Incredible study images babies responding to taste of kale in the womb

[CentralMass]

https://newatlas.com/science/baby-taste-womb-pregnancy-imaging-faces-kale/

"An extraordinary new study has recorded the first evidence of babies in the womb reacting to flavors of foods eaten by their mothers. The stunning images show fetuses crumpling up their faces in disgust minutes after a mother consumes bitter kale or smiling with glee in the presence of sweet carrot flavors."

[Tree-Hugger]

1. Even the unborn

....know shit when they taste it.

[malaise]

2. Humans love what kills us fastest

Ha😀

[Bettie]

3. Isn't Kale what they used to use

to cover the ice up at salad bars?

Seriously, if you like it, go for it, but I find the taste bitter and awful.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. "smiling with glee"

[maxsolomon]

5. Funny. Kale is an advanced flavor.

If you're going to eat it uncooked, I recommend massaging the leaves prior to dressing the salad. It can also macerate in the dressing for a while. Makes it much more palatable.

Cooked kale is fantastic, like most greens.

[Jirel]

6. Bogus study.

I’m amazed at all the people who have shared this ridiculousness.

Basic medical facts:

1. Fetuses can’t taste anything. They don’t take in anything by mouth, the only location for taste sensors.

2. The images are highly suspect. Muscles are not yet well developed for smiling and even less for frowning.

Political fact:

Sharing this idiocy only plays to the trolls who want to claim a fetus is a baaayyyy-beeee to oppress women.

[Nevilledog]

7. 100% agree

[Pobeka]

10. +1 !

[CentralMass]

11. The post was meant for some entertainment and discussion

However Durham’s Fetal Neonatal Research Lab. Durham University, seems pretty legitimate. Maybe you should contact them with your expertise on the matter to let them know that their findings are bogus.

https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/current/research-news/fetuses-react-to-taste-and-smell-in-the-womb/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976221105460

[Maraya1969]

13. You make sense.

[Cairycat]

14. your first point is not true

Fetuses swallow amniotic fluid, which is flavored by what the mother ingests.

[NutmegYankee]

8. Isn't kale just a broccoli leaf?

It isn’t bitter at all. At least to those with the right combo of TAS2R38.

[Hortensis]

9. The unborns with flavor preferences were studied at 32-36 weeks' gestation.

Wish I'd known this when I was pregnant. I didn't inflict bitter greens, but also never touched carrots. And I would have choked them down.

It's going to be a real advance if we discover that (to-be-born) babies can be encouraged to like certain foods because their mothers ate them (or didn't) while they were in utero.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. Might as well start teaching them early

that it's not all popcorn and lollipops out there. And you even have to walk and breathe for yourself. A certain percentage may well say to themselves, "Screw that crap. I like it in here and I'm not leaving."