The 632nm bloggers came to the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event at the MIT museum, two days after the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, and interviewed some of the new winners.
In this episode they talk with Julie Mannella and Gary Beauchamp, who were awarded the 2025 Ig Nobel Pediatrics Prize, for studying what a nursing baby experiences when the baby’s mother eats garlic.
That research is documented in the study “Maternal Diet Alters the Sensory Qualities of Human Milk and the Nursling’s Behavior,” Julie A. Mennella and Gary K. Beauchamp, Pediatrics, vol. 88, no. 4, 1991, pp. 737-744.
And for further insights, see the Philadelphia Inquirer interview with Julie Mennella.