Baby food: we analyze 17 brands of cookies that children consume most

Whether for breakfast, for snack or as a snack to easily transfer, children often consume commercial cookies that we find in a variety of formats. So that we really know what product we are facing, We analyze 17 brands of cookies that children consume most.

The nutrients in cookies

We have analyzed 17 different cookie brands and in the following table we show its main nutrients and the proportion of each per 100 grams:

CookiesKcalHydratesof which sugarsProteinFatSaltFiber
Tosta Rica46072246160.72
Classic oreo48069384.92022.5
Original dinosaur47468216.5191-
Original prince49076.532.56.1210.53.4
Original Ahoy Chips49764335.5240.743.3
Artiach Chiquilín48375217170.28-
Landlord Relief47671.4215.717.90.74-
Maria Fontaneda cookies44077247.610.50.832.1
Bathed Hacendado50064356.6240.41.7
Chocolate sandwich cookies ARLUY Megachok47270286.8180.652.4
Golden Marbu of Artiach46467196.5180.95-
Oceanix Tosta Rica46667277180.61.8
Carrefour Safari Cookies45974246.7150.732.4
Eroski Stuffed Cookies48270336190.53.5
Tullis Gullón45974245.7150.72.4
Chiquilín bears44471256151.1-
Strawberry Festival46073384170,48-

We must consider that the ration is between 30 and 50 grams For most of the cookies.

Looking at the data collected, we can conclude that cookies like any other industrial bakery product they are foods concentrated in calories, highly processed and that is why they carry all added sugars, refined flours and salt in appreciable quantities that we often do not consider because they are sweet products.

That is, they are foods that do not calm hunger easily and that provide nutrients that the WHO recommends reducing such as the hydrates that the body digests and assimilates quickly or the salt that it contains above all, sodium.

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The sugar in cookies

The sugar in cookies it is purely free or added sugar, that is to say, it is a sugar that does not contribute more than calories to the diet and that is absorbed very easily, causing in the body glucose peaks that can chronically harm the health.

The WHO recommends limiting your consumption to 10% of daily calories or, ideally, 5% of the total energy of the day. In children this is equivalent to do not exceed 38 grams of sugar every day and in an advisable way, ingest less than 20 grams.

Cookies are all options with high proportions of added sugars, being the most concentrated specimens in this nutrient the classic Oreo cookies, the Strawberry Festival, and secondly, the original Ahoy Chips, the Hacendado Bathes and the Eroski filled cookies.

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For example, consuming 6 Oreo cookies (those contained in a small package -11 gr each cookie-) or 6 Bathed landowner (12.5 gr each cookie) we reach the quota of 25 grams of sugar per day, without considering that in the infantile diet there are many other foods source of sugar.

The option that has the lowest proportion of sugars is the Marbú Doradas de Artiach, but it also contributes 19% of this nutrient that we should reduce in the usual diet not only of children but also of adults.

Cookie sugar raises the sweet threshold or craving for sweet things, thus stimulating the desire for its intake and even having an addictive effect on the human organism.

Therefore, it is recommended limit whenever possible your intake through ultraprocessed foods among which are cookies.

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The salt offered by cookies

Many times we think that salt is only in salted products, but this analysis shows that it is not. We can even find high amounts of sodium In sweet foods like cookies.

Sodium contained in salt, in large proportions can cause various diseases, favoring among other things a greater consumption of calories and thus, being a factor that contributes to the development of overweight and obesity In the little ones.

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It is next to sugar, one of the nutrients that WHO recommends to moderate in the usual diet and that we usually consume in very high proportions.

In children it is advised never exceed 4 grams of salt per day, amount that we can easily reach if we consume, for example, some 9 Oreo cookies per day that will cover half of the maximum recommended quota.

The cookies they contribute on average about 0.9 grams of salt per 100 grams, a quantity not less if we consider that a maximum of 5 grams is recommended daily in adults.

The options with more salt are the classic Oreo, followed by the Chiquilín bears and the original Dinosaurs.

The fats that cookies possess

Cookies may have variable fat ratios: from 10% in Maria cookies to 24% in Chips Ahoy or Bañado Hacendado.

These fats are mostly Saturated fats, may even carry minimal amounts of trans fats or hydrogenated vegetable oils They are recommended to reduce in the usual diet because they are the most harmful for metabolism and cardiovascular health.

Likewise, they can have palm or palm kernel oil, a type of vegetable fat but in which saturated fatty acids predominate, as for example, in Oreo cookies:

Wheat flour, sugar, vegetable fats (palm, palm kernel), defatted cocoa powder 4.6%, wheat starch, glucose-fructose syrup, gasifiers (potassium acid carbonate, ammonium acid carbonate, sodium acid carbonate) , salt, emulsifiers (soy lecithin, sunflower lecithin), aromas (vanillin). CONTAINS WHEAT, GLUTEN, SOY. MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF MILK.

Of course, we also have options whose fats are healthier for the body such as Artiach Chiquilín biscuits in which it is included oleic high sunflower oil as its ingredients reveal:

Wheat flour 68%, sugar, high oleic sunflower oil 13%, grated coconut, whey powder, wheat starch, honey 0.7%, glucose syrup and fructose, powdered eggs (equivalent to 2.3% of eggs), powdered eggs (equivalent to 2.4% of eggs), gasifiers (ammonium and sodium bicarbonates), salt, aromas, antioxidants (E 304, E 306), barley malt extract, vitamin and mineral salts: Vitamin D, calcium carbonate and iron. May contain soy.

In all cases, to know the specific type of fats that cookies have, we recommend go to the ingredient list. There we can see what oil, fat, butter or similar has been used and therefore, the origin or quality of the fats they offer.

Conclusion: cookies are a food to avoid

As we have seen, there are no commercial cookies that have a remarkable nutritional quality. On the contrary, we find in them a lot of sugar, fat and calories with few quality nutrients for the children's diet.

They are foods that do not satisfy and predispose us to excessive consumptionTherefore, like other products of industrial origin, children's cookies are a food to avoid or reduce to the maximum in the day to day If we want to protect the health of our children.

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