你是否希望在孩子眼中是一个超赞的烹饪者、一个贴心的母亲/父亲？
在晚餐的时候为大家准备足够的蔬菜吃可能是个不错的办法。
近日国外有研究人员对此进行了试验。
在第一个试验中，500位美国母亲假设自己在准备日常的一餐。她们可以从常见的5种肉类中选择一种，可以添加蔬菜作为配菜也可以不加。选择中包括了像牛排、鸡肉、面条等主菜，也包括了马铃薯、西兰花、面包棒等配菜。那些在准备这一餐中选择了一种蔬菜的母亲被认为是更好的烹饪者，并且受试者认为含有像西兰花等蔬菜的配菜会使得主菜看起来更美味。这项研究的负责人Brian Wansink称：“尽管他们不怎么喜欢吃蔬菜，但是如果含有一些蔬菜就会让他们觉得这份餐更美味。”
在第二个试验中，相同的500人看了一位名为Valerie的女性的日常记录，包括她起床、去上班、办事、为家庭成员做晚餐、睡觉前与丈夫一起看电视等。在一个版本中，Valerie在准备晚餐时使用了冷冻的四季豆，而在另一个版本中没有用。看完Valerie的日常后，受试者被要求描述一下Valerie这个人怎样。结果发现当Valerie的晚餐中包括了四季豆时人们更倾向于用“体贴”、“细心”、“有能力”来形容Valerie。而当她没有在晚餐中准备蔬菜时，则更多的被评价为“粗心”、“自私”和“没有生活情趣”。
人们通常会选择在晚餐时食用一些蔬菜，然而只有23%的晚餐其蔬菜量是足够的。“如果家庭成员想食用更多的蔬菜，可以从晚餐开始。在晚餐中加入蔬菜不仅使家人觉得你是个非常棒的烹饪者，孩子们也会认为你是细心的家长”Brian Wansink称，“我在两天之内得到这个研究结果，然后我改变了自己的烹调方式。以前总会找借口说太累了，不想准备蔬菜，现在哪怕没有其他的选择了，我至少也会开罐四季豆罐头。”
原文：Cornell Food & Brand Lab. (2015, June 26). Want to be seen asmore loving and a better cook? Serve vegetables to your kids. ScienceDaily.Retrieved June 28, 2015 fromwww.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150626083917.htm
翻译：朱晓倩
In the first study, 500 American mothers were presented with one of five common meat-based hypothetical meals that either contained a side vegetable or no vegetable. The five meals included entrees such as steak, chicken, and lasagna and sides such as potatoes, broccoli and breadsticks. Those who were presented with a meal including a vegetable side, such as broccoli, indicated that the main dish would taste better and that the server was a better cook. "Simply having a vegetable on the plate made the whole meal be perceived as tastier," said lead author Brian Wansink, PhD director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of Slim by Design, "Even if they didn't particularly like the vegetable."
In the second study, these same 500 people read a day-in-the-life story of a woman named Valerie as she woke up, went to work, ran errands, made dinner for her family, and watched TV with her husband before going to bed. In one version of the story she prepared frozen green beans with dinner and in the other version she didn't. After finishing the story, people were asked to describe Valerie as a person. When Valerie's day included serving green beans she was more likely to be described as "thoughtful," "attentive" and "capable." When she was not described as serving a vegetable, she was more often described as "neglectful," "selfish" and "boring."
Families are most likely to consume vegetables at dinner time, yet only about 23% of dinners contain a full serving of vegetables. "If families want to eat more vegetables, dinner's the place to start. If you serve vegetables at dinner, not only will your family think you're a better cook, they'll also think you're a more loving parent," said Dr. Wansink, "Within two days of discovering this, I changed the way I cook. I no longer say I'm too tired to make a vegetable. If nothing else, at least I open up a can of green beans."
