Based on academic research revealing that babies have three times as many taste buds as adults, and even additional taste buds in their cheeks, the Big Tastes Menu includes ‘taste-amplified’ brussels sprouts and super-strength strawberries.
The Ella’s Kitchen Big Tastes Menu includes foods recreated as babies might taste them, with a flavour intensity of up to 10 times what a seasoned adult palate would normally experience. The big taste sensations make sweet foods even sweeter but exaggerate the bitterness of other foods, such as brussels sprouts, helping to explain babies’ extreme reactions of delight or dislike of new foods.
The Ella’s Kitchen Big Tastes Menu was unveiled to the public for the first time at the Hackney Homemade food market in London, with tasters being offered free for a trial period.
The research shows that there are major physiological differences between the way babies and adults experience food. While babies are born with around 30,000 taste buds in a tiny mouth, many of these are lost with age, and the average adult has only 10,000 taste buds that are largely restricted to their tongue.
Paul Lindley, Ella’s dad and founder of Ella’s Kitchen, said: “By creating the Ella’s Kitchen Big Tastes Menu, we are trying to help parents understand what babies really taste and explain why they have such strong reactions to new foods. Believe me, the taste of a strawberry multiplied by 10, just like a baby experiences, is amazing.”
Source: Ella’s Kitchen
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