For your preference of salty food products, researchers have blamed the food you had during the first few months for your being. Recent research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, has revealed that two to six months for an infant is a very crucial period for a baby to develop taste for food.

If he has been fed solid products which were high on salt then there are high chances that he would develop taste for salty thing for whole of his life. Research being carried out by the researchers from Monell Chemical Senses Center, US, has revealed that they have just found a correlation and further study needs to be done on it.

In order to reach the conclusion, lead author Leslie Stein tested 61 infants, all aged between two to six months. In order to check their salt preference, they were given salty water and it was assessed that how much they were able to consume in a minute.

Their mothers were also asked to tell whether they feed them starchy food or not. It was found that those who were two month old have not developed taste for salty water. But, six-month-old kids, who have habit of having starchy food, liked to have salty water.

The researchers said they followed 26 children till the time they reached pre-school age. They found that children exposed to starchy food were the ones who liked to lick surface salt on food.

Researcher Leslie said, “More and more evidence is showing us that the first months of life constitute a sensitive period for shaping flavor preferences”. This is not enough to announce the cause of salt liking among people. Infants develop taste for sweet, and then for salt. So, it is important to study different aspects to reach the conclusion.