Why is it important to eat lots of different foods during pregnancy? For the best nutrition, obviously, but a new study from Penn State University also shows that pregnant women who eat a wide variety of foods expose their children to different tastes, as the flavor of amniotic fluid changes around week 13. Breastfeeding babies are exposed to a variety of different tastes through their mothers’ milk depending upon what moms eat. Formula fed babies do not experience this as their milk flavor is the same each time. So, eating a wide variety of vegetables and other whole foods during pregnancy and breastfeeding helps give babies a sample of what’s to come on their own plates. If you don’t want a picky eater, keep hitting that farmers’ market and breastfeed your baby!
