Vital signs: nutrition: stealthy vegetables: getting children to eat more

Good news for parents: can your kids, Zucchini, tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower and squash eat - and how they.

Researchers at the replaced these vegetables, pureed, kids meals, every meal calorie reduce Penn State but just to maintain their weight. One day a week for three weeks 40 children were given regular meals, meals with three times as much vegetables content or meals with four times as much vegetables content randomly. The children were eating told as much or as little as they wanted to.

The same amount of food by weight placed on the 3 - to 6 - year-old, participants in a day care center, regardless of whether the pureed meals contain vegetables. But those who ate meals with quadrupled vegetable content increase their vegetables total intake of 73 grams and reduce their calorie intake by around 12 per cent during the study.

Asked the taste as yucky rate OK or tasty, more than 70 percent of children assessed the vegetables falsified meals as OK or tasty. The study was published online July 20 in the American Journal of clinical nutrition.

"The controversial aspect is that it is deceptive," Maureen k. said spill, lead author and researcher at Penn State. "But it's just another way, to make recipes healthier." "It is still important for children to learn how vegetables look and taste how get."

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