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How to Help Your Child Learn to Eat Pork
January 2022
Last reviewed: January 2022
Author:
Alysha Fagan
Coauthors:
Johane Filemon, MS, RDN, CLT
Alexandria Delozier, PHD
Laura Petix, M.S. OTR/L
Erinn Jacobi, M.S. OTR/L
Stefanie Kain, B.S. M.Ed
Elizabeth Cotter, MPH, RDN
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Alysha Fagan
Coauthors:
Johane Filemon, MS, RDN, CLT
Alexandria Delozier, PHD
Laura Petix, M.S. OTR/L
Erinn Jacobi, M.S. OTR/L
Stefanie Kain, B.S. M.Ed
Elizabeth Cotter, MPH, RDN
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Laurel was getting ready to go over to her friend Cecelia’s house for the weekend. She was excited to spend the weekend at a friend’s but felt butterflies in her stomach when thinking about the food situation. Laurel was a picky eater, and she always felt uncomfortable going to her friend’s homes in fear that there wouldn’t be anything for her to eat.
In Cecelia’s family, they cook a lot of pork and Laurel wasn’t familiar with that food yet. She didn’t know too much about it. When she arrived, they had dinner and, as she feared, Cecelia’s parents served shredded pork tacos with pineapple salsa. This meal had a lot of different flavors for a picky eater like Laurel. She picked at the tortilla and tried to eat as much as she could so she didn’t appear rude.
“You aren’t eating!” Cecelia’s mom commented to Laurel. “Aren’t you hungry? I smoked this pork all day and it’s so delicious. Just try a bite of everything mixed together, that’s the best way.”
“It smells great, but I ate before I came,” Laurel lied, worried about seeming ungrateful for the meal. The rest of the night she couldn’t sleep because her stomach was growling so much.
Feeding picky eaters like Laurel can sometimes take a lot of energy. If your child refuses to eat pork, this guide can help make it easier for you. We’ll teach you how to get your kids to eat pork. You will learn:
Many parents wonder if pork is good for kids and toddlers. Here’s a breakdown of some of the nutritional benefits of pork.
Did you know that a 3.5-ounce serving of cooked pork contains a whopping 25.7 grams of protein? Protein is an essential macronutrient which helps our children’s muscles and bones develop as they grow.
Pork is also high in thiamin, which helps to convert carbohydrates, proteins and fats so they can be used by our children’s body through a process called metabolization. Thiamin is mainly found in animal proteins making pork a great source of thiamin for your child.
These are some of the many benefits of pork. Cecelia’s parents must have known about the benefits for kids of eating pork because they often served it in their home.
Pork is a very versatile meat option for children. There are different cuts of pork such as pork chops, pork tenderloin, spare ribs, and more. Ground pork is one of the easier ways to start serving pork to your picky eater as it is the easiest variety to chew and swallow. Ground pork is great in tacos, stuffed peppers, nachos, eggrolls, fried rice, and it also makes great meatballs and burgers. Pork can show up at breakfast by way of bacon, sausage or shredded pork with eggs and home fries. Shredded pork mixed with your child’s favorite barbecue or tomato sauce makes for a great sandwich. The options for serving pork to kids and toddlers are endless!
Another hack for serving pork to picky eaters: micro portions. What’s a micro portion? It is a mini taste of a food, small enough that it is barely even a sample. Think about the size of your pinkie nail. The next time you serve pork to your picky eater, give them one small chunk of the ground meat instead of an entire spoonful of ground meat.
Our final advice for how to serve pork to picky eaters is removing or avoiding pressure at mealtime. Pressuring kids into eating certain foods often backfires and can make kids more resistant to trying new foods.
Pressure can look and sound like a lot of different things. Here are some examples of ways a parent might pressure their child:
“Shredded pork is just like shredded chicken. Try it in your taco now!”
“Make sure to try a bite of the pork before you excuse yourself.”
