Comparison of five teacher actions to encourage children's new food acceptance

How can teachers encourage children to accept new fruits and vegetables? A quasi-experimental study with 64 preschool children (32 boys, 32 girls) compared the effectiveness of five teacher actions to encourage children's acceptance of four new fruits and vegetables presented during three preschool lunches. The five teacher actions included reward (special dessert), modeling, insisting children try one bite, choice-offering ("Do you want any of this?"), and a control condition of simple exposure.In factorial analyses of variance (two genders x five teacher actions), the five teacher actions produced differences in number of foods sampled (p