Veggies Quiz for Kids

If getting your children to eat their veggies is a challenge, you’re not alone. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 90% of children don’t eat enough of the nutritious-rich greens. The good news is that a solution might be easier than you’d think.

Psychology Professor Traci Mann suggests getting to know your vegetables better by starting your meal with some quality one-on-one time.

“Normally, vegetables will lose the competition that they're in — the competition with all the other delicious food on your plate. Vegetables might not lose that battle for everyone, but they do for most of us,” said Mann in an interview with The Washington Post. “This strategy puts vegetables in a competition they can win, by pitting vegetables against no food at all…It works unbelievably well. We tested it with kids in school cafeterias, where it more than quadrupled the amount of vegetables eaten. It's just about making it a little harder to make the wrong choices, and a little easier to make the right ones.”

You can also make eating veggies fun by testing your kids’ knowledge with the 10-question quiz below. Be sure to lettuce know how they did on our AOP Facebook page!

Answers: 1: J; 2: E; 3: G; 4: I; 5: D; 6: C; 7: A; 8: B; 9: H; 10: F