Mothers´ diet influence on food acceptance during weaning : a systematic review

• Autor(a) principal: Moreira, Ana Rita Soares
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33775
• topic: Mothers’ diet; Infants; Food acceptance; Weaning; Complementary feeding; Alimentação da mãe; Crianças; Aceitação de novos alimentos; Diversificação alimentar; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Naturais::Ciências Biológicas

First year of life infants start defining their food preferences and eating behaviors, which will track into adulthood influencing dietary habits later in life. Eating behaviors evolve and change from an exclusive milk diet through a complementary feeding until familiar diet. Weaning starts between 4 and 6 months and it’s the period when caregivers start introducing solid foods. There are several and complex factors influencing initial responses to the introduction of new foods. As some flavors may pass through amniotic liquid and breast milk it was hypothesized that mothers’ diet could affect food acceptance during weaning, through flavor learning. Mothers may also influence some children through modelling. And so, mothers’ eating habits may influence food acceptance during weaning. However, there are still few studies focusing in role of mothers’ diet as a predictor of food acceptance during weaning and so further researches are needed to better understand the role of mothers’ diet.