When people hear "breast milk," they assume it tastes awful because it comes from human breasts. Yet everyone is well-informed that breastfeeding benefits babies because breast milk is acknowledged as the most complete form of nutrition for infants. It contributes to the infant's health, growth, immunity and development.
In a new viral video, adults were given breast milk to taste. It was an interesting opportunity for adults to react on the taste and smell of the milk. Before the test, the tasters first gave their predictions on what the milk would taste like.
Tasting breast milk for the first time as an adult, most volunteers learned that breast milk does not smell bad at all. In fact, all of them were surprised that the taste was rather good. The video provides the various reactions the volunteers showed while looking at, smelling and tasting breast milk.
The reactions of the volunteers after tasting breast milk from human breasts were surprisingly astounding because their expectations were nothing compared to what they tasted.
Having the complete nutritional value that cannot be replaced by other food sources such as formula milk, doctors promote breast milk as the best food introduced to infants at birth. In fact, the American Association of Pediatrics dubbed breastfeeding not only a beneficial source of nutrition, but also an avenue for an emotional mother-infant bonding.
Breast milk benefits the infant in a wide array of reasons. First, it protects the baby from diseases caused by pathogens by boosting the immune system. The breast milk contains natural antibodies given from the mother.
It also contains secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) which binds with molecules of foreign proteins such as pathogens and keeping them from being absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract into the infant. Hence, the risk of diarrheal diseases which can pose potentially dangerous complications to babies is decreased.
Moreover, breast milk protects the baby from the occurrence of childhood asthma, allergies, childhood cancers, ear infections and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The mother also benefits from breastfeeding because it reduces the risk of breast cancer, postpartum depression, and weight gain.
Now before tasting breast milk yourself, you might want to check out the adults' reactions first in the video shown.
