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Vegetarian Times, Feb, 2003

What children haven't been offered, they won't eat. In a study of children's food preferences, University of Tennessee researchers found that the foods children don't like are also foods they weren't offered. Seventeen of the 24 foods kids disliked most intensely were vegetables, as were foods that they "never tasted." Coincidence? Nope, say researchers in the November 2002 Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

Food preferences are formed "as early as age two to three years," and parents who don't expose their little ones to vegetables early in their lives shouldn't be too surprised if they balk at eating them later on.