27 Jul 2022

No fruit could help babies like vegetables

From Morning Report, 8:24 am on 27 July 2022

It's one of the great household struggles - getting a child to eat their veggies.

But new research shows that introducing a baby to only vegetables as their first solid foods - so no fruit - may help children develop a long-term preference for vegetables.

Massey University Human Nutrition PhD student Dr Jeanette Rapson's findings have been published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

She spoke to Susie Ferguson.