What makes a child want cheese to cover green food?!
What makes a child want cheese to cover green food?
B 4 they''ll eat it.
Answers:
Apparently they just love cheese, they are assuming that the green food, which I imagine is a vegetable, will taste better with something they know they like, this is normal!
duh...it taste better
it makes it takes better. Same with Ketchup
that most green food is nasty and cheese is delitious so it get even
It's a tasty combo? Green veggies can taste kind of bitter to a kid too, the creamy saltiness of the cheese balances it out. Nothing wrong with it, adds some extra calcium and protein to already nutritious green veggies. Kids will grow up strong and healthy eating that.
Cheese has fat. Fat makes things taste better.
Cheese tastes better than broccoli does. So kids will cover foods they don't eat with ketchup, cheese, peanut butter, things like that. It also maybe more fun to put stuff on your food, like cheese or ketchup. I'm 23, and I still won't eat green vegetables without cheese or butter.
Apparently, most children believe cheese tastes good and will it does sort of cover up the tastes of the green foods.
in a child's mind:
green = vegetables
vegetables = yucky
cheese = yummy
cheese
--------------- = non icky green stuff
vegetables
i'm fortunate, my 3 year old loves vegetables. she loves cheese though, too.....................
I know in American Society it's because that we put cheese on everything. Chips, subs, popcorn, meat, hamburgers, salads...in fact if you can't eat dairy (like me) you'll be hard pressed to find a wide selection of food you can eat that you don't have to make for yourself.
It's only natural that if we put it on most everything else, to make it taste better that they'd want to put it on veggies to make them taste better.
Most people don't even notice this because it doesn't bother them, but take it from someone who has to take pills every time that want something dairy, that there is cheese on a lot of things in the United States.
Cheese is probably the greatest thing ever. Children know this. I think you'd be interested to know, though, that at my step-nephew's 2nd birthday party, he cried because he wanted broccoli instead of cake...and that made me almost cry cuz it was horrible to watch him say that. poor kid.
In 1981, Eli Hazum and his colleagues at Wellcome Research Laboratories in Research Triangle Park, N.C., reported a remarkable discovery. Analyzing samples of cow’s milk, they found traces of a chemical that looked very much like morphine. They put it to one chemical test after another. And, finally, they arrived at the conclusion that, in fact, it is morphine. There is not a lot of it, and not every sample had detectable levels. But there is indeed some morphine in both cow’s milk and human milk.
Morphine, of course, is an opiate and is highly addictive. So how did it get into milk? At first, the researchers theorized that it must have come from the cows’ diets. After all, morphine used in hospitals comes from poppies and is also produced naturally by a few other plants that the cows might have been eating. But it turns out that cows actually produce it within their bodies, just as poppies do. Traces of morphine, along with codeine and other opiates, are apparently produced in cows’ livers and can end up in their milk.
But that was only the beginning, as other researchers soon found. Cow’s milk―or the milk of any other species, for that matter―contains a protein called casein that breaks apart during digestion to release a whole host of opiates called casomorphins. A cup of cow’s milk contains about six grams of casein. Skim milk contains a bit more, and casein is concentrated in the production of cheese.
If you examined a casein molecule under a powerful microscope, it would look like a long chain of beads (the “beads” are amino acids―simple building blocks that combine to make up all the proteins in your body). When you drink a glass of milk or eat a slice of cheese, stomach acid and intestinal bacteria snip the casein molecular chains into casomorphins of various lengths. One of them, a short string made up of just five amino acids, has about one-tenth the pain-killing potency of morphine.
What are these opiates doing there, hidden in milk proteins? It appears that the opiates from mother’s milk produce a calming effect on the infant and, in fact, may be responsible for a good measure of the mother-infant bond. No, it’s not all lullabies and cooing. Psychological bonds always have a physical underpinning. Like it or not, mother’s milk has a drug-like effect on the baby’s brain that ensures that the baby will bond with Mom and continue to nurse and get the nutrients all babies need. Like heroin or codeine, casomorphins slow intestinal movements and have a decided antidiarrheal effect. The opiate effect may be why adults often find that cheese can be constipating, just as opiate painkillers are.
It is an open question to what extent dairy opiates enter the adult circulation. Until the 1990s, researchers thought that these protein fragments were too large to pass through the intestinal wall into the blood, except in infants, whose immature digestive tracts are not very selective about what passes through. They theorized that milk opiates mainly acted within the digestive tract and that they signaled comfort or relief to the brain indirectly, through the hormones traveling from the intestinal tract to the brain.
But French researchers fed skim milk and yogurt to volunteers and found that, sure enough, at least some casein fragments do pass into the bloodstream. They reach their peak about 40 minutes after eating. Cheese contains far more casein than other dairy products do. As milk is turned into cheese, most of its water, whey proteins, and lactose sugar are removed, leaving behind concentrated casein and fat.
Cheese holds other drug-like compounds as well. It contains an amphetamine-like chemical called phenylethylamine, or PEA, which is also found in chocolate and sausage. And there are many hormones and other compounds in cheese and other dairy products whose functions are not yet understood. In naloxone tests, the opiate-blocking drugeliminates some of cheese’s appeal, just as it does for chocolate.
"At a “Cheese Forum” held on December 5, 2000, Dick Cooper, the Vice President of Cheese Marketing for Dairy Management, Inc., showed slide after slide detailing the industry’s plans for pushing cheese in grocery chains, food services, and fast-food restaurants. One slide asked the question “What do we want our marketing program to do?” and then gave the answer: “Trigger the cheese craving.” Mr. Cooper concluded with a cartoon of a playground slide with a large spider web woven to trap children as they reached the bottom. The caption had one spider saying to another, “If we pull this off, we’ll eat like kings.”"