British research has succeeded in capturing the response of babies, still in the womb, to food ingested during pregnancy.
Would it be possible for ours? do food preferences come “from birth”? In an attempt to answer this curiosity, a new study conducted by the Fetal and Neonatal Research Laboratory at the University of Durham, UK, made an impressive discovery!
The researchers performed 4D ultrasound scans of 100 pregnant women – between 32 and 36 weeks of gestation – to assess how the babies would respond while still in the womb. to the taste of the food consumed by mothers.
Pregnant women were instructed to ingest capsules containing 400 mg of carrot or cabbage powder about 20 minutes before each exam, and guess what: the expressions of the little ones who were fed the orange vegetable they were associated “laughing features”while the green vegetables caused “faces that cry”. Check the expressions:
What does it mean?
For scientists, the results published in the journal Psychological Sciences they are revealing and could help in future studies on children’s taste development. “We think that repeated exposure to flavors before birth has possibility of establishing food preferences after childbirth“commented researcher Beyza Ustun in a note to the Medical Xpress.
Furthermore, scientists also believe that what pregnant women eat during the pregnancy period has the potential to do so influence the preferences of children after birth.
“We can argue that repeated exposure to flavors while in the womb can lead to a preference for foods already tried in the future. In other words, exposing the fetus to less ‘tasty’ sensations, such as those generated by cabbage, manages to accustom it to these flavors while it is still in the womb “adds scientist Jackie Blissett.
The next step in the research is now to examine whether children will demonstrate less negative responses to tastes already experienced. over time.
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