Does your child not eat certain foods? Find out about eating difficulties

The period of food introduction is usually a challenge for many parents and guardians. While the family tries to introduce different options into the child’s routine, the child may encounter obstacles such as selectivity and food difficulties. But do you know the difference between each of these?

According to speech therapist Carla Deliberato, who specializes in patients with eating difficulties, the condition of food selectivity is when the child is reluctant to accept some types of food, whether by taste, texture, odor or appearance.

In general, children with food selectivity tolerate all food groups, which include carbohydrates, fruits, vegetables and legumes, and proteins of both animal and plant origin. For example: she doesn’t eat all kinds of animal protein, but she’ll accept chicken, at least.

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Children with eating difficulties, on the other hand, find it less easy to accept foods from all groups and may come to disregard one or more entire food groups. For example: she never eats any type of animal protein, regardless of the type of preparation and the situation.

“I receive in my office many patients with ‘extreme’ food selectivity, and this difficulty is classified as a pediatric eating disorder, as stated in Resolution No. 659 of the Federal Council of Speech Therapy, published in 2022. In the case of eating difficulties, the child he doesn’t even want to know or is interested in a new food and often when he gets close to that food he can also experience nausea and vomiting. She is very bothered by the texture and smell of the food”, says the specialist.

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