It's pretty common knowledge, either though received wisdom or through
research, that flavors of foods a mother eats can be transmitted
through breastmilk. I remember looking in vaguely troubled curiosity at
an ever so slightly green bottle of pumped milk when I’d been on a
salad kick while nursing my daughter, and back when I was nannying in
college the mom I worked for pumped milk for me to feed the baby and it
sometimes smelled of garlic, which I always thought was kind of cool.
I came across this study from the University of Copenhagen
that not only tested out the flavor theory, but studied what flavors
transmitted best and for how long, between bananas, menthol, caraway
seed and licorice (obviously, not super common North American flavors,
but still interesting).
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