Kristin Shutts, Katherine Kinzler, and Jasmine DeJesus' 2012 article "Understanding Infants' and Children's Social Learning About Foods: Previous Research and New Prospects" provides an intriguing view concerning food and the degree to which children are influenced to express particular attitudes toward particular types of food as a result of the environment that they live in. The article if focused on discussing with regard to how children's development is closely related to their understanding of food. Even though infants and young children have trouble differentiating between food that it good for them and food that negatively affects them, they appear to have a series of abilities that enable them to evaluate foods at an early age.
Research conducted in recent decades points toward the fact that young children are able to select foods that are benefic for them. However, data recovered in the last few years also proves that infants and toddlers are, actually, very limited in understanding what foods are good for them. The response might be related to the fact that adults have a strong influence on children by providing them with information concerning what foods they should eat and what foods they should stay away from. Even with the fact that in some cases young children are unhesitant about consuming dangerous foods, they learn most of their knowledge from watching adults interact with foods.
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