“Look, everyone else is eating the pork. You can do it too!
In our story, Cecelia’s mom was concerned about Laurel being hungry since she wasn’t eating dinner. She unknowingly tried pressuring Laurel into trying the pork by mentioning how long she worked on cooking it. Her intentions were in the right place, but she could not convince Laurel to eat it.
If you’ve shared a meal with a picky eater, you may have heard them use unpleasant words to describe their eating experience. Fussy eaters often use negative words when talking about their food. Phrases like, “this dinner is too smelly,” or “I will never eat pork because it is yucky,” may be the start of dinner debates at your table. These negative comments about food reinforce picky eating and the ideas that the food is bad or not going to taste good.
We can help our picky kids work through this! As grown-ups, we can use neutral language when speaking about food and model this language in front of our kids. Over time, you may notice your children picking up the same objective language about food that you are using!
Once your child starts thinking about new foods differently, it opens their mind to the idea that they could try the food in the future. Neutral comments about food allow children to make their own objective opinions about what they put into their body.
While changing the way we speak about food in front of children is extremely important to reversing picky eating, it is but one strategy of several designed to tackle picky eating.
Here are some words you can use to describe pork objectively to your selective eater:
Tan or brown
Salty
Small smell
Chewy
Juicy
Crispy (bacon)
Cecelia’s mom mentioned to Laurel that trying a bite of the taco mixed with the salsa was “the best way” to try the food. Laurel wasn’t ready to try the pork yet, and certainly not while it was mixed with another new food like pineapple. Instead, she could have said, “Pork is salty and the pineapple salsa adds sweetness.”
How to Help Your Child Understand What Pork Does in Their Body
Have you ever tried to reason with your kid or toddler to take “just one bite” of their dinner only to end with your child refusing to eat the food? There is an easier way. You have our permission to quit the bargaining and try a new strategy today!
The fact is, when we start to label foods as “yummy” or “healthy,” selective eaters often believe that we are trying to trick them into eating the food and their resistance grows (along with their picky eating habits). Instead, try focusing on what the foods do inside their body. When we share age-appropriate facts about different foods with our kids, they begin to make the connection between the foods they eat and how their body feels when they eat them.
Here are some messages about pork that you can share with your picky eater:
Age 0-3: Brown foods give you energy to play.
Age 3-5: Pork helps your body grow stronger.
Age 6-11: Pork has something called protein. Protein helps you grow taller and gives your bones and muscles their strength.
Age 12-18: Pork contains protein that helps your muscles and bones grow. It also has thiamin, which helps to convert the nutrients in pork into a form that can be used by your body.
When talking about pork with Laurel, it could have been impactful for Cecelia’s mom to discuss the function that pork has inside her body. She could have said, “Pork contains protein that helps your muscles grow strong for your softball competitions.”
Food play activities are a fun and engaging way to familiarize your picky eater with pork – or any new food! The reason? Desensitization. “Desensitize” means that your child’s body becomes more familiar to a food such as pork. This way when your child is served pork again, it doesn’t seem so brown, so juicy, or so different to them. When your child’s body and brain gets used to pork, they can learn to taste it. They could end up learning to like it as well!
You may have always been told not to play with your food growing up, and that’s okay! Food play doesn’t have to always happen at mealtimes and it doesn’t have to be super complicated with a lot of elements. You can involve your child in the purchasing or preparing of a new food, or clearing the dishes after a meal. Another option is to prep and set up activities and opportunities for hands-on play, like the one we provide below. Picking something that works with your schedule and your capacity level is the most important thing!
Remember, it is very common for fussy kids to need multiple experiences with a particular food before they are ready to try it.
Playground Play Scene
Age: 2+
Materials
1 cooked, boneless pork chop
Legos/blocks
Kid’s favorite figurines
Plate
Directions
Shred pork chop with a fork. The shreds will act as “woodchips.”
