Giving babies salty food may create a lifelong preference

Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 15:00 in Biology & Nature

 Feeding young babies solid foods such as crackers, cereals and bread may set them up for a lifelong preference for salt. And though babies are born with a clear preference for sweet foods and distaste for bitter foods, they appear indifferent to salt in the first few months of life.

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