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Unexpected Elements

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Is Your Sensation of Smell Really Important?

The sense of smell factory system is fully functional by three months of gestation. This means that the foetus developing inside the mother is capable of detecting the chemical compounds of anything she's eating. And this actually sets the stage for food preferences that are so diverse culturally. A baby born in south east asia has already been exposed to various spices and other kinds of volatile compounds from what its mother was eating while pregnant with that baby.

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