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Unless you have been living in Outer Mongolia for the last two years, or watch no telly, read no newspapers and never eavesdrop in cafés, you will know that we are all supposed to be eating at least five potions of fruit or vegetables every day, according to the People Who Know. If we don’t, and live on lattes and cigarettes instead, we will shrivel up, get scurvy, look really ugly after the age of forty and die young, so it’s advice worth following. This advice goes for children too, although obviously three mummy-sized potions is equivalent to five kiddy ones, so don’t worry if they’re not quite fulfilling their quota. Scurvy is some way off yet if they’re eating any at all.

This is nothing very new, in fact: children have been told to ‘Eat Your Greens!’ for decades, and today’s young mange-tout munchers have it luckier than their predecessors, because the range and quality of fresh fruit and veg is really fabulous. No longer are bendy carrots and Granny Smiths the only options: these days a child can also refuse to eat bean sprouts, shiitake mushrooms, mangoes and passion fruit.

But however fresh, crunchy, tasty or ripe the food on offer, the age-old question of how to get kids to eat this stuff remains. Here are some ideas we have tried and have found to work: