Images from fetuses in the womb show they smiled after their mothers ate carrots but scowled over kale, a new study released this week shows.
of 99 pregnant women and their fetuses in England, researchers gave the mom's capsules containing powdered versions of the two foods., consisted of white British women between the ages of 18 and 40.
Thirty-five of them ingested a one medium-sized carrot, and 34 women consumed the equivalent of 100 grams of chopped kale. The remaining mothers didn't ingest either food. Twenty minutes later, researchers said, 4D ultrasound scans showed most of the fetuses exposed to kale appeared to grimace, while most exposed to the carrot appeared to be laugh. The control group, meanwhile, did not have the same responses.
"We show the first direct evidence that fetuses react to the flavors of the foods eaten by their mothers,"
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