Studies of How Mothers' Diets Affect Newborns' Taste Preferences Revealed

question 153

Multiple Choice

Studies of how mothers' diets affect newborns' taste preferences revealed that:

• A) the flavors of the mothers' diets do not influence infants' taste preferences.
• B) infants of mothers who drank carrot juice in their third trimester and while breastfeeding were more averse to carrot-flavored cereal than infants without such exposure.
• C) infants of mothers who drank carrot juice in their third trimester and while breastfeeding were more tolerant of carrot-flavored cereal than infants without such exposure.
• D) although mothers' consumption of strong flavors (e.g., garlic) influence infants' taste preferences, their consumption of milder flavors (e.g., carrots) does not.

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Ectoderm

The outermost layer of cells or tissue of an embryo in early development, giving rise to the epidermis and nervous system.

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