This treat will tempt the palates of young and old alike. Children will enjoy helping prepare this dessert. In fact, kids are helping out in the kitchen in great numbers these days. A 1999 survey of children found that 88 percent of boys and girls ages 6 to 17 fix themselves meals and snacks regularly. The children said cooking is fun, and they like being able to choose the type and quantity of foods they eat, along with when they eat.
Children can also learn skills beyond food preparation in the kitchen.
Since food preparation is also an art, the experience can be a creative outlet as well. While children usually are concerned only with the immediate satisfaction they receive from food, most adults at some point begin to think how nutrition affects their long-term health. Not only is fruit a colorful topping for dessert pizza, research is showing that the pigments responsible for the lovely colors may also be lovely for your health. Blueberries, in particular, have been a topic of interest for nutrition scientists. A study using elderly rats as subjects showed that eating the human equivalent of a cup of blueberries daily improved their balance coordination and short-term memory.