On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:33:50 +0000, Kate Dicey
> wrote:


>
>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.

Seeing that I have some baby food around, I went and got out a jar.
It's the meat, so it's not infant food. No veggies, either, so the
seasoning might differ. Fussy cats happen to sometimes like the taste
of baby food, but only of the meat kind. In any case, the jar of
turkey lists under ingredients: finely ground turkey, water, and
cornstarch. However, off to the side, in the nutrition facts, it
shows 35 mg sodium and 110 mg potassium. Sugars are a 0.

Hmm. How did that 145 mg of various salts turn up in the pure turkey,
water, and cornstarch? I know. Hard water.

I know that salt was in baby foods 30 years ago. Probably sugar, too.
Parents sometimes get babies to eat by pretending their food is yummy.
Therefore, they occasionally get a taste. If it doesn't meet adult
standards (such as they were in that less than health conscious time),
the parents wouldn't give it to their kids. Therefore many baby foods
were seasoned to look and smell good to adults. Animal foods still
are. They have to be palatable looking and smelling enough for owners
to be willing to touch them. Very fussy animals, such as cats, often
have owners who like the food to even look like real human food.
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