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> Children notoriously prefer prepackaged industrially processed food over whole foods prepared with care and love.

In most cases, this is probably due to the care givers training their children to prefer that kind of food because they don't make many home cooked meals.

I don't even know if it's true, though. When I was a kid, the best food in the world were the home made meals my grandmother made, especially on the holidays. Remember as a teenager telling my Grandma her meals were better than any restaurant I had ever eaten at, and meaning it in all sincerity.



Dunno. My wife was reeeeally tryhard with our first child feeding him only home made food from the age of 1 to 2.

He though industrial food was awesome as soon as he was exposed to it.

(Obviously bad sample size)

I think it is something about the perfect homogeneous product they like. Or how the taste even out between different ingredients on the shelf.


Something to keep in mind is that industrial food usually has a lot of sugar and other additivies added to make it taste as good as possible. . Companies literally spend billions of dollars figuring this stuff out, of course the home made meal can't compete.


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Could you please stop posting flamewar- and ideological-battle-style comments to HN? Your account has been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and it's not what HN is for.

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