One-year-olds ordinarily prefer the taste of sweet food to that of salty food  Yet if one feeds a one-year-old salty food rather than sweet food, then over a period of about a year he or she will develop a taste for the salty flavor and choose to eat salty food rather than sweet food
Thus, a young child' s taste preferences can be affected by the type of food he or she has been exposed to
Sweet food is better for infant development than is salty food.