Confirming what many of us already knew or assumed to be true, this article in today's Scotsman shares some recent findings between how what we eat in pregnancy influences our child's palate...
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Taste for healthy food starts with mother's milk
GARETH ROSE
WOMEN who eat healthy food while pregnant or breast-feeding can give their children a life-long taste for it, researchers have found.
The study could spell the end of dinner table battles as parents try to convince youngsters to eat fruit and vegetables.
Pregnant women are being urged to adopt a stealth approach to familiarising their unborn offspring accustomed to foods such as broccoli, cabbage and sprouts, which they may otherwise reject when they are growing up.
Julie Mennella, of the Monell Chemical Senses research institute in Philadelphia, said: "Flavours from the mother's diet are transmitted through amniotic fluid and mother's milk. A baby learns to like a food's taste when the mother eats that food on a regular basis."
Read online here
Taste for healthy food starts with mother's milk
GARETH ROSE
WOMEN who eat healthy food while pregnant or breast-feeding can give their children a life-long taste for it, researchers have found.
The study could spell the end of dinner table battles as parents try to convince youngsters to eat fruit and vegetables.
Pregnant women are being urged to adopt a stealth approach to familiarising their unborn offspring accustomed to foods such as broccoli, cabbage and sprouts, which they may otherwise reject when they are growing up.
Julie Mennella, of the Monell Chemical Senses research institute in Philadelphia, said: "Flavours from the mother's diet are transmitted through amniotic fluid and mother's milk. A baby learns to like a food's taste when the mother eats that food on a regular basis."