"Baby has never had sugar"

[itsascottishbaby]

Was chatting to friends today, we all have nearly 1 year olds. One said "My DD has never had sugar", and the others all chimed in to say the same.

My DS has had quite a bit of sugar - only tiny bits like a tiny morsel off a croissant, a baby biscuit or a taste of cake.

AIBU to think they might be stretching the truth? Or am I the odd one out, and a bad parent to boot?

When most people give birth, they also develop a degree in guilt and competitiveness.
Take it with a pinch of salt.

Making a biscuit with 'concentrated fruit puree' to claim it's sugar free is just played with words.

As a previous poster said, it's like those recipes for sugar-free cake that are full of maple-syrup or honey.

How often did our ancestors have access to 'concentrated fruit puree' - outside of fruit glut season, never. You would only have had honey when you found a hive or it was OK to harvest it from bees once we had learned how to farm bees. So access to honey would have been far less.

Pretending they aren't sugar is just conning people. If it tastes sweet, it's not savoury. spoken as a fat sugar addict

Take it with a pinch of salt.

Make sure its a very SMALL pinch, but that's a whole other thread ;-D.

Flanders I found that too. My child who had few sweet things didn't develop sweet tastebuds

They'll be telling you their baby's never eaten 'chemicals' next, and certainly never 'breathed' a chemical and most definitely is not made of 'chemicals' either.

So a few people have quoted my post. As I said in my post, I avoid refined sugar. Not fruit sugars etc. And I said to the op the people probably mean they avoid refined sugars. To those referring to what I said about 'still on baby snacks' I have taken a picture of one of the snacks ingredients and this is the kind of snack I would refer to when saying I avoid sugar. I actually mean I avoid refined sugar but don't quote that specifically I just say I avoid sugar.
I also don't care what anyone else is doing I just like to give my dd what I feel is best for her. I only said it on this post as many op are saying, it's near impossible to avoid all types of sugar, but I disagree that the people op are talking about are lying. They probably mean they are avoiding refined sugars. I also avoid things like baked beans and have much more veg than fruit. I personally think raise your dc the way you want to and if you hear about something someone else is doing that sounds better or worse, it's your job as a parent to decided what's best for your dc only and not to compare or criticise someone else's choice as long as the dc are healthy.

Fruit juices and purees added to biscuits and yogurts are no different to 'refined sugars' - they aren't naturally occurring, you aren't getting any fibre etc. As someone mentioned above it is just word play from the manufacturer so they can sell sweetened products to people who 'won't give their baby sugar'.

Sucrose, fructose and glucose are specific molecules. A molecule of fructose from fruit isn't any different to a molecule from processed stuff.
Of course context is important - the sugars in whole fruits are present in a context of a variety of chemicals including fibre etc. So yes, an orange is better than fruit juice which is better than fruit flavoured squash.

Everything in moderation. The odd biccy, slice of birthday cake or sugar fuelled rampage at Easter does nothing to harm a kid who has a predominantly healthy varied diet.

There's several mums on the fb group I'm in hovering over their little angels at age four or five to make sure they don't eat cake at birthday parties. I think that's pretty sad (none of these children are diabetic or have issues like hereditary fructose intolerance.) it's very 'othering' for them and youbsuspect they will go wild when hey finally access it.

It is psychologically healthy to be able to enjoy sweet treats in moderation, rather than see them as forbidden treats.

Banning sugar completely is impossible - breast milk has plenty of sugars in it and many are actually beneficial (there's evidence that some of the oligosaccharides in BM protect agaianst tooth decay and have influence on the gut flora.)

We could probably all do with eating less processed crap and less refined sugar, but banning it totally and being all 'my fenella only eats organic avocado as a snack' is just ridiculous.

You can't live without sugar. Fact.

I prescribe nutrition for babies in hospital who are unable to have anything via their stomach and therefore need it all intravenously. Sugar is a major component of this nutrition as it is needed for their brains to develop and grow. Also sugar has the highest number of calories per gram so when they can only have minimal volumes of fluid for various health reasons, we maximise their sugar in order to get maximum calories into them for growth. If it were so evil, it certainly wouldn't be used this way.

Also as many pps have mentioned, it is given to neonates for pain prior to cannulation.

Formula contains refined sugar so all those who ff have given refined sugar to their babies. Breastmilk is also extremely sweet - tastes a bit like condensed milk in the first few weeks.

When giving solids, aim to give minimal refined sugars in solids and encourage their tastebuds for savoury foods but by all means let them taste things that we enjoy, just be sure their diet doesn't consist purely of them. Ignore comments of not having given their babies sugar - it makes them no better at parenting than you

I can think of few foods with no sugar in them of one sort or another.

People being precious about their babies having sugar really winds me up!

Someone keeps advertising their organic sugar free ketchup on Facebook for babies and it drives me mad....what's wrong with a big of Heinz FFS

Good grief, these people are incredibly dull and stupid. Please find someone else to hang out with.

Send them this
news.usc.edu/117042/from-mother-to-baby-secondhand-sugars-can-pass-through-breast-milk/

The only thing with added sugar my ds has had is a tiny bit of sponge from his birthday cake.
I would think it's more unusual for a baby to have eaten things with added sugar than for them not to.

Not sure it's helpful or relevant but my ex ILS have just sent dcs home with boxes of Kendal Mint Cake .
We do have sweets and other things in moderation as I tend to find the children who have a very restricted diet tend to go a bit nuts at parties.
fondly remembers a dad at a class party (5-6 yr olds) trying to peel his dds of the walls after them mainlining haribo when he wasn't looking

Lots of tends there...

Really kaytee? I think the vast majority of babies will have had formula, flavoured rice cakes, fromage frais, baby biscuits etc.

Bread has added sugar.

They clearly have no knowledge of metabolism. I would recommend they read up on gluconeogenesis, kreb's cycle etc. Not only are is their child obviously eating 'sugar' (any form of carbohydrate) but if they didn't, their body would make it anyway.
IGNORE them, it is a fad that will hopefully pass. I think feeding kids a balanced diet with everything in moderation is the way to go.

I have to make sure DD has no refined sugar in anything due to one (of many) of her food allergies. Her skin breaks out into a painful rash, she gets a bad stomach and it's just not worth it. But it means so much work making sure that everything is home made or sugar free that I can't understand why anyone would choose to live that way. I am that parent hovering at the party making sure she's not eaten cake and its shit. For children with no allergies surely it's everything in moderation, as it should be for grownups too.

Realo. Of course you have to hover! We have allergies to eggs and nuts and gluten within the family so I get you completely.

My DD had a friend when she was little who was banned from all "junk". I will never forget the vision of her at my DD's 4th bday party literally crawling down the centre of the long table grabbing all the "junk" she could get her hands on. Don't worry I lifted her down. You can definitely make it seem like forbidden fruit if you go to far!