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Homemade Foods For Infants Not Always A Healthy Choice: Study
Home-cooked meals, specifically made for infants and young children, are not always healthier than commercially available baby foods, a new research suggests.
The findings indicated that home-cooked meals, which are often perceived as the best option, usually exceed energy density and dietary fat recommendations.
Home-cooked meals also provided 26 per cent more energy and 44 per cent more protein and total fat, including saturated fat than commercial products.
"Unlike adult recommendations, which encourage reducing energy density and fats, it is important in infants that food is suitably energy dense in appropriately sized meals to aid growth and development," said Sharon A. Carstair from the University of Aberdeen in Britain.
In addition, home-cooked meals were found to be around half the price of commercially available ready-made meals.
While almost two-thirds (65 per cent) of commercial products met dietary recommendations on energy density, only just over a third of home-cooked meals did so, and over half (52 per cent) exceeded the maximum range.
Home-cooked meals contained more protein as well as included a greater variety of vegetables than ready-made meals, but commercial products contained a greater vegetable variety per meal, averaging three compared with two for home-cooked recipes.
Ready-made meals are a convenient alternative, but any parent looking to provide their child with a varied diet should probably not rely solely on ready-made meals, the researchers said.
"Dietary fats contribute essential fatty acids and fat soluble vitamins together with energy and sensory qualities, thus are vital for the growing child; however, excessive intakes may impact on childhood obesity and health," Carstair added.
For the study, the team compared the nutrient content, price and food group variety of 278 ready-made savoury meals, 174 of which were organic and 408 home-cooked meals made using recipes from 55 bestselling cookbooks designed for the diets of infants and young children.
While 16 per cent of the home-cooked meals were poultry based compared with 27 per cent of the ready-made meals, nearly one in five (19 per cent) were seafood based versus seven per cent of the ready-made meals.
On the other hand, a similar proportion (21 per cent) were meat based compared with 35 per cent of the commercial products and almost half (44 per cent) were vegetable based compared with around a third (31 per cent) of the ready-made meals.
However,
"the
high
proportion
of
red
meat-based
meals
and
recipes
and
low
seafood
meals
are
of
concern
when
dietary
recommendations
encourage
an
increase
in
oil-rich
fish
consumption
and
limitation
of
red
and
processed
meats,"
said
the
paper
published
online
in
the
journal
Archives
of
Disease
in
Childhood.
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