Fig 1.

The design of the experimental protocol for the 3 groups of participants. The women consumed either 300 mL of carrot juice or water daily for 4 days per week for 3 consecutive weeks during the last trimester of pregnancy and then again during the first 2 months of lactation. The mothers in 1 group (CW) drank carrot juice during pregnancy and water during lactation (n = 16); mothers in another (WC) drank water during pregnancy and carrot juice during lactation (n = 17); whereas those in the control group (WW) drank water during both exposure periods (n = 14). Approximately 4 weeks after the mothers began complementing their infants’ diet with cereal but before the introduction of carrot-flavored foods or beverages, the infants, who were ∼6 months of age, were videotaped at the Monell Center as they fed, in counterbalanced order, cereal prepared with water (1 part cereal, 1 part water) during 1 test day and cereal prepared with carrot juice (1 part cereal, 1 part carrot juice) during another.