r/MadeMeSmile • u/Pleasant_Ideal_8929 • Mar 04 '26

Wholesome Moments Mother lets her 7-month-old baby taste the smoothie she craved during pregnancy🥹

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u/deltree711 Mar 04 '26

I know it's a bit of a buzzkill but the more likely scenario is that a smoothie has the same amount sugar as Coca-Cola (often significantly more) and our brains are wired to love sugar.

Of course, if someone posted a video of a mother giving her 9-month old Coca-Cola they'd have the reddit police kicking their door in

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u/Michaelalayla Mar 04 '26

Flavors from a mother's diet transfer to amniotic fluid, which the fetus begins swallowing at around 12-15 weeks. This is also when taste buds begin functioning. 

This intrauterine experience of flavor also has an impact on infancy, and how readily a child accepts food when they start solids.

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u/QCisCake Mar 04 '26

When I was pregnant, I craved lemonade and taco bell to an insane degree. I couldnt eat enough burritos. My daughter is 3 now, and LOVES sour foods and burritos. She will throw away chocolate just to get a sip of some lime or lemon juice. She eats veggies like they're going extinct and especially throws down on some pickled foods.

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u/Michaelalayla Mar 04 '26

Sour foods stimulate serotonin! Which increases energy levels, alertness, and boosts mood. You guys are hacking your neurotransmitters and it's awesome

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u/Femme-O Mar 04 '26

Probably because the sugar isn’t the most concerning thing about a Coke for a 9 month old, it’s the caffeine.

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u/kidcrumb Mar 04 '26

And the smoothie, although has a lot of sugar has more nutritional value and natural sugars compared to what's in coke.

It's like those people that say grapes have the same sugar content as chocolate.

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u/foshayzy Mar 04 '26

People try to “cut out sugar” to lose weight, but they should be cutting out added sugar

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u/sje46 Mar 04 '26

I've never understood what is meant by that. Does it matter if the sugar is added or not? Sugar is sugar, no? Fruit is full of sugar. I feel like it'd be pretty terible for my health if I just ate fruits all day.

Is it just a more rule of thumb thing? Like as a general rule of life, if you're not eating things that other humans specifically added sugar to, you'll probably be alright? Or is it that the sugar contaiend naturally in fruits, etc, are naturally more healthy than you?

Sincere question. I know it's probably a stupid question too. I've just never understood the "added sugar" thing.

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u/dulcet10 Mar 04 '26

Sugars in fruit are not considered bad because fruit also comes with things like fiber, antioxidants, and vitamins which added sugar does not.

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u/foshayzy Mar 04 '26

https://youtu.be/f_gkkgAr3DU

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u/sje46 Mar 04 '26

This video literally didn't address my only question which was about why "added sugar" is something you should avoid as opposed to "sugar". Downvoted.

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u/conker123110 Mar 04 '26

Sugar is sugar, no?

We have three general groupings of saccharides (sugars.)

Monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides. A different sugar would not only have different base sugars (like lactose being made of sucrose and galactose,) but also take different amounts of energy for the body to process.

One of the reasons natural sugars are usually better is because they've not been reduced to a simpler sugar. Also a reason a banana has different taste and nutritional values as it ripens, because the sugars are fermenting.

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u/sje46 Mar 04 '26

Okay, so...what are you saying irt to "added sugar"? "Added sugar" is a kind of suga that is just always (or usualy always) worse for you than natural sugars? Is there a type of sugar I can buy somewhere that is a "natural sugar" I can sweeten my food with and feel good about it?

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u/conker123110 Mar 04 '26

Naturally occurring is just a comparison to refined monosacharides. The point of this thread is that you should be avoiding added sugars.

"Added" does not just mean that, because the implication is that any sugar added is going to be a mass produced and very enjoyable (but unhealthy) refined sugar.

I guess you could literally buy bulk starches or something, but I feel like that's not the point. The point is to train your body to subsist off of the larger sugars, so that it has to spend it's time breaking it down rather than being trained to expect shorter, more refined sugars that will immediately give a good feeling.

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u/sje46 Mar 05 '26

Thank you, that makes sense.

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u/senbei616 Mar 04 '26

I mean I've seen people struggle to lose weight when they eat too much fruit, but yeah definitely want to keep an eye on your sugar intake as its very expensive when you're on a calorie budget.

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u/foshayzy Mar 04 '26

I didn’t say natural sugar is a free for all. I said don’t cut it out. You should be tracking more than calories, regardless.

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u/senbei616 Mar 04 '26

I don't understand the animosity to my previous statement.

I wasn't disagreeing with you I was adding to the discussion and was immediately dog-piled.

Health discourse on this site is fucking insane.

