Easy way to make kids eat their vegetables

Give them fun names! In a recent Cornell University study, four-year-olds gobbled twice as many carrots when they were labeled “X-ray vision carrots” than when they were simply labeled as “carrots”. “Cool names can make for cool foods,” explains lead author Brian Wansink, Ph.D. “Whether it be ‘power peas’ or ‘dinosaur broccoli trees,’ giving a food a fun name makes kids think it will be more fun to eat.”

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