Baby Food Pouch Nutrition Concerns

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Baby food pouches low in key nutrients, lab testing finds

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BBC Panorama finds many baby food pouches low in nutrients , testing finds.

Some contain more sugar in a single pouch than a one-year-old should have in a day .

Pouches marketed as having "no added sugar" contain about four teaspoons of so-called "free sugars" Public health experts say no parent should feel guilty for using the products.

37 of 60 fruit pouches found on supermarket shelves contained more sugar than guideline.

NHS says infants should have no more than 10 g of free sugars a day.

Nearly all the vitamin C in one fruit pouch tested had been lost during the manufacturing process.

Vitamin C is important for immune systems and an infant needs 25mg a day, government says.

Heinz , Aldi , Piccolo and Ella 's Kitchen all said their products contained "no added sugar".

Piccolo told us it has begun relabelling all four-month packets to six-months .

Ella 's Kitchen has announced that by March next year it will only recommend pouches for babies older than six months .

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