Precisely where the composition and nutritional contributions for the organism should be taken care of more, in the products destined to infant nutrition, is where it seems that less is taken into account. A study has shown that most food products for children have little nutritional content and sin of excess in sugars and fats.
The study has been carried out by the University of Calgary (Canada), although as far as I fear the results are transferable to any of our countries. Most food products that specifically target children have little nutritional content, even when more than half of them are marketed arguing otherwise.
That is to say, it is about baby foods that they use as a claim to have positive nutritional qualities in their packaging, but that they are actually cheating the consumer. Worrying, in a reality in which childhood obesity is one of the evils that most affect the population.
Because according to the research, 9 out of 10 foods had little nutritional value due to the high levels of sugar, fat and sodium, and that did not include soft drinks, sweets, or pastries. Almost 70% of the products had excess sugar, 1 in 5 had high fat levels and 17% sodium.
The study analyzed 367 baby foods, and has been published in the July issue of the British magazine Obesity Reviews. The conclusions indicated that only 11% of the products analyzed had good nutritional values, according to the criteria established by the Science Center for Public Interest, an American non-profit entity.
It is worrying that we cannot rely on the information on the food packaging, and I think that this issue should be controlled much more, for everything that is at stake for the present and future health of our children.
