(HealthDayNews) -- Are you tired of your kid deciding that fish sticks are the only food worth eating?
Here's some guidance from a study at Penn State University, where researchers did some tests to see what would induce a preschooler to try something new.
As reported in the journal Appetite, most children will try a new food -- once. It seems children do like novelties, but then quickly revert to their old habits.
The best role model to get children to try new foods is the teacher. Assuming the teacher makes the necessary statement that she likes the food, a child may try it as many as five times.
But the whole thing can be ruined if another child makes a negative comment. Peer comments seem to have more effect on girls than boys, the study finds.
