When it comes to kids and vegetables, the mystery lives on

AG Week – Staff Writer

It’s the everlasting challenge of family dinner — how to get your child to eat their vegetables. With dietary authorities stressing the importance of fruits and vegetables, a pressing matter remains unresolved: most children do not easily let vegetables past their incisors. Less than 2% of American children aged 9-13 meet the dietary recommendations for minimum daily intake of vegetables. As researchers have long known, good advice to eat right is often just that.

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