Children eat too few vegetables and this is attributed to disliked flavours and texture as well as low energy density. Vegetables confer selective health benefits over other foods and so children are encouraged to eat them. Parents and caregivers face a challenge in incorporating vegetables into their child's habitual diet. However, liking and intake may be increased through different forms of learning. Children learn about vegetables across development from exposure to some vegetable flavours in utero, through breastmilk, complementary feeding and transitioning to family diets. Infants aged between 5-7m are most amenable to accepting vegetables. However, a range of biological, social, environmental and individual factors may act independently and in tandem to reduce the appeal of eating vegetables. By applying aspects of learning theory, including social learning, liking and intake of vegetables can be increased. We propose taking an integrated and individualised approach to child feeding in order to achieve optimal learning in the early years. Simple techniques such as repeated exposure, modelling, social praise and creating social norms for eating vegetables can contribute to positive feeding experiences which in turn, contributes to increased acceptance of vegetables. However, there is a mismatch between experimental studies and the ways that children eat vegetables in real world settings. Therefore, current knowledge of the best strategies to increase vegetable liking and intake gained from experimental studies must be adapted and integrated for application to home and care settings, while responding to individual differences.

孩子们吃的蔬菜太少，这归因于不喜欢的味道和质地以及低能量密度。蔬菜比其他食物具有选择性的健康益处，因此鼓励儿童食用它们。父母和看护人在将蔬菜纳入孩子的日常饮食中面临挑战。但是，可以通过不同形式的学习来增加喜欢和摄入量。孩子们从在子宫内接触一些蔬菜口味开始了解整个发育过程中的蔬菜，通过母乳、辅食喂养和过渡到家庭饮食。5-7m 的婴儿最容易接受蔬菜。然而，一系列生物、社会、环境和个人因素可能会独立和协同作用，降低吃蔬菜的吸引力。通过应用学习理论的各个方面，包括社会学习，可以增加蔬菜的喜好和摄入量。我们建议对儿童喂养采取综合和个性化的方法，以便在早期实现最佳学习。简单的技巧，例如反复接触、建模、社会表扬和创建食用蔬菜的社会规范，可以促进积极的进食体验，从而有助于增加对蔬菜的接受度。然而，实验研究与儿童在现实世界中吃蔬菜的方式之间存在不匹配。因此，必须对从实验研究中获得的增加蔬菜喜好和摄入量的最佳策略的当前知识进行调整和整合，以应用于家庭和护理环境，同时应对个体差异。