A few weeks ago a really interesting article was posted on one of my favourite blogs: The Scoop on Nutrition. The title immediately caught my eye in my RSS feed: 6 things you need to know about your taste for salt.
Personally, if Iand#8217;m choosing a treat, then itand#8217;s salt all way. Iand#8217;ll take hot chips over chocolate any day. Thatand#8217;s why I was very interested to read that our taste for salt is developed at around 6 months of age when we start solid foods, and that our threshold level is directly related to how much salt we are given at this age.
Itand#8217;s something I wish I had known around 10 months ago, since Poppy is now 16 months old. Not that she has much salt in her diet and#8211; I monitor that very closely and#8211; itand#8217;s just that she has been allowed, on occasion, to have one or two chips and she absolutely loved them. Even though I licked most of the surface salt off, Iand#8217;m sure there was still plenty in there for her to get a taste for it!
Do you have a sweet or a salty tooth?
Christie x
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