the types of foods that a child starts out eating is very important to establishing a dietary pattern. true or false

Given statement is True

Explanation:

From pre natal stage to infancy child start taking liquids in form of mother's breast milk and thereafter water and other liquid foods. Up to 6 months they continue to intake only liquid items parallelly as supplements of mother's milk if required.

Then they start to take rice, cereals and pulses with some little quantity of vegetables like potato, carrot, beans etc which are easy to digest. Because in this stage a child's digestive system is under forming process. Besides they start taking some diary items like yogart, paneer, custard in 9-12 months with some fruits also. This is very essential to develop dietary pattern of a child.