- Introduce different flavors early -- in the womb. That healthful diet with a variety of flavors and colors will introduce your tiny diner to excellent food for optimal development now and in the future!
- Enforce familiarity when breastfeeding. Foods in your diet flavor
breast milk. Try to aat the foods that you'd like your toddler and preschooler to enjoy more often.
- Baby see, baby do... If your baby sees you eating healthy foods, those same "goodies" will be the most desired later.
- Think outside the jar. Make your own colorful, flavor-filled foods for your tiny gourmet. Check out these baby food tips.
- Offer your adventurous toddler a varied diet. To accept a food, toddlers must see and taste it -- even a familiar food -- over and over.
About the study: Beauchamp G, Mennella J. Flavor Perception in Human Infants: Development and Functional Significance. Digestion. A group of pregnant women was divided into three factions. One group drank carrot juice every day during their pregnancies, the second drank carrot juice while breastfeeding, and the third ate no carrots or carrot juice at all. When the children began eating solid foods, they were given cereal either made with water or carrot juice. Researchers found that the babies who had been exposed to carrot while in the womb or while drinking breast milk ate more of the carrot cereal.
What foods do you think your baby will end up liking?
