Several CSGA teams combine their skills in a multidisciplinary project to analyse the relationships between maternal dietary intake during gestation and lactation and early sensory development, the biological phenomenology of milk’s chemosensory attractiveness in its invariant and variable fractions, the latter related to maternal diet, the long-term effects of the maternal nutritional footprint on the metabolic capacities of offspring. In general, this project aims to contribute to the integrated understanding of the ontogenesis of sensoriality and regulation of the mechanisms that organise food intake, as well as their deregulation by food and obesogenic lifestyles. Animal analysis ultimately aims to understand the early origins of metabolic syndrome affecting the urbanised human species.