Fruit

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One sticky banana can make the whole word fruit taste of suspicion for years. The cards below let your child meet each fruit with their eyes first, long before it touches the tongue.

Fruit

An illustration of various fruits: a red apple, purple grapes, an orange, a peeled banana, and a half kiwi.

Pile of mixed fruit

A pile of fruit and berries: an apple, a banana, an orange slice, grapes, a pear, a lime, a strawberry and blueberries.

Blue bowl of fruit

A blue bowl filled with a banana, a red apple, grapes, an orange and half a kiwi.

Fruit

A red apple, a half-peeled banana and a bunch of purple grapes.

About this visual support

Fruit is not one category to a child, it is many wildly different experiences. A crisp green apple, a soft peach, a sour lemon and a banana with brown spots share nothing on the tongue. If one of them once dropped a seed in the throat or tasted strange, the word fruit can lock itself as risky, even for varieties the child has never tried.

With visual support, you can make tasting visual first. The picture shows the shape, the colour and what sits inside, so the child grasps the structure before the tongue meets it. Smell and texture become two separate steps instead of one surprise.

A tip that works for many families: lay out three cards, one green fruit, one yellow, one red, and let the child pick which gets to sit next to the plate. No requirement to eat it, only that it gets to be there. Then build a family fruit library in Routined to keep track of what works. Try the app free for 14 days.