Researchers in the North East have found that babies react in the womb to what their mothers eat.
For the first time, scientists recorded evidence that babies react differently to various smells and tastes while in the womb by recording their facial expressions, and it has been found that they grimace when they taste and smell greens, but smile for carrots. 4D ultrasounds scans were taken by Durham University of 100 pregnant women to study how their unborn babies responded after being exposed to flavours of foods eaten.
Experts looked at how the babies reacted to either kale or carrot flavours shortly after they had been ingested. Foetuses exposed to carrot showed more "laughter-face" kale induced more "cry-face" responses.
