Food Preference Develope In Womb Flashcards
Babies start to develop preferences from
Certain flavors in womb
Flavors in womb are delivered via
Amniotic fluid
Flavors then delivered via
Breast milk
Flavors delivered Can impact
Lifelong eating habits
Most researched flavors easily available in amniotic fluid and breast milk (g,c)
Garlic
Carrot
Most researched flavors easily available in amniotic fluid and breast milk (a,a,v)
Alcohol
Anise
Vanilla
Fetus’s develop _ around 16 wks
Pores in taste buds
Pores in taste buds allow fetus to
Identify basic tastes
Fetus’s swallow more amniotic fluid when it is _ rather than bitter
Sweet
Children are hardwired to prefer tastes that signal
Beneficial nutrients
Sweet tastes signal
Calories
Bitter tastes signal
Poison
Children/fetus have innate penchants for (2)
Salt
Umami
Most of our food preferences are
Learned
Food preference learning also comes
Before birth
From as early as _ wks, fetus can detect complex flavors a few hours after mother has eaten
21
Complex flavors are (2)
Garlic
Carrots
Children who have tasted more carrots in utero and breast will
Happily eat carrots in weaning
What babies eat in utero and milk May also be unhealthy, leading to
Unhealthy preference
Eat varied diet when pregnant and nursing so
Baby eats wider variety of food
If you forgot to eat variety of foods during pregnancy, you can
Introduce while weaning
Variety pregnant, feeding, weaning reduces likelihood of them developing _ later in life
Neophobia
Neophobia is
Aversion to food
Garlic flavor comes from
Allicin
Allicin only forms when
Cloves are crushed
Taste and flavor perception are central to
Development of food preferences
Taste and flavor perception both begin in womb due to changes in (2)
Gustatory system
Olfactory system
Taste and flavor perception both begin in _ trimester
First
Olfactory bulb and nerves _
Detect all smells
Orthonasal olfaction senses _
Smells rising from the nasal cavity
Retronasal olfaction senses _
Smells rising from oral cavity
_ in tongue identify taste
Sensor cells
Taste sensation results from activation of _ in mouth
Gustatory system taste cells
Taste sensations result from
Neutral pathways
Taste sensation results from _ in brain
Gustatory Cortex
Tastes that we are limited to salty, sweet, bitter (2)
Sour
Umami
Thousands of different odors stimulate the _ to create smell sensations (2)
Olfactory bulb
Nerves in nasal cavity
Flavor perception is the result from the integration of _
Taste and smell sensory systems
Odors senses orthonasally and retronasally combine with _ to create flavor sensations
Tastes detected in oral cavity
Food allergies affect _ Americans
32 million
Food allergies affect _ children under 18
5.6 million
1 in _ children have allergies
13 (2 in each classroom)
