Baby Food Has Too Much Sugar And Is Marketed Wrongly, WHO Says
- Products are often promoted to infants under 6 months of age
- Sugar can wire infants to a lifelong preference for sweets
The WHO recommends babies be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives, advice the world’s biggest baby-food makers like Nestle SA and Danone echo.
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Baby food often contains too much sugar and is incorrectly advertised as suitable for infants under 6 months of age, according to a new World Health Organization report.
At least half of products analyzed in three of four cities provided more than 30% of their calories from sugars, according to the study. About a third of them listed sugar, concentrated fruit juice or other sweeteners as an ingredient.