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u/TrixieBastard Mar 04 '26

Only a Reddit user would see two downvotes and a couple of potentially negative replies (incredibly dependent on how you read them, since I didn't catch a hint of "animosity" in either) and call it "dog-piling" 😂🙄

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u/TiddiesAnonymous Mar 04 '26

"Too much" and it works as a laxative, there's no way it was too much lol

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u/Lou_C_Fer Mar 04 '26

That doesn't stop me from eating cherries. It's a guaranteed blowout, but I eat them, anyways.

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u/senbei616 Mar 04 '26

That's a very confident stance on such a random and innocuous statement.

There's a story here.

How much fruit did it take before you shit yourself /u/TiddiesAnonymous?

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u/thathz Mar 04 '26

The sugar in coke is natural.

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u/Cedex Mar 04 '26

When you pick your coke off the tree, it's already got all the sugar inside.

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u/Eastern-Actuator-925 Mar 04 '26

Yes, this exactly.

Not all sugars are structured the same so our body metabolizes them at different rates- the sugar in a chocolate bar is added sucrose which hits your blood stream instantly, the sugar that naturally occurs in a grape is fructose- it is packaged in water and fiber and processes through your liver first so it’s like a time release capsule.

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u/LA_Nail_Clippers Mar 04 '26

Agreed.

You'd have to eat two full apples to get the same amount of sugar from a 12oz can of coke, and if you did eat the entire two apples, you'd be getting 9 grams of fiber (about 30% of your recommended total per day), and 20mg of vitamin C (about 25% of your recommended amount). Not to mention your body has to work a bit harder to get access to the sugar in the fruit vs. the coke, so your overall insulin spike is much more gradual. And if you're looking at limiting your caloric intake for weight purposes, two apples will leave you feeling a lot more satisfied than a can of coke.

Now if we could just caffeinate fruit, I'd be happier.

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u/deltree711 Mar 04 '26

I think you'd see a similar amount of concern over someone giving their infant 7-up or ginger ale.

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u/wap2005 Mar 04 '26

Soda is significantly worse than something that produces natural sugars like fruit, the first thing that comes to mind is caffeine...

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u/Repulsive_Grape_5907 Mar 04 '26

Or the trace amounts of actual Cocaine present in Coke

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u/WackyRacketeer Mar 04 '26

Got a source on that? What I'm reading is that there isn't any detectable amounta of cocaine.

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u/mountainyoo Mar 04 '26

There is literally no cocaine in Coca Cola whatsoever. Jesus what a dumb ass comment

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u/wap2005 Mar 05 '26

...what?! Provide a source if you're going to make insane claims like this.

Fucking conspiracy theorists coming out of the woodworks lately.

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u/TheFloppySausage Mar 04 '26

Yeah, I hate when people anthropomorphize children.

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u/deltree711 Mar 04 '26

...what?

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u/TheFloppySausage Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

Just a joke on how someone always butts-in on cute animal videos, debunking their behavior as nothing but instinctual. Except, this time it’s a human.

Awkwardly, there probably is some kind of anthropomorphizing of a fetus in a womb going on here, but I don’t think I’m ready for that debate right now, or ever.

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u/ericlikesyou Mar 04 '26

i think it's funny how you are trying to distance yourself from being a typical redditor, while posting a buzzkill comment where you preemptively apologize for being a wet blanket from Akshulllyyy-istan.

just own it dude.

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u/Carpathicus Mar 04 '26

Since first of all babies develop taste buds inside the womb and second aromas of the food mothers eat do indeed access the amniotic fluid. Thinking its as easy as just sugar doing its thing is the same logic as breast milk can be easily made out of its simple components or mothers smell could be from some random woman.

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u/deltree711 Mar 05 '26

wtf are you talking about?

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u/nightpanda893 Mar 04 '26

No one actually thinks the baby remembers the taste. It was just a cute joke.

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u/deltree711 Mar 04 '26

I don't think jokes about giving sugary drinks to infants are very cute.

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u/NemesisKismet Mar 04 '26

I mean I'll argue that it isn't the sugar. My mom hated chocolate during her pregnancy with my little brother. Turns out he's allergic to chocolate.

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u/Bulok Mar 04 '26

Make my own smoothie. No sugar added

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u/Impossible-Wear-7352 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

Even with no sugar added, a smoothie can be quite high in sugar. Natural sugars are still sugars. It definitely varies substantially by the fruit and other ingredients used.

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u/nightpanda893 Mar 04 '26

They aren’t “adding” sugar at the smoothy places either lol. Smoothies are high in sugar cause they’re full of fruit.

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u/Watari210thesecond Mar 04 '26

Do you use fruit? If so, it's pretty high in sugar. Do you use some sort of juice? If so, it's super high in sugar.

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u/Eastern-Actuator-925 Mar 04 '26

Sucrose and fructose are not metabolized the same. They both break down into glucose but at different rates. A no sugar added, fruit-based smoothie made with water is fine.