In a study published in Pediatrics, researchers found that the food a pregnant woman eats changes
the flavor of her amniotic fluid and in turn changes the types of foods the babies enjoyed when they started eating solids.
Not exact matches
«A wide variety
of flavors either ingested (e.g., fruit, vegetables, spices) or inhaled (e.g., tobacco, perfumes) by the mother are transmitted to her
amniotic fluid and / or milk, significantly increasing in intensity in milk within hours after consumption.
Their research suggests that taste and olfactory systems operate in utero within the
amniotic fluid and that breast milk serves as a sort
of flavor bridge to the time
of weaning.
Baby's sense
of taste is also becoming more sensitive and baby will react to strong tastes from spicier foods you eat, which
flavor the
amniotic fluid.
As your baby tastes the
amniotic fluid, he has his first experience
of various
flavors.
«And just like the European rabbit, the babies who had experienced carrot in
amniotic fluid or mother's milk ate more
of the carrot -
flavored cereal,» says Mennella.
To determine if
flavors are passed from the mother to the the baby via the
amniotic fluid, researchers gave women garlic capsules or sugar capsules before taking a routine sample
of their
amniotic fluid — and then asked a panel
of people to smell the samples.
Like
amniotic fluid, breast milk carries the
flavors of your own diet.
Certain foods have an effect on
amniotic fluid's
flavor and this is nature's way
of preparing your baby for the taste bud stimulation they'll get in the world.
A mother's
amniotic fluid contains the
flavors of foods she eats every day.
Generally, the dominant
flavors of your diet — whether soy sauce or chili peppers — were in your
amniotic fluid during pregnancy.
The
flavors of those veggies may actually shape your baby's taste preferences via the
amniotic fluid, and make your baby more likely to accept these healthy foods when they are introduced later in infancy.
The
flavors of some foods, such as carrots, garlic, and vanilla, wind up not only in mother's milk but even in
amniotic fluid.
Traces
of the
flavors of the foods mothers eat are perceptible in their breast milk and
amniotic fluid.