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The diet of the future mother engraves on the composition of the maternal blood and, accordingly it influences the liquid amniotico, through which the fetus receives the different gustatory stimuli.
After the birth, the explorations of the maternal food universe continue with the nursing. Many foods influence the taste of the milk and his/her children they recognize since the first days of life the aromas typical of the maternal feeding, those that, probably you/they have already learned to know before the birth. An example is given by the fact that, normally, the aroma of determined foods able to modify the taste of the milk (for example the garlic), the babies they don't disturb whose mother has consumed that same foods during the whole pregnancy.
After the infancy, with the puberty, the apparatus sensoriale is subsequently modified. They change particularly the taste and the sense of smell: the strong and definite tastes as the salty one and the spicy one, mostly attract, while at times it is decreasing the passion for the dessert. In this phase of the life, the boy tries to free him from the family conditionings, you/he/she tries to become emancipated and you/he/she vindicates his/her own independence and identity. Also the taste him ago expression of these changes and it is in this period that different tied up alimentary preferences appear to the sex and the aesthetical models imposed by the society (the females for example, have the tendency to refuse the food in great measure in comparison to the males).

IMPORTANT!!! His/her parents' attitude
Generally it is not the case to force the alimentary choices of his/her/their child exploiting his/her preferences of taste. For example, to force to eat him/it a food that doesn't suit him, with the promise then to be able to consume a dessert, it has the double negative effect of the forced food make even more hateful and to load the sweets of an exaggerated (if from small they constitute the prize for a desired behavior, from adults you/they can become the mean to take comfort from the frustrations) affective value. Still resulted worse they get the small blackmails of the type: "if you don't eat the vegetable you don't go to play", or: "he/she eats the fish and you can see the television." Specific (performed by Birch) studies have shown that, in the large majority of the cases, his/her children accent the antipathy toward the food.
To educate to the taste his/her child, is better rather to resort to the mechanisms of the social suggestion, proposing the undesirable foods in a common context, where adults or other children show to appreciate them. A practical example: if a baby doesn't eat the fruit, you/he/she can be reserved him a place, during the scholastic refection, to the table with some companions that instead appreciate (better if the companions are some most biggish) her/it. After a certain period it is probable that the baby ends with to accept the fruit and arrivals to appreciate her/it straight.
To 4-5 and over, the refusal of the food is to the agenda and often understands to interpret this refusal as a whim. In reality his/her children are almost always in degree to motivate their choices and it are important to listen to them. The sensibility to the tastes is modified and you/he/she can also happen that a food, before pleasant, doesn't like anymore suddenly. Also other characteristic organolettiche as the aspect, assume a great importance in to determine the relationship with the food. His/her child that meticulously analyzes the juice of the pasta to discard every bit of onion doesn't do whether to practice, to his/her way, his/her own senses and his/her own criterions of choice. Also understands that I/you/he/she come to refuse a food without not even having tasted him/it. This must not also worry: it is a delicate period, in which you/they always take great consistence the symbolic and cultural meanings of the food.

To taste the food is not only a matter of pleasure, but also safety. Through the senses the organism picks up information on the quality of the foods. If these information "they don't convince", immediate attitudes of defense go off: the odor of you determine harmful substances it makes to cough or to sneeze, as the taste of an altered food can induce the vomit to expel him/it.
The taste, a factor of self-regulation
You/he/she is always tried to investigate if the taste is used by his/her/their children for autoregolarsi in the assumption of the food. To this intention, already in the years '30, aroused a lot of interest the experiments conducted by the American pediatrician Clara Davis, that held in observation for a certain period a group of 15 children of inclusive age between the 6 and the 11 months. His/her children, welcomed in the hospital when they were still babies, you/they had never tasted solid foods; their was offered the possibility of a diet completely autogestita, introducing an ample variety of foods that every baby you/they could freely choose. It dealt with foods from the simple taste, composed by an only ingredient and not assistant of salt (you/he/she was made apart for the one who wanted to serve him of it available). After 6 months of observation, all the babies enjoyed of good health and you/they had succeeded in altogether choosing alone him a well balanced diet.
With the growth, the innate tastes suffer different changes, modifying himself/herself/itself and modeling himself/herself/itself under the influence of emotional, cultural and social conditionings. The imitation is the principal way to learn some child: parents, brothers, sisters, schoolmates, are everybody models that he/she for instance takes. At the same time, it explores the surrounding world, besides with a certain distrust. It is normal, in fact, that manifest him that that is called neofobia to 4-5, that is a certain tendency to refuse the proposal of new foods. According to some studious ones, this phenomenon would be the expression of an ancestral conflict, common to all the omnivors: from a side the necessity to satisfy the needs of the organism widening the range of foods, from the other the demand to protect from the tied up risk of poisonings to the experimentation of new foods.
The odors
Even more of the taste, the sense of smell has a fundamental importance in the approach with the food. You are enough to think about the work that does him to "to feel the tastes" when you/he/she is cooled. Besides, unlike the language that is able of to distinguish only few chemical characters, the nose recognizes hundreds of different substances and does him/it with a very great sensibility.

The fundamental tastes
The man is able of to distinguish four fundamental tastes: the dessert, the acid, the bitterness and the salty one. According to some theories, the ability to recognize these four tastes would be matured in the human kind as demand to distinguish the most proper foods for its feeding. The predilection for the sweet foods, could be connected for example to the fact, that as a rule they furnish a lot of energy, as the natural refusal of the bitter foods could be correlated to the fact that a lot of natural toxic substances are, for the note, to love.
The sour taste is perceived above all on the sides of the language, the bitter taste feels him especially in the back part, the salty one it is appreciated better along the anterior border, while on the point he finds a great sensibility to the sweet tastes