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Parents hope that children are not picky about eating , just like adults, eat everything.
Children don’t understand why parents like broccoli , bitter melon, bitter wild vegetables and other strange foods .
The "generation gap" between parents and children is determined by the taste system.
The baby's taste, coupled with their own natural curiosity, can help them explore the vast world. This article
will tell you about our feelings about food and the evolution of taste.
The baby's taste development
tml0The baby's taste begins to develop in the uterus. When the 9th week of pregnancy , their mouths, tongues and the first tiny taste buds have already formed.
Amniotic fluid in the uterus surrounds the baby and they swallow this fluid naturally, which helps the development of their lungs and digestive system .
The foods eaten and the taste of the pregnant mothers will enter amniotic fluid through the blood; when the baby swallows amniotic fluid , they will experience various flavors for the first time.
Baby can also smell them, so whether you eat sweet , salty or spicy foods, your baby will taste them with you.
After birth, the baby's taste buds are very sensitive. They can to recognize sweet and sour flavors, but prefer sweet , which is one of the reasons why they like the taste of breast milk.
Taste and smell are linked. Babies also have a developed sense of smell when they are born. They can smell milk powder and breast milk , and even smell the difference between their mother's breast milk and other people's mother's breast milk.
The baby's taste has a good development at birth, but as the baby grows up, their reactions to different tastes will change.
→Newborn until 3 months, taste buds are sensitive to
At this stage, the baby's taste is very sensitive to . In fact, as a baby, the taste buds in their mouth are distributed more widely than those in adults.
The taste buds of newborns can be found in common locations such as tonsils and tongue .
In the first three months, your baby can distinguish between sweet and bitter , and they prefer sweet , such as the taste of breast milk.
These taste bud differences also make children highly sensitive to bitterness . Although this may make children reluctant to eat vegetables, also play an important role.
Our bitter receptor helps us detect toxic compound . The more sensitive children are to bitter, the less likely they are to eat something that may poison them.
Essentially, the child's taste buds are a useful security mechanism for .
→3 to 6 months, Explore the food period
to 3 months old, the baby's tongue has grown up, you may notice that they put things into their mouths, such as toys or blankets, which indicates that they are using the tongue to try to understand different textures and flavors .
Don't dissuade your baby from putting things in your mouth as long as they are safe, this is a great learning opportunity.
However, be sure to do baby protection at home to avoid suffocation and toxic things.
→6 to 12 months, explore solid food
After only breast milk or formula milk powder for 6 months, when you start introducing solid food, the new flavor will surprise your baby. actually has such hard products, and the taste is actually not bad?
Baby will be a little hesitant about new flavors and textures at the beginning and will test them carefully. If you don’t like it for the first time, you can ask him to eat more. It is generally recommended to try new foods about 8 times.
to about 7 or 8 months old, your baby has the ability to try finger food (you can grab or pinch foods with your hands).
This is a great opportunity for them to try new flavors and can give them a variety of soft fruit or vegetable to explore different textures.
→Start picky about food, it has a lot to do with the mother
Baby will tend to like the taste of foods that have been exposed to in the uterus.
Moreover, they will immediately like the taste of some foods, and will also particularly hate some foods.
They will mimic adult responses to food , so it is best not to show a disgust for food in front of them, especially when you try to encourage them to eat healthy food.
The type of food the baby likes when he grows up may also depend on breastfeeding.
study shows that the different food molecules in breast milk will have a positive impact on the baby's taste buds and make them more open to eating different foods as they age.
During this time period, be careful of processed foods containing salt and sugar . Young kidneys cannot cope with too much salt, and sugar will cause to decay .
If your baby is exposed to processed foods too early, they may start to like them more and start to become more picky about food.
Suddenly one day, I want to eat anything
The baby's mouth is a way to explore, learn and understand the world around me.
For babies, mouth is more sensitive than fingers , the entrance thing gives the baby a more convenient way to understand different textures and flavors, including food and non-foods.
This is why babies like to put and they immediately into their mouths when they pick up toys, books and other items.
It is worth noting that the baby can and will put anything in his mouth, which means that you must be highly vigilant when playing with the baby.
Don't let your baby touch anything sharp, dirty or other dangerous.
You can help them learn by providing toys of age-appropriate babies with different textures and colors so that they can explore with their mouths.
When the baby is 12 to 18 months old, the number of times they explore and understand objects with their mouths is reduced, and eventually will stop this way of exploration .
When I was a child, I began to like natural foods
Children actually like natural foods instead of processed foods.
rated them higher in terms of deliciousness, safety and desirability.
Latest research found that this preference for food also exists in early and mid-child .
University of Edinburgh and Yale studied 137 children aged 6 to 10.
They got 3 apples and told them that one was grown on the farm, one was made in the lab, and the other was grown on trees in the lab.
Researchers found that children and adults prefer farm-grown apples, rather than those grown in the lab.
In the second study, 85 children aged 5 to 7 years old, and 64 adults, were shown 4 different orange juices.
One is described as freshly squeezed from the farm, one has no information about it, one is removed from chemicals, and the other is described as adding chemicals.
Researchers found that the naturalness of juice had a significant impact on participants' choice. Both studies show that
Both studies show that adults and children like to eat natural foods
Researchers said that these findings show that natural foods are good, and this belief can be established at the age of 5 or even younger.
This time period is very important. If you want to reduce the children's eating processed food, parents should set an example, eat less processed food, and drink less beverages.
Otherwise, the children at home may be kidnapped and troubled by processed food all their lives.
The key skinny dragon says
If children prefer to eat fruits and sweets rather than vegetables, it is normal. Fruits are sweeter and vegetables are bitter. Children are naturally sensitive to bitter taste, which is determined by genes.
Children's sense of taste is far more developed than adults.
However, through the guidance of adults, you can slowly start to like natural foods and slowly accept foods with a little odor, but you need to try them slowly, and don’t force them to eat them blindly.
It is normal to be picky about food, it is abnormal to not be picky about food. Few children are born to like to eat bitter melon.
Only adults can accept particularly bitter foods, and they even enjoy it. In fact, bitter taste is the taste that plants protect themselves, and it is not recommended to eat more. Related Reading → Eating too much bitter melon may damage the liver and kidneys. These people should pay special attention to...
During special time periods, try to let children eat less processed foods and develop the good habit of loving natural foods.
