NEIL deGrasse TYSON: Children don't like vegetables because vegetables on average are bitter, and most poisons in nature are bitter and poisons are much more potent on a small body

Is this the reason children don’t like vegetables? 🥦

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— Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 (@SBakerMD) July 26, 2024

Children don't like vegetables because vegetables on average are bitter, and most poisons in nature are bitter and poisons are much more potent on a small body, such as a infant, child, or toddler than they are on an adult.  So this was an evolutionary resistance to not dying by eating something that is poisonous.  

Babies and children have more taste buds than adults so we are born with a lot of taste buds that we sort of gradually lose over our lifetime so everything they're tasting is more intense than what an adult will taste