UK commercial baby foods don’t meet infants’ dietary weaning needs, because they are predominantly sweet foods that provide little extra nutritional goodness over breast milk, indicates research published online in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Furthermore, they are promoted for infants from the age of four months - an age when they should still be on an exclusive breast milk diet, say the researchers.
“While it is understandable that parents may choose to use [these products] early in the weaning process, health professionals should be aware that such food will not add to the nutrient density of a milk diet,” they conclude.
Commercial baby foods lower nutrient density than typical home-made foods - Rochdale News 9 September 2013
and here on the BBC
and Abstract of the original research paper
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