European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Modern living August the stars and stripes consumer m ions who have to the conclusion that baby canned food just Doest have the zip it used to Are Campaign by nutritionists and Public Naf Imla the major baby food manufacturers i beechnut and Gerber a hate changed Ihler formulas and eliminated or reduced the amounts of sugar and Salt they previously had added to their Many nutritionists feel that the sugar and Salt Hod been added to satisfy the parents last buds and not the health of the Helm and beechnut arc eliminating Salt from All their baby and getter announced 11 plans to offer some varieties with or without Salt and when it is added it will not exceed the National Academy of sciences recommendation of on fourth of one per the baby food manufacturers have reduced the amount of sugar or other Beirut reports that 71 of its 180 varieties will be without added compared with 58 the com Pany also said the amount of added sugar will not be More than nine per sugar will be added Only in the Case of fruits peaches and apricots which Are considered too tart or acidic for baby to accept other Wise whats the reason or this move toward new blandness in baby food when it comes to nutritionists state that enough Salt is naturally contained in most foods to meet a baby a and research an infant Salt consumption suggest that adding More is not Only unnecessary but May cause hypertension High blood pressure in later As to the horrors of Over indulging have been Well spelled out in recent its estimated that americans consume an average of to 120 pounds of sugar a year Well Over two pounds a sixty years the National Sweet tooth in the form of sugar in soft cakes pre sweetened break fast and desserts is said to add up to a enormous of tooth arteriosclerosis and heart Dis ease and maybe according to con tributes to some types of putting sugar in infant foods is seen As pure Folly Only conditioning a person to a bad besides these negative some nutritionists now believe that the sugar can add to the body fat cells which demand to be filled the result the fat baby will have an obesity fight As an the Salt and Tugar reduce Toloai la commercial baby food Arent the first change in be none of the baby food products made by any of the three companion now contain any artificial Flavouring or preservatives or flavor in this want sodium nitrate was added to some baby it was believed to slightly improve the taste and but was of no nutritional when it came under suspicion As contributing to it was finally Michael author of the enters the Consumers Fod Book food writes that As he sees it a substance has no business being in our food it Duei no Benefit the consumer the Lasue is that he that mag Monos Radium the flavor was not dropped from baby foods until Public pressure wad brought to Bear after it was discovered it might be a hound never have been in baby writes the manufacturers admitted that the function of mos was to make baby food More palatable to and not to make the product More nutritious or tastier for the some of the do contain mrs modified food this is according to a he ii fact to make the consistency of the baby foods Marc acceptable scially Impo consistency so they Are easy to if modified starches two Levare derived from Corn arid contribute an important source of carbohydrates to the infants average infant needs carbohydrates starches and sugars to refuel its body incidentally triples in weight and site during Hie first 11 months of re search studies indicate that carbohydrates Supply 55 per cent of the total daily caloric requirements for nutrition experts agree that the is not All nutrition Are completely enthusiastic about the manufacturers addition of Points out would be interesting to com pare the and vegetable Content of today baby foods with baby foods made before modified starch was noting that starch could conceivably used to replace More nutritious and expensive Ingre for detailed information on any specific read the the accompanying Chart the information that a typical Babyhood Label european commissaries carry products from Oil three of the major baby food Gener Helix Sells tors somewhat lower a 7j5 ounce Jar of Junior carrots for example is priced in Usa eur commissaries at 22 cents for 20 cents for and 20 cents for Heinz a ounce can of berber Junior Chicken Sells for 33 cents As com pared to ii cents for beechnut and 30 cents for infant strained beef was priced at 2 cents for a ounce Jar of 31 cents for beechnut and 28 cents for Ose who its Popuri inconvenient to prepare list manufacturers of Babyhood state that their products Arent Lime of Home preparation 14 figured j if a Parent is already cooking a family Rural Nung or blending portion for a Young offspring1 certainly cant be looted up divas a Tim Cost Factor v also note that their products coffer an we Vintage because foods Are not always in but ill of bottled food i can be disputed As to whether or not an infant demand or apri cots in one Parent who Doest believe in com Mercial baby food at All for six month old this to say a in concerned bottled baby food is a big we use this inexpensive Little food grinder and lust grind up most of what we eat for the not everything at of we started food with mashed up and you add a Little Al a but bottled baby food that us nutritional equivalent of grownups eating but those Lille canned lunches in the vending As far Asim concerned bottled baby food was a such earful Campaign to trick americans into enrich ing the baby food companies St expense of the none for my children thanks be that As it if Yon decide to