‘Eat your greens,’ mums say. If they eat theirs while pregnant, baby will too, study finds

Mothers who want their toddlers to eat their greens should consume these food items during the late stages of pregnancy, researchers say.

A recent study found that newborn babies showed a positive response to the smell of foods they were exposed to in the womb.

The research, led by Durham University in the UK, studied the facial expressions of three-week-old babies whose mothers had regularly taken either kale or carrot powder.

Infants who had been exposed to carrot capsules ingested by their mothers were noted to react favourably to the smell of carrot.

Similarly, those whose mothers had taken kale powder capsules while pregnant reacted positively to that vegetable’s scent.