KENDAMIL porridge

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11 month old likes KENDAMIL creamy porridge.
I just Noticed the ingredients state “skimmed” milk. I had thought it was made with their full fat formula milk.
Checked on a YUKA review site (photo attached) (In French, but I think it’s easy to understand) and it says too much sugar, although apparently their ingredients state no added sugar.
So now I am unsure what it actually is..!
Does anyone know? Is it made with formula milk in already? What is the sugar content?

Why don’t you just give him porridge made of porridge oats, plus whatever milk you want?

Then you don’t need to worry about what’s in there (and I bet it’s lots cheaper).

Barley malt extract is basically sugar. It's not sugar but it's almost 75% sugar.

In terms of milk they probably are listing all the ingredients. The first formula list skim milk as the first ingredient.

Making porridge from either rolled oats or something like ready brek is pretty easy.
I personally rolled oats overnight so they get extra creamy and cook very fast.

It's not made with their formula, it's skimmed milk and whey powder (with a few other additives). It's high in sugar because all porridge is, oats are high carb (and therefore high sugar - carbs metabolise as sugar in the body).

The rougher the cut of the oats the less impact on blood sugar because the fibre is retained.

Processed oats (like in baby porridge or ready brek) have less fibre and therefore a worse impact on on blood sugar.

Better (and cheaper!) to make it yourself with whole milk/ formula and rolled oats.

Oh and the bloody barley malt!! That's really disingenuous of them. That is sugar.

I live in France. Thé health workers at my baby group were shocked I was making/giving homemade porridge made with oats and cows milk. We checked with the lactation consultant and she recommended making it with formula instead of “normal” cows milk. Meanwhile, my mum got some KENDAMIL in when we visited and it was just super easy to make in the bleary eye mornings! Now my boyfriend has checked on YUKA and thé sugar content is negatively flagged up. I looked more closely and saw “skimmed milk”.
While I make most of baby’s food I was enjoying the ease and morning laziness of “just add water” to the Kendamil.

I didn’t know what barley malt was, so thank you.

Any thing which is just add water isn’t going to be great. YUKA app is looking for UPF foods and formula is a UPF.

Porridge, ready brek, weetabix type things will be lower in sugar but you'd need to add your own milk. Anything you add water to will already contain milk.

If it works then no harm keeping on using it. It's not radio active. Eating is about balance. So while the porridge maybe high in sugar it is only one meal. Looking over the day or week is important. You could also add things to it such as a smooth peanut or nut butter which would increase the protein in it. Or make up with regular milk rather than water which would increase the protein as well. Eating is also cultural so what's acceptable in one country may seam very strange in another. Or generation to generation. My mum could not believe I was happy giving my 1 year old cows milk as she had been told it wasn't suitable and under 2 had goats milk.

I love the material from First Steps. It's all evidence based and it's a charity so free from commercial influences. www.firststepsnutrition.org/eating-well-in-the-first-year