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Taste for Healthy Food Starts in Womb
December 02, 2007 at 1:57 PM
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According to researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a research institute in Philadelphia, women who eat healthy food while pregnant or breast-feeding can give their children a life-long taste for it.
Researchers say that the study could spell the end of dinner table disputes as parents try to convince youngsters to eat fruit and vegetables.
It suggests that pregnant women should adopt a stealth approach to familiarising their unborn offspring adapted to foods such as broccoli, cabbage and sprouts, which they may otherwise reject when they are growing up.
Flavours from the mothers diet are transmitted through amniotic fluid and mothers milk. A baby learns to like a foods taste when the mother eats that food on a regular basis, Times Online quoted lead researcher Julie Mennella, as saying.
In one experiment carried out by the institute, a group of pregnant women were given a lot of carrot juice. After birth their children were fond of carrots than those of women who had not been given the juice.
The technique worked just as well with fruit. The children of women who ate raw peaches while pregnant were more likely to enjoy them.
Another trial was carried out on new mothers who were breast-feeding. The women started eating green beans and their children were offered them as well.
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