The Prenatal Diet

What your mother ate during her pregnancy affected what you enjoy eating:

… One group drank water during the last trimester of pregnancy and then carrot juice during the first two months of lactation; a second group drank carrot juice during pregnancy, and water during lactation; and a third group drank just water during both pregnancy and lactation.

A few weeks after the babies began eating cereal but before they had ever been exposed to the taste of carrots, the researchers videotaped the infants as they were fed cereal prepared with water, then cereal prepared with carrot juice.

They found that infants who had been previously exposed to carrots exhibited fewer negative facial expressions while eating the carrot-flavored cereal compared with the plain cereal, whereas infants in the control group - whose mothers drank only water - displayed no difference. Moreover, those babies exposed to carrots prenatally ate more of, and were perceived to enjoy, the carrot-flavored cereal compared with the cereal and water.

If you want your kids to eat their vegetables, then you better eat yours