Fruit Refuser.

[Veggiemummy]

My DS completely refuses fruit even bananas he is nearly 3 and apart from the occasional sultana, fruit juices and a curious attempted at an apple that didnt even end up in a full bite he has never eaten fruit i have tried everything, he also quite against vegetables unless they are hidden. It is slightly amusing that my husband and i are vegetarian, and needless to say our son is not.

What i am wanting to know really is whether this will pass and one day he will enjoy fruit i love fruit and ate loads during my pregnancy with DS and am always eating fruit at home in front of him. has anyone else had a child like this and do they eat fruit now. For now i am happy to wait and see as i think allowing some food choice is a good thing and also don't want to make bad associations with certain foods by forcing them on him but just need some reassurance really.

Ta

mine didnt eat much fruit at that age. They're like vultures at the fruit bowl as soon as they come home now! I don't put any in their lunchboxes as they always have at least one thing as soon as they get in. If he sees both of you eating fruit I bet he will grow to like it.

dd1 went off bananas about that age, she eats lots of other fruit though (I think it's a texture thing) like melon, raspberries, nectarines, plums, etc

I only got DS to eat Banana at the age of 5 by means of bribary. He doesn't do veg but will drink most fruit juices.

I did manage to get him to have tinned peaches and one of those fruit pouch things for babies. Try him on one of those.

I eat loads of fruit but DS and DH don't. I blame DH.

DD (2.5) also refuses all fresh fruit except lychees! She will eat some dried fruit (currently enjoying apricots as well as her staple of sultanas). She recently shocked us by eating a whole apple (in peeled slices), but hasn't repeated it since. About once every 3 months she'll eat bananas for 2 days, before going back to refusing them.

She is quite good with veg though.

I'm hoping that she'll grow to like fruit more if we don't force it upon her.

could you make smoothies and pretend there yoghurts

my ds 3 has always eaten fruit and loves all veg so cant really help there and i dont eat fruit at all but will eat veg he can do me out of apples bananas and grapes in a few days

but maybe a smoothie made together or just offer it first see if likes then make one together couldd be fun and may enjoy picking at fruit while making it

Thanks for all your reassurance i am quite happy to just hang back and go with his choices. It does seem to be quite a texture thing, which may go back to when he was a baby and would have nothing but my nipple in his mouth he would literally gag if i put bottle teats including the nuk ones in his mouth. and now if i do manage to get him to put fruit in his mouth (or he sees a friend doing it so has a go) he tends to gag on that too. Which makes me think it is just something that he will just grow out of but always nice to hear other experiences. Ecmo your vultures give me hope.

i will try smoothies again i tried them before but he seemed to smell the banana and didnt like it but that was ages ago so another stab at that wouldn't hurt.

The really strange thing is we make fruit a vegatable juices once a week together (only once a week as the juicer takes forever to clean) and he loves putting the carrots apples and even beetroots into the slot thing to juice them (all safe etc) and drinks most of his cos he has a peppa pi straw, but won't eat them if on his plate. Children gotta love their little ways.