You are what your mum ate: A baby's tastes starts in the womb

Tests have shown that what mums eat during pregnancy is easily detectable in her amniotic fluid, and that is what flavours a baby's taste for food.

It may be a survival mechanism that’s come back to bite us on the bum, but human beings are born to love sweets. We love them even when we’re in the womb. Some 15 to 16 weeks after conception, foetuses will show their sugar appreciation by swallowing more amniotic fluid when it’s sweet, and less when bitter.