Pregnant mums should eat veggies: study

Researchers from Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, found babies can build up a taste for healthy foods in the womb. In a study, they found flavours were passed from mother to baby via the amniotic fluid.A group of pregnant women were divided into three. One group was asked to drink carrot juice every day during their pregnancy, another during breastfeeding and a third to avoid carrots completely. When the children began to eat solid food, researchers fed them cereal made with water or carrot juice.They found babies who had experienced carrot in their amniotic fluid or mother’s milk ate more of the carrot-flavored cereal.The scientists said that because mothers tend to feed their children what they eat themselves, it is nature’s way of introducing babies to foods and flavors they are likely to encounter over their lifetimes.