How long does it take for baby to taste food in womb after eating?

Babies get plenty of experience with taste before they are born. Flavors, like garlic, change the scent of the amniotic fluid and the flavor peaks around 45 minutes after the mother eats.

The fetus begins swallowing amniotic fluid about 10 weeks after conception,2 and by 14 weeks after conception, he swallows more or less fluid each day based on the taste of the amniotic fluid. Also, by 26 weeks after conception, the fetus can distinguish between different smells in the amniotic fluid. When researchers presented newborns between one and six days old with unfamiliar odors, the odors activated the same regions of the brain that are active in adults. The same brain areas are also likely responsible for processing odors a short time before birth.