What is food preference?
Food preference is the selection of one food item over the other. While this selection in adults can be affected by cost, healthy nutrition awareness and personal preference, in children it is mostly affected by personal liking, knowledge and money concern not being yet applied. So, what a child chooses to eat is usually what he likes and what he is used to. So, many questions arise in this situation: What if liking of certain foods can actually be learned? Can it be possible to make children actually like their fruits and vegetables? Can carrots and broccoli be the new treat for a more trained youth? Can low sugar, low fat, whole carbohydrate food choices become the first choice of children? The answer to these questions is YES, but first we have to understand how food preference is acquired and what is the best way to positively shape it. How is food preference built? Is it an innate or learned process? So what initially shapes or affects child’s food preferences? Food preferences de
