Baby food firms given 18 months to improve quality of products in England | Children’s health
Baby food producers were given 18 months to improve the quality of their products in the UK in the midst of concerns that leading brands are poor in terms of nutrition.
New volunteer guidance The government calls for a decrease in sugar and salt levels for babies and young children.
In addition, baby demands to be labeled more clearly to address the misleading marketing claims that look healthier than they are.
This will cover the products with labels such as “Nasties does not contain”, which is high. Others are labeled as a snack for infants who are contrary to government suggestions that six to 12 months old children do not need snacks between milk.
Researchers, Ella’s Kitchen and Heinz leading brands such as the needs of babies who can not meet the needs of Baby Sugar heavy, in terms of nutrition is poor baby food comes after finding.
A report by Leeds University Food Science and Nutrition School, Published in AprilSome brands have found misleading marketing claims and called on the government to impose the same traffic light system on chocolate sticks and ice cream.
The authors of the report said that new volunteer instructions were disappointed and will have a limited impact. Dr. Diane Threapleton, the chief author of the Leeds study, said: “In the scope, they are quite narrow, they are just looking at sugar and salt.
He was particularly worried that voluntary guides did not address the malnutrition of many mashed and bags targeting babies cut from milk. Nhs A child advises parents to start cutting from milk when they are about six months old.With non -sweet vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower and spinach.
“These products are often very juicy. Children really need rich food intensive foods with many different fibers and different iron and zinc sources,” he said. “But these purees, especially those targeted as foods cut from the first milk are really low in terms of energy. Especially if you change a nutritious milk feeding, bad substitutes.”
High amount of sugar level in child diets is an important factor that contributes to high childhood obesity rates in the UK, which is one of the highest Western Europe. At the beginning of primary school, More than 22% of children in the UK are obese or overweightAccording to the latest official statistics.
Public Health Minister Ashley Dalton, the instructions will often help, he said. “He was bombed with confusing labels, hiding unhealthy foods full of hidden sugar and salt ”.
NHS UK’s Children and Youth National Clinical Director Prof.Dr. “In addition to clearer labeling, these new instructions will help busy parents to make nutritious choices that provide the best possible beginning to their children in life.”
Last year, a Lordlar House report found that commercial baby foods were routinely high in sugar and that they were marketed in a misleading way ”. He called on the government to introduce Mandatory Legal Standards for Commercial Baby FoodsWithout the input of manufacturers.
A spokesperson for a health and social care department, expects the producers to meet their labeling instructions within 18 months and said, “If the enterprises do not take action, we will consider more harsh measures”.
Another study found that the legislation of high foods in the UK in terms of fat, sugar or salt led to the purchase of millions of less products to limit supermarket sales.
Researchers at the University of Leeds estimated that 2 million less products were sold a day after the laws entered into force in 2022. Tesco, Morrisons, Sinsbury and ASDA sold in oil, sugar or salt, the number of products, before the legislation fell from 20 to 20 to 19 to 19 to 19.
