichoke puree was used).
Successful repeated exposure is dependent upon tasting even small amounts of the target food. Thus, repeated exposure is more likely to be effective at a time when most tastes are easily accepted, namely the weaning period. The first year of life presents a window of opportunity before the onset of food neophobia, which then peaks around 2-6 years, thus introducing novel foods such as different vegetables is optimal earlier rather than later.
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Learning to Eat Vegetables in Early Life: The Role of Timing, Age and Individual Eating Traits
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday June 04 2014, @04:00PM
When I was a kid I hated peas, or thought I did. I discovered as an adult that it was only canned peas that taste nasty, but fresh or frozen peas are delicious.
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(Score: 1) by goodie on Wednesday June 04 2014, @04:42PM
True... There's a bunch of foods I used to hate but now, upon trying them again, I actually like them: asparagus, carrots, etc. But this was more in my late twenties when I got to cook them myself and make the conscious decision of trying it rather than being force fed ;)