While it cools, wash legos, blocks or figurines thoroughly. Have your child wash their hands as well.
Lay the shredded pork down on a plate, covering the surface.
Create some stairs, slides, or other playground type elements from the blocks for smaller children who need help becoming inspired. Older children will lead the way in creating a playground scene.
Pose the figurines around the scene as if they are playing in the playground.
When done, if there is leftover pork, mix with bbq sauce and put in the refrigerator to use for a sandwich later.
Note: Having your child help with shredding the pork is an added exposure element for children who are ready for this type of interaction.
Thanks for being part of our community that’s teaching kids to eat more foods!
Baylin, Jonathan. “Behavioral Epigenetics and Attachment: The New Science of Trust and Mistrust.” The Neuropsychotherapist 1, no. 3 (2013): 68–79. https://doi.org/10.12744/tnpt(3)068-079.
Benson, Jeryl D., Carol S. Parke, Casey Gannon, and Diane Muñoz. “A Retrospective Analysis of the Sequential Oral Sensory Feeding Approach in Children with Feeding Difficulties.” Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention 6, no. 4 (2013): 289–300. https://doi.org/10.1080/19411243.2013.860758.
Berk, Laura E. Development Through the Lifespan. 7th ed. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc., 2018.
Bodison, Stefanie C., and L. Diane Parham. “Specific Sensory Techniques and Sensory Environmental Modifications for Children and Youth with Sensory Integration Difficulties: A Systematic Review.” American Journal of Occupational Therapy 72, no. 1 (December 2017). https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2018.029413.
Brescoll, Jennifer, and Steven Daveluy. “A Review of Vitamin B12 in Dermatology.” American Journal of Clinical Dermatology 16, no. 1 (2015): 27–33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40257-014-0107-3.
Candow, Darren G., Philip D. Chilibeck, and Scott C. Forbes. “Creatine Supplementation and Aging Musculoskeletal Health.” Endocrine 45, no. 3 (2013): 354–61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-013-0070-4.
Case-Smith, Jane, and Jane Clifford O’Brien. Occupational Therapy for Children. Maryland Heights, MO: Mosby/Elsevier, 2010.
Cooke, L. “The Importance of Exposure for Healthy Eating in Childhood: A Review.” Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 20, no. 4 (2007): 294–301. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-277x.2007.00804.x.
Copple, Carol, and Sue Bredekamp. Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs: Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2008.
Hagan, Joseph F., Judith S. Shaw, and Paula M. Duncan, eds. Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents (Pocket Guide). 4th ed. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017. https://brightfutures.aap.org/Bright%20Futures%20Documents/BF4_POCKETGUIDE.pdf.
Min, Kyoung-Chul, and Yoo-Im Choi. “Review of Effectiveness Sensory Integration Therapy on Feeding and Oral Function of Children Focus on Single-Subject Research Design.” Journal of Korean Society of Occupational Therapy 29, no. 1 (2021): 101–13. https://doi.org/10.14519/kjot.2021.29.1.08.
Papalia, Diane E., Ruth Duskin Feldman, and Sally Wendkos Olds. Human Development. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2009.
Parham, L. Diane, Gloria Frolek Clark, Renee Watling, and Roseann Schaaf. “Occupational Therapy Interventions for Children and Youth with Challenges in Sensory Integration and Sensory Processing: A Clinic-Based Practice Case Example.” American Journal of Occupational Therapy 73, no. 1 (January 2019). https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2019.731002.
Pasiakos, Stefan M., Tom M. McLellan, and Harris R. Lieberman. “The Effects of Protein Supplements on Muscle Mass, Strength, and Aerobic and Anaerobic Power in Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review.” Sports Medicine 45, no. 1 (2014): 111–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-014-0242-2.
Roley, Smith Susanne, Erna I. Blanche, and Roseann C. Schaaf. Understanding the Nature of Sensory Integration with Diverse Populations. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed, 2007.
