Do you believe that the first foods you introduce determine whether your baby is a picky eater?

My 18m old ears everything and likes veggies. She eats broccoli as a snack, likes sour and bitter tastes (like tahini)
She eats super healthy and I truly believe that is because she never ate refined sugar, we don’t use much processed food, and we sweet things lightly with fresh fruits

I believe even babies have preferences, I don’t think that the foods you were offered in childhood make a huge impact on what your original preferences were straight out the womb.

Our brains are wired to prefer sweet tastes and offering vegetables first won’t change that. Offering a wide variety of foods is what’s supposed to help with picky eating - especially when they’re babies and will often try most anything.

Some things are out of our control when it comes to how picky some kids are, for sure. There are some things we can control but who knows exactly how much of a difference it makes.

Idk this isn’t my personal experience. My son’s first food was a banana. His current favorite foods are carrots, beets, egg, and beef. He still loves banana also lol. My opinion is they become picky once you start giving them processed crappy or deep fried foods.

I never gave my kids sugary foods as babies… my kids are autistic and it’s difficult more cuz of sensory issues and needing comfort safe foods… I mean my kids are 9 and 11 and they don’t even want soda. They only tried root beer cuz of a root beer float and they hated it. And for me too I’m a “picky eater” but that’s also cuz I’m autistic and have the eating disorder AFRID. Which has nothing to do with sugary foods as a kid i didn’t want candy I wanted my canned peas and canned green beans over sweets lol

I don’t think it matters that much about first foods. More so how you wean in general. Like in my experience babies that ate purred food past 9 months had a hard time with textures.

I think whether or not a person ends up being a picky eater is a result of both nature and nurture. Definitely expoing your child to healthy, whole food from the start (I recommend Solid Starts program 100%) will help them to be less picky and, more importantly will give them the nutrients and fiber they need. However, some people are just never gonna like cilantro, no matter how many times they try it, and that is ok! We don’t need to like everything as adults. Added sugar should flat out be avoided until age two, because sugar is like crack for babies (pediatricians all agree) and yes because if you start out eating the tastiest, most lab-engineered food-like products (i.e ultra processed foods) on earth, why would your taste buds every be satisfied with a banana? 🍌

Disagree as both kids were fed the same way. My youngest is very fussy and tends to eat sweeter vegetables like carrots and corn on the cob. She would eat jars as a baby over home made probably because of the sugar and salt content but I tried them more as she wouldn’t eat what I made her.

Solid Starts say that it doesn’t matter what kind of food you start with

Solid stats gives parents a list of very specific foods to start with - all of them Whole Foods and foods prepared in such a way that they don’t cause choking hazards. Of course the parent can choose from that list, but the foods are specific.