How are Farley's Rusks allowed to be sold as suitable baby food?

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They have 4.9g of sugar in them! Per biscuit...not per 100g!

For reference a McVities milk hocolate digestive has 4.8g of sugar per biscuit

Does anyone know why they're allowed?

They impede the flow of air around the cot, increasing the risk of SIDS, and they are a suffocation and strangulation risk.

httpswww.lullabytrust.org.uk/parents-should-remove-cot-bumpers/

They've been around for years and years and years. My mother went on about them, so I bought some once. They went disgustingly soggy in milk and tasted foul. And this was in the 1960s when my children were babies.

Is the sugar thing about their teeth? What if they’ve got no teeth yet? Then is it fine? Genuine question

Mmmm rusks are yummy.

Sugar content is listed on the box, so esy to check if that is something that worries you.

@Zhampagne

They impede the flow of air around the cot, increasing the risk of SIDS, and they are a suffocation and strangulation risk.

Thanks, knew there was a reason, but. Could not remember. They were a big thing when mine were babies.

Ahh I loved rusks when dd was a baby. I might buy a box for my brothers small child (cos you can't just buy them as an adult its wrong) and then 'realise' how unhealthy they are and offer to take them home, but then my brother might refuse because he used to love them and eat them all

They should be for adults only 😛 love a rusk but rarely gave them to my kids.

I’m a believer in everything in moderation. My DC eat healthy home cooked meals so I don’t see the harm in the odd rusk every now and then.

@doingitforthefrill

I’m a believer in everything in moderation. My DC eat healthy home cooked meals so I don’t see the harm in the odd rusk every now and then.

No, fair enough, but not at 4 months old!

@allaglow

Ooh, could just eat a bowl of Farley's rusks and warm milk (I'm 56).

Oh, me too. I'm the same age, we were probably reared on them

Think they’re disgusting and i like sugar

Baby food doesn't need to exist. Food is baby food. Just prepare accordingly.

But they still sell coy bumpers and people are still stupid enough to use them.

For both the bottom line is money. Money is more important than our babies lives. We have to make sure we protect them.

Agree everything in moderation. A baby/child will do just fine with a cheeky rusk every now and then. I'd crumble half up and add fruit puree to it.

It's surely about a long term feeding plan. You need to consistently give your child fruit and veg and a variety of healthy meals. The odd biscuit/yoghurt is not going to ruin them.

Infact the kids who are never allowed it end up pigging out when they are older.

My kids love fruit but they can have a biscuit. They also walk loads. Usually swim. Love water. Both have good teeth and are healthy weights.

Meh. All about moderation isn’t it.

Besides which what’s this notion of making it law etc etc when we have presumably been blessed with common sense.

As for four/six months old. There is a lot of evidence now that increasing the weaning age to six months actually increases the risk of allergies. Many parents are actively advised by paediatricians to wean from four months. When mine was a baby four months was still the recommended weaning age.

But the way people obsess over not weaning a day before six months is peculiar. And yet people will merrily advise others to co-sleep even though that is also not advised.

They both probably were close to 4 months actually, it’s not as though they were eating them every day.

I know. They really should be reserved as student food, for pregnancy cravings and a feeling a bit crap snack. 3 rusks smooshed into warm milk...food. of. the. gods.

I've just added some to my Tesco order. I'm 48.

It's like those stupid bags of 'carrot puffs' that look suspiciously like wostists well those are fundamentally different seeing as they’re not cheese flavoured and wotsits are.

I think you'd find the same with most baby foods. I used to crumble them with frozen berries and natural yoghurt for a baby dessert. So yummy!
No 4 month old would manage a whole rusk.
How much sugar does breastmilk have?

Ok in moderation. My kids needed to gain weight so had lots of different calorific foods.

And now I want some.

No wonder we thought it a ‘treat’ when DM let us occasionally have one of little bros rusks for breakfast!

Baby cereal is/was the same. Weaning was at 4 months when my DS was born but no gluten until 6 months so Ready Brek and Weetabix were out for the first couple of months. I seem to recall baby cereal being at least 25% sugar, maybe more so couldn't wait to be able to start him on Weetabix.

Oh man I love rusks. I used to eat them dry as a snack, I had a box in my handbag.

I was given puréed rusk at three days old by the midwife apparently, as I wouldn't stop crying. 1970's.