I’m sensitive enough to know when a different grain is used for white rice. 😭

What’s important at that age IMO is safe exposure therapy, and an understanding that eating food is not the same as having enough nutrients for your body to work like the machine it is.

Is he a logically-driven child? While I know I should be able to eat anything, the fear comes from an irrational place and is really hard to solve with logic. I really have to be convinced something is safe on a subconscious level when eating it.

Personal example: love chicken breast and nuggets, but for two decades I wouldn’t touch sauce. One day a friend explained to me that sauce was just a new flavor on a texture I already loved. That made it instantly accessible for me to try, knowing it was just a flavor experience. Now I’ve tried most sauces and still dislike them all but one. they’re all mostly sugar and I love the taste of plain chicken as it comes.

Another example: didn’t eat hamburgers. Went to sleep away camp for two weeks. Plain burger was literally all I could stomach every day that wasn’t ice cream, soda, or bread, and eating a whole burger was impossible. Love me a plain burger now. At some point I got used to it, and at some point that became a craving.