About Kids Eat in Color
Created by experts, Kids Eat in Color is the leading resource for families seeking evidence-based information and strategies on child nutrition and feeding.
Alysha is the Program Manager for Kids Eat in Color. She leads initiatives and creates content to helps caregivers reduce stress and help their kids thrive at mealtime. Prior to joining Kids Eat in Color, Alysha project managed and built high-performance Customer Service teams for Top corporations. She is currently working towards a political science degree to fulfill her passion of advocating for systemic change in government. She enjoys being a mom, lifting weights (you heard that right!), and writing.
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Laurel was getting ready to go over to her friend Cecelia’s house for the weekend. She was excited to spend the weekend at a friend’s but felt butterflies in her stomach when thinking about the food situation. Laurel was a picky eater, and she always felt uncomfortable going to her friend’s homes in fear that there wouldn’t be anything for her to eat.
In Cecelia’s family, they cook a lot of pork and Laurel wasn’t familiar with that food yet. She didn’t know too much about it. When she arrived, they had dinner and, as she feared, Cecelia’s parents served shredded pork tacos with pineapple salsa. This meal had a lot of different flavors for a picky eater like Laurel. She picked at the tortilla and tried to eat as much as she could so she didn’t appear rude.
“You aren’t eating!” Cecelia’s mom commented to Laurel. “Aren’t you hungry? I smoked this pork all day and it’s so delicious. Just try a bite of everything mixed together, that’s the best way.”
“It smells great, but I ate before I came,” Laurel lied, worried about seeming ungrateful for the meal. The rest of the night she couldn’t sleep because her stomach was growling so much.
Feeding picky eaters like Laurel can sometimes take a lot of energy. If your child refuses to eat pork, this guide can help make it easier for you. We’ll teach you how to get your kids to eat pork. You will learn:
The Benefits of Pork for Kids
Many parents wonder if pork is good for kids and toddlers. Here’s a breakdown of some of the nutritional benefits of pork.
Did you know that a 3.5-ounce serving of cooked pork contains a whopping 25.7 grams of protein? Protein is an essential macronutrient which helps our children’s muscles and bones develop as they grow.
Pork is also high in thiamin, which helps to convert carbohydrates, proteins and fats so they can be used by our children’s body through a process called metabolization. Thiamin is mainly found in animal proteins making pork a great source of thiamin for your child.
These are some of the many benefits of pork. Cecelia’s parents must have known about the benefits for kids of eating pork because they often served it in their home.
Related: Struggling with picky eating? Learn more about helping picky eaters.
How to Serve Pork to Picky Eaters
Pork is a very versatile meat option for children. There are different cuts of pork such as pork chops, pork tenderloin, spare ribs, and more. Ground pork is one of the easier ways to start serving pork to your picky eater as it is the easiest variety to chew and swallow. Ground pork is great in tacos, stuffed peppers, nachos, eggrolls, fried rice, and it also makes great meatballs and burgers. Pork can show up at breakfast by way of bacon, sausage or shredded pork with eggs and home fries. Shredded pork mixed with your child’s favorite barbecue or tomato sauce makes for a great sandwich. The options for serving pork to kids and toddlers are endless!
Another hack for serving pork to picky eaters: micro portions. What’s a micro portion? It is a mini taste of a food, small enough that it is barely even a sample. Think about the size of your pinkie nail. The next time you serve pork to your picky eater, give them one small chunk of the ground meat instead of an entire spoonful of ground meat.
Our final advice for how to serve pork to picky eaters is removing or avoiding pressure at mealtime. Pressuring kids into eating certain foods often backfires and can make kids more resistant to trying new foods.
Pressure can look and sound like a lot of different things. Here are some examples of ways a parent might pressure their child:
In our story, Cecelia’s mom was concerned about Laurel being hungry since she wasn’t eating dinner. She unknowingly tried pressuring Laurel into trying the pork by mentioning how long she worked on cooking it. Her intentions were in the right place, but she could not convince Laurel to eat it.
