Parents can stimulate children to eat more vegetables if they named it attractive for vegetable dishes, such as broccoli will normally called "dinosaur broccoli" for example.


Parents should encourage children to eat vegetables if you want them more enhanced resistance as well as to many important physical and vegetables can also help balance the weight of the child. But how do children really like vegetables and food cravings? It's little wonder to parents.


According to a recent study, parents would encourage children to eat more vegetables if attractive name for the vegetable dishes, such as broccoli normally be called "dinosaur broccoli" or the result peas will become "high-energy pods".


Research shows that children like to eat more carrots in the meal when the carrot that is named "The carrot extraordinary." The researchers identified the name for each kind of vegetables can also affect the tastes and they also affect the number of occurrences in the children's meals.

This is the result of a survey study with 186 children age 4. The researchers have put carrots on the menu for lunch as usual and they were added to a food menu that is "The carrot extraordinary." And after a few days, the number of carrots to eat more than twice normal.


The author of the study, Brian Wansink professor from Cornell University that have strange names strange and can make the dish more appealing. The names and funny food or also makes the children feel happy to enjoy that dish.


A restaurant also recognizes this as food "seafood fillet" the item was changed to "additional loin of seafood in Italy" has sold more than 28%.


Professor Wansink also said that the same dish, but if we give them different expectations as delicious, complementary, cheap or assign them the beneficial properties for health as extraordinary, dinosaurs (well as crisis long) ... it will be very attractive to enjoy.
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