Concentration of sugars in commercial infant foods in New Zealand

Brake, P.J.; Wright, F.A.; Melton, L.D.

New Zealand Medical Journal 92(670): 320-323

1980


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-8446
PMID: 6934432
Document Number: 155751
Of 18 commercial infant foods 16 were considered desserts and had total sugars 16 to 47 and sucrose 0.3 to 23%. Ten other milk-based foods had total sugars 2.1 to 27.9 and sucrose nil up to 15.3%. Five desserts are studied in detail. The sugar content seemed unnecessarily high.

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