A U.K. study offers a rare look via ultrasound at how fetuses react to foods their mothers eat.
The study offers a rare look at how fetuses respond to flavors in real time.
"We are the first ones who could actually show on an ultrasound scan the facial expressions in relation to the food which the mother has just consumed," said Nadja Reissland, a co-author of the study and the head of the Fetal and Neonatal Research Lab at Durham University.depending on a pregnant person’s diet.
He noted, however, that"there is the notion that newborns and infants will have a preference for sweeter flavors, and there are evolutionary ideas behind that." "I had a number of people in the lab, and I tried to give them a kale juice to drink, and you should have seen the expressions," Reissland said.
Reissland thinks her study could improve our understanding of how exposure to flavors in the womb affects eating habits later in life. If a fetus repeatedly tastes kale in the womb, for instance, that baby may be more likely to tolerate — or even enjoy — the flavor once it starts eating solid food.
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