The smell of mother's milk determines the child's taste

Want children not to eat green vegetables, mothers should eat more vegetables during breastfeeding, according to a new study published by American scientists.

Children are often exposed to low levels of flavor from foods that their mothers tolerate
through breast milk.Photo: Getty Images

Scientists at the Monell Research Center (USA) found that children's taste buds began to form in the age of 2 to 5 months after birth. This process of taste formation is greatly influenced by the mother's diet during breastfeeding. Babies who are breastfed with bitter and sour milk will tend to eat vegetables when they grow up.

The Telegraph newspaper quoted Dr Gary Beauchamp, who led the study, said children can sense the taste of the foods that their mothers are fed with breastmilk. Therefore, children tend to like to eat foods that mothers eat during breastfeeding.

A recent scientific study also found that the mother's diet during pregnancy greatly influenced the taste of children when they were born. Children tend to eat foods that mothers usually eat during pregnancy.

The study was recently published by Dr. Gary Beauchamp at a recent conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington. This study was also published in the American Clinical Nutrition magazine.