IT HAS BEEN RESEARCHED: UNBORN BABIES VOMIT FROM THE SMELL OF KALE

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: It has been researched: unborn babies vomit from the smell of kale.

Hahaha, those silly unborn babies! It turns out they find kale disgusting. Maybe they first need to come out to experience how incredibly delicious an old-school kale stew can be, but while they are still in the womb, they apparently don't like it. How does that work?

Researchers have looked at how fetuses in the womb, aged between 32 and 36 weeks, react to different flavors. Tests were conducted by giving the mother two different flavor capsules, and if it were up to the unborn babies, there was a very clear winner:

Clear favorite
Carrot. The little ones generally loved it. And how was that conclusion drawn? At Durham University in England, the facial expressions of unborn babies were observed after the mother had eaten something specific. According to researcher Nadja Reissland, it is new that facial expressions of fetuses can be studied in this way.

Doing powder
It also became clear that flavors and smells from the mother's diet were perceivable to the fetuses through the amniotic fluid. Whether they could also distinguish was specifically examined, and thus the ‘reaction’ in the face was taken into account. The mothers were divided into two different groups, one group received capsules with carrot-flavored powder and the other with kale-flavored powder.

To vomit
I don't know if I could have held back my laughter at seeing the facial expression of the babies who got ‘kale’: grimaces and crying faces were observed. Poor little ones... And with the carrots? Something that definitely looked like a smile. Just wait kids, one day you might be whining that you want to eat kale stew again, even though it's high summer and you've already had it twice that week. Or, for the even more developed sprout: kale pesto.

What turns out, as the British newspaper The Guardian writes, is that if babies in the womb are already introduced to many different flavors, they may become less picky eaters later on. Maybe just keep pushing through, with some Brussels sprouts right after.
 
We have the solution
We only wonder: have they tried it with the flavor of fried kale? Because that would surely be something even the pickiest unborn baby couldn't resist? And to the mothers: we wish you soon a plate of kale stew with the best matching wine.