You may want to know that medical researchers have found that by adding sweet tastes and flavours, it helps kids to swallow liquid medications as they often refuse to take medicines due to its bitter flavour.
The study, which was presented at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, found that a child's rejection of bitter medicine and bitter-tasting food like spinach and other green vegetables is a reflection of their basic biology. Researchers have noted that children are born with a much stronger preference for sweet flavours, a reason that may also explain why infants are naturally attracted to mother’s milk.
The medical studies also discovered that babies begin developing their unique tasting profile while still in the womb. What a mother eats while pregnant and nursing enhances a newborn's acceptance of food, thus the more fruits a mother eats when she is pregnant, the more a child will accept fruits and vegetables.
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