Ultra-processed baby foods are ‘setting children up for a life of obesity’

The definition of what they call processed/ultra-processed seems like absolute nonsense, plenty of non processed foods would be far unhealthier than some ultra processed foods.
Perhaps there is a correlation, but there are many more useful metrics to determine if a food is a healthy option for your children.

Feel like this is once again trying to blame everyone but the parents.

Poor diet alone isn’t going to lead to a life of obesity. There’s also the complete lack of exercise and overuse of screens. If you feed your toddler sugars but they then burn off the calories running around being active, that’s a healthy active childhood.

If you feed them sugars and then plonk them in front of your TV all afternoon, then yes, that’s going