to think advertising of baby pouches needs to be restricted?

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Pearl87 · 28/04/2025 19:43

Ella's Kitchen outright admit their product should only be used sparingly. A lot of parents use these pouches as the main source of their child's nutrition.

A toddler with blondey-brown hair sucking a pouch of baby food, which she is holding with both hands. She is wearing a burgundy top and dungarees.

Baby food pouches low in key nutrients, lab testing finds

Parents are being "misled" by marketing from leading baby food companies, experts tell BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62j0l0gg4go

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Wingdings93 · 28/04/2025 21:59

I would have thought it was obvious that processed mush full of preservatives was a poor choice as the main source of nutrition for a baby.

Parents could have read the packets and seen how much sugar is in them. The information was ready available for anyone who wanted to look. Why do adults need someone to tell them how to feed their baby?

Pretty much all baby feeding advice I've seen recommends feeding baby what you're eating just cut up small or homemade purees from a blender. Our 10 month old has only ever eaten what we eat cut up small in line with baby led weaning.

BlossomBlanket · 28/04/2025 20:50

Zone2NorthLondon · 28/04/2025 20:46

Nothing like panorama programme to get folk aerated
How would one enforce sparing use? Who’ll monitor consumption, and what’s sanction for over use?

I think it's more about not marketing something as good nutritional healthy food. Assuming if parents know this, they'll rely less heavily on them. And parents who don't care - well it'll just be one problem among many for that family.

Zone2NorthLondon · 28/04/2025 20:46

Nothing like panorama programme to get folk aerated
How would one enforce sparing use? Who’ll monitor consumption, and what’s sanction for over use?

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