It is discovered that children can be introduced to vegetables even while they are in the womb.

A recent study has revealed that children can be accustomed to eating vegetables even while they are in the mother's womb. At a time when feeding vegetables to young children has become a major challenge for parents, a research team including Durham University in Britain has made this unique discovery.

Researchers gave a group of pregnant mothers capsules containing carrot and kale vegetable powder, and then observed the facial expressions of the fetuses in the womb using ultrasound scans. The research paper states that fetuses exposed to the taste of carrots showed positive reactions such as smiling, while fetuses exposed to the smell of kale showed reactions such as grimacing.

The results of this experiment were continuously monitored until the children were three weeks old and three years old, and it was confirmed that children repeatedly exposed to the taste of a certain food in the womb had a lower tendency to react negatively to the smell of those foods later in life. This makes it clear that children retain the memory of the taste and smell of foods consumed by their mother during pregnancy for several years.

According to Dr. Beyza Ustun-Elaan of Cambridge University, the mother's diet silently influences the child's future food preferences. Professor Nadja Reissland, leader of the research team, points out that by adapting this method to suit various cultures and dietary patterns, a healthy population can be created in the future.

However, researchers emphasize that the way aromatic substances contained in materials such as artificial sweeteners and toothpaste affect the fetus needs to be further investigated extensively. Scientists from universities in France and the Netherlands also contributed to this study, which was published in the journal "Developmental Psychobiology", and it has opened up a new avenue for thinking about children's early eating habits.