Children have all sorts of sensory issues when it comes to food. There is no correlation between increased eating of fruit and vegetable and decreased consumption of high-fat and high-sugar foods following the Food Dudes intervention.įood Dudes also didn’t do anything to help people’s mindsets about food. Image: UnsplashĪnd studies have even proved that Food Dudes had no discernible effect on children’s diets whatsoever.

You’ll be too scared to eat them elsewhere and miss the chance to taste vegetables cooked right. Start associating broccoli with the uncooked, unsatisfying taste you experienced in Food Dudes. Eating raw vegetables did not increase healthy eating. People who took part in the programme will know this did not happen. It seems like introductory psychology, doesn’t it? First, incentivise impressionable minds to eat healthy with rewards eventually, they’ll eat them willingly. I hope they’ve received financial compensation. They also had to prove that vegetables were cool thus, the most incredible Irish television show was born. Eat enough raisins, and suddenly you’re the owner of a step counter at age nine. The more food you ate, the better prizes. Eat a raw mushroom, and get a small fuzzy ball with googly eyes in return (please tell me I didn’t hallucinate the googly-eye monster).

Anyone who finished their raw meals was given a small prize. So dig into that raw broccoli, my friend.Īs well as some light starving, Food Dudes had other incentives to get kids to eat healthily. But you also typically weren’t allowed to eat most food you brought in yourself. Provide children ages four to twelve with raw fruits and vegetables and force them to eat them. It has stuck so viscerally in the hearts and minds of young people is because of its basic, horrifying premise.

Got reminded of food dudes, that shit was my villain origin story- Nico June 15, 2022

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