I myself have been amazed to see hungry young chicks refuse to touch a purified diet until we added thiamin, which we discovered to have been accidentally omitted from a published formula.
From Kenneth Carpenter’s excellent Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B (2000), p. 193. If young chicks can be better judges of the nutritional quality of food than nutrition professors, perhaps — just perhaps — young children can be better judges of the nutritional quality of food than their parents.
After I wrote that young children may be picky eaters because they are offered unhealthy food, some readers disagreed. But here is another example:
From Kenneth Carpenter’s excellent Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B (2000), p. 193. If young chicks can be better judges of the nutritional quality of food than nutrition professors, perhaps — just perhaps — young children can be better judges of the nutritional quality of food than their parents.
The wisdom of the one-year-old picky eater.