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18th January 2024
10:50am GMT
If your child struggles to eat their fruit and vegetables, there is a hack that may be a helpful solution.
As many parents will know, kids can be very particular about the reasons they will or won't eat something.
This can especially be the case when their favourite superhero, princess, or cartoon character features heavily in the biscuits and confectionery aisle of your local supermarket.
However, what if there was a way to make healthy foods just as appealing to children?
One dad has confirmed that there is and has shared the success he has had with his daughter using the 'stick hack'.
In an Instagram video, Levi Jensen (@emilyxlevi) applies stickers of characters, such as Ana and Elsa from Frozen, Bambi, and Winnie The Pooh to a range of fruits and vegetables.
His daughter can be seen in the clip immediately reaching for the red bell pepper featuring the Frozen princesses.
"Did you know that putting characters on food products drastically influences a child’s taste preferences and d snack selection? (Cited from the Journal of Pediatrics)" the nutrition coach captioned the post.
"Food marketers have known this for years and have used this to attract kids to highly processed foods. So why not use this to make healthier food options more attractive to our kids?"
Backing up the theory that children's eating habits are influenced by the addition of their favourite characters, users shared their success stories using the sticker hack.
"Not even joking, I put Elsa stickers on the yoghurts they didn’t want and all of a sudden my kids wanted them," one wrote.
"My daughter was obsessed with Supergirl. I made a stamp and stamped everything with it. She hated beans until she saw they were Supergirl beans," a second parent added.
Another parent explained how the same hack can change a kids' thoughts around, well, just about anything.
"My daughter’s friend was given a hand me down bicycle. It was RED so she determined it was a boys bicycle and therefore didn’t want it. Her mom put kitten stickers on and it boom, she loved that bike!" they wrote.
"When I was tiny, the only way my parents could get me to take medicine was by putting barbie stickers on it. I still don’t know what that pink medicine is actually called, I just know it as ‘barbie medicine’," another added.
Say goodbye to the table battles of eating fruit and vegetables!
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