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How to Talk About Pork to Help Your Child Try It
If you’ve shared a meal with a picky eater, you may have heard them use unpleasant words to describe their eating experience. Fussy eaters often use negative words when talking about their food. Phrases like, “this dinner is too smelly,” or “I will never eat pork because it is yucky,” may be the start of dinner debates at your table. These negative comments about food reinforce picky eating and the ideas that the food is bad or not going to taste good.
We can help our picky kids work through this! As grown-ups, we can use neutral language when speaking about food and model this language in front of our kids. Over time, you may notice your children picking up the same objective language about food that you are using!
Once your child starts thinking about new foods differently, it opens their mind to the idea that they could try the food in the future. Neutral comments about food allow children to make their own objective opinions about what they put into their body.
While changing the way we speak about food in front of children is extremely important to reversing picky eating, it is but one strategy of several designed to tackle picky eating.
Here are some words you can use to describe pork objectively to your selective eater:
Cecelia’s mom mentioned to Laurel that trying a bite of the taco mixed with the salsa was “the best way” to try the food. Laurel wasn’t ready to try the pork yet, and certainly not while it was mixed with another new food like pineapple. Instead, she could have said, “Pork is salty and the pineapple salsa adds sweetness.”
Related: Learn more about picky eating and how to reverse it.
How to Help Your Child Understand What Pork Does in Their Body
Have you ever tried to reason with your kid or toddler to take “just one bite” of their dinner only to end with your child refusing to eat the food? There is an easier way. You have our permission to quit the bargaining and try a new strategy today!
The fact is, when we start to label foods as “yummy” or “healthy,” selective eaters often believe that we are trying to trick them into eating the food and their resistance grows (along with their picky eating habits). Instead, try focusing on what the foods do inside their body. When we share age-appropriate facts about different foods with our kids, they begin to make the connection between the foods they eat and how their body feels when they eat them.
Here are some messages about pork that you can share with your picky eater:
Age 0-3: Brown foods give you energy to play.
Age 3-5: Pork helps your body grow stronger.
Age 6-11: Pork has something called protein. Protein helps you grow taller and gives your bones and muscles their strength.
Age 12-18: Pork contains protein that helps your muscles and bones grow. It also has thiamin, which helps to convert the nutrients in pork into a form that can be used by your body.
When talking about pork with Laurel, it could have been impactful for Cecelia’s mom to discuss the function that pork has inside her body. She could have said, “Pork contains protein that helps your muscles grow strong for your softball competitions.”
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Pork Food Activity
Food play activities are a fun and engaging way to familiarize your picky eater with pork – or any new food! The reason? Desensitization. “Desensitize” means that your child’s body becomes more familiar to a food such as pork. This way when your child is served pork again, it doesn’t seem so brown, so juicy, or so different to them. When your child’s body and brain gets used to pork, they can learn to taste it. They could end up learning to like it as well!
You may have always been told not to play with your food growing up, and that’s okay! Food play doesn’t have to always happen at mealtimes and it doesn’t have to be super complicated with a lot of elements. You can involve your child in the purchasing or preparing of a new food, or clearing the dishes after a meal. Another option is to prep and set up activities and opportunities for hands-on play, like the one we provide below. Picking something that works with your schedule and your capacity level is the most important thing!
Remember, it is very common for fussy kids to need multiple experiences with a particular food before they are ready to try it.
Playground Play Scene
Age: 2+
Materials
Directions
Note: Having your child help with shredding the pork is an added exposure element for children who are ready for this type of interaction.
Thanks for being part of our community that’s teaching kids to eat more foods!
References
Arnarson, Atli. “Pork 101: Nutrition Facts and Health Effects.” Healthline. Healthline Media, March 28, 2019. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/pork#nutrition.
