In general it's very strange for children to not like healthy food if you look at from the frame of evolution.
Evolution tries to give children the ability taste which foods are good for them. For that purpose it created a mechanism that allows kids to learn which food to eat.
Parents everywhere teach children that vegetables are bad.
There multiple ways parents do that teaching.
The most well known is to give unhealthy food as a reward for good behavior.
One way is giving a child some food while showing to the child that one is susceptible about food-child (unconscious learning happens on that level).
If that child rejects the food it's brain forms a stronger taste against the food for the future.
Some parents repeat that progress to really install a strong dislike in their children against that food.
I think this is a case where you should never ask a question where you don't know the answer and the answer might be that the child rejects the food (especially if the child tastes the food) or forces himself to eat the food.
Both actions on part of the child increase the childrens dislike of the food.
I also think that the blender is the solution against the problem.
Use the blender to mix an amount of vegetables into the childs food where the child still likes his food. That trains the childs taste to accept the vegetables as "good food".
I haven't tried that approach myself, but I think it's a lot more likely to succeed than the things parents usually try.
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