Oh, that's actually sort of pretty, all the tiny details of the tree. However, I found this post by searching around for purple sweet potatoes. Introduced these to my son a couple days ago...he hated them, mad drama ensued, I dug in my position (FINISH THEM!), he stayed firm on his (tears), I backed off, sort of.
This evening, we were at the store. I jokingly pointed out the purple sweets, his reaction was, uh, caustic. Was curious to know if this is a common kid reaction to purple s.p. He likes the orange ones just fine. This is very confusing for me.
I haven't tried to give them to a little kid - sorry, I can't help. Sometimes kids don't want to eat something unexpected... I guess it could be introduced as a completely different food - maybe they wouldn't have an expectation attached to it? How old is your son?
I don't know, it's the strangest damn thing. I mean, my son is six years old, he's vegan, he eats just about everything (mom's malaysian, so he eats spicy everything too) that grows out of the ground. He absolutely loved the color of them. We literally juice either kale, collards, or chard every day. Lost!
I was starting to think that perhaps the purple s.p. are haunted, inherently evil, or perhaps just perceived as some sort of black hole by my son and he's afraid to be sucked into them and separated from his parents forever. It's weird and it sucks because they are quite delicious and I doubt I'll buy them again :(
Or maybe just buy a small amount for yourself and eat them without even offering them to him. Just make a happy face every time you eat them. then, they might become interesting to him. Now, maybe he is reacting to having cried about it the first time he ate them...
good for you that you juice so much. I used to - now, I do mostly green smoothies.