Sodium concentration of homemade baby foods

Extract: Data on the sodium concentration in 70 samples of homemade baby foods prepared by 36 mothers is presented. The mean estimated amount of added salt was 0.41 percent weight--64 percent higher than the maximum recommended by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Hom...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1978-09, Vol.62 (3), p.331-335
Main Authors: Kerr, Clark M. Jr, Reisinger, Keith S, Plankey, F.W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cooking
Humans
Infant
Infant Food - adverse effects
Infant Food - analysis
Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Sodium - analysis
Sodium Chloride - analysis
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Summary:Extract: Data on the sodium concentration in 70 samples of homemade baby foods prepared by 36 mothers is presented. The mean estimated amount of added salt was 0.41 percent weight--64 percent higher than the maximum recommended by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Home-prepared foods had a sodium concentration 1,005 percent higher than similar baby food products made by Heinz and Beech-Nut and 24 percent higher than products made by Gerber. The data suggest that advice to parents to prepare their own baby food or to feed their infant food from the table should be tempered with the knowledge that these foods may contain higher salt concentrations than the commercial baby foods
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.62.3.331