Baylin, Jonathan. “Behavioral Epigenetics and Attachment: The New Science of Trust and Mistrust.” The Neuropsychotherapist 1, no. 3 (2013): 68–79. https://doi.org/10.12744/tnpt(3)068-079.
Benson, Jeryl D., Carol S. Parke, Casey Gannon, and Diane Muñoz. “A Retrospective Analysis of the Sequential Oral Sensory Feeding Approach in Children with Feeding Difficulties.” Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention 6, no. 4 (2013): 289–300. https://doi.org/10.1080/19411243.2013.860758.
Berk, Laura E. Development Through the Lifespan. 7th ed. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc., 2018.
Bodison, Stefanie C., and L. Diane Parham. “Specific Sensory Techniques and Sensory Environmental Modifications for Children and Youth with Sensory Integration Difficulties: A Systematic Review.” American Journal of Occupational Therapy 72, no. 1 (December 2017). https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2018.029413.
Brescoll, Jennifer, and Steven Daveluy. “A Review of Vitamin B12 in Dermatology.” American Journal of Clinical Dermatology 16, no. 1 (2015): 27–33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40257-014-0107-3.
Candow, Darren G., Philip D. Chilibeck, and Scott C. Forbes. “Creatine Supplementation and Aging Musculoskeletal Health.” Endocrine 45, no. 3 (2013): 354–61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-013-0070-4.
Case-Smith, Jane, and Jane Clifford O’Brien. Occupational Therapy for Children. Maryland Heights, MO: Mosby/Elsevier, 2010.
Cooke, L. “The Importance of Exposure for Healthy Eating in Childhood: A Review.” Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 20, no. 4 (2007): 294–301. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-277x.2007.00804.x.
Copple, Carol, and Sue Bredekamp. Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs: Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2008.
Hagan, Joseph F., Judith S. Shaw, and Paula M. Duncan, eds. Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents (Pocket Guide). 4th ed. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017. https://brightfutures.aap.org/Bright%20Futures%20Documents/BF4_POCKETGUIDE.pdf.
“Iron: Fact Sheet for Consumers.” NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, March 22, 2021. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iron-Consumer.
Kramer, Paula, Jim Hinojosa, and Tsu-Hsin Howe. Frames of Reference for Pediatric Occupational Therapy. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2020.
Milestone Moments: Learn the Signs, Act Early. Atlanta, GA: Department of Health & Human Services USA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/pdf/parents_pdfs/MilestoneMomentsEng508.pdf.
Min, Kyoung-Chul, and Yoo-Im Choi. “Review of Effectiveness Sensory Integration Therapy on Feeding and Oral Function of Children Focus on Single-Subject Research Design.” Journal of Korean Society of Occupational Therapy 29, no. 1 (2021): 101–13. https://doi.org/10.14519/kjot.2021.29.1.08.
Papalia, Diane E., Ruth Duskin Feldman, and Sally Wendkos Olds. Human Development. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2009.
Parham, L. Diane, Gloria Frolek Clark, Renee Watling, and Roseann Schaaf. “Occupational Therapy Interventions for Children and Youth with Challenges in Sensory Integration and Sensory Processing: A Clinic-Based Practice Case Example.” American Journal of Occupational Therapy 73, no. 1 (January 2019). https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2019.731002.
Pasiakos, Stefan M., Tom M. McLellan, and Harris R. Lieberman. “The Effects of Protein Supplements on Muscle Mass, Strength, and Aerobic and Anaerobic Power in Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review.” Sports Medicine 45, no. 1 (2014): 111–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-014-0242-2.
“Pork Nutrition.” Pork.org. National Pork Board, July 1, 2021. https://pork.org/nutrition/pork-nutrition/.
“Preschooler Development.” MedlinePlus. U.S. National Library of Medicine, July 2, 2021. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002013.htm.
Roley, Smith Susanne, Erna I. Blanche, and Roseann C. Schaaf. Understanding the Nature of Sensory Integration with Diverse Populations. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed, 2007.