Opinicus wrote:
>
> <Alan > wrote in message
> ...
>
> > For whatever reason, we in North American have gotten used to a lot of
> > foods having sugar in them -- especially prepared foods from food
> > factories.
> > I don't like it, but it seems to have spread over the last 40, or so,
> > years.
>
> I'm wondering if it's because of:
>
> 1. Baby foods with sugar added to them to make them more palatable to mother
> and baby
>
> and/or
>
> 2. Sugar-frosted breakfast cereals targeted at kids
Good grief! Is sugar allowed in baby foods in the USA? As far as I
know, it isn't in the UK. It certainly wasn't in any if the (admittedly
very few) baby foods I bought for my son, 9 or so years ago. Nor was
salt. Mostly I made my own, so salt and sugar were never an issue.
Food processors are wonderful things...
The breakfast cereals we have in the house: Wheetabix, Shredded Wheat,
no added sugar muesli made by Canterbury Wholefoods (has whole hazel
nuts and biiiig chunks of Brazils in it - yummy, but hard going!), and
Kellogg's Fruit & Fibre, which does have sugar in, but isn't coated in
it like Frosties. And, naturally, porridge oats and pinhead oatmeal!
DH eats the Man Sized muesli, I eat the Wheetabix, Shredded Wheat and
porridge, son occasionally eats the Fruit & Fibre or Wheetabix, but
would usually rather have a cold meat or cheese sandwich for breakfast,
or a cold sausage...
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