Highlights
We investigated children’s avoidance of foods contaminated by native speakers and foreign speakers.
Older children are better at understanding that contaminated foods may make them sick.
Younger children are more willing to eat native foods, even if they are contaminated.
With age, children become more like to avoid foods they rated as germy.
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