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If you ever dreamed that your child would eat vegetables like the girl above, then there's hope for you after all! Research by Wansink and colleagues (2012) suggest that simply naming vegetables with a cool name increases how likely children will eat them. They found that elementary students ate more vegetables when they were given names like Power Punch Broccoli, Silly Dilly Green Beans, Tiny Tasty Tree Tops, and X-Ray Vision Carrots.
Unfortunately, the study only gives us the power to get our children to eat broccoli, green beans, and carrots as those are the only vegetables their study named. What about all the other vegetables that are out there to be devoured?!? Even better, how about we satisfy our collective desire for alliteration while we’re at it (Benczes, 2013)!?! Here's an A to Z list of vegetables with alliterative names to help your children eat them!
Awesome Asparagus
Bodacious Brussels Sprouts
Cool Cucumber
Daring Daikon
Exciting Eggplant
Fabulous Fava Beans
Groovy Green Beans
Happening Haricot Beans
Ideal Iceberg Lettuce
Jaunty Jerusalem Artichoke
Crazy Kale
Lively Lima Beans
Marvelous Mushroom
Nifty Navy Beans
Overjoyed Okra
Peerless Peas
Quintessential Quinoa
Robust Rutabagas
Spectacular Spinach
Terrific Turnips
Ultimate Ulluco
Vibrant Vidalia Onions
Wonderful Water Chestnut
Xenodochial Xerophyte - you’d eat it if you were stranded in the desert!
Yummy Yams
Zany Zucchini
The Q, U, and X were especially tough as expected, but the difficulty of D was a surprise! What ideas do you have for alliterative vegetables with cool names?
References
Benczes, R. (2013). The role of alliteration and rhyme in novel metaphorical and metonymical compounds. Metaphor and Symbol, 28, 167-184.
Wansink, B., Just, D. R., Payne, C. R., & Klinger, M. Z. (2012). Attractive names sustain increased vegetable intake in schools. Preventive Medicine, 55, 330-332.
