Cauliflower Power Storybooks and Cruciferous Vegetable Consumption in Preschool Children

Abstract

The preschool years (ages 3–5 years) are a critical period for healthy habit formation, when the acceptance of new foods, especially vegetables, is crucial to the development of healthy dietary patterns.1 The World Health Organization highlights the preschool environment as an optimal setting for obesity prevention programs.2 Programs designed to improve children's vegetable acceptance may shape the early development of dietary patterns that have been shown to protect against the development of obesity, diabetes, and other chronic conditions in adolescence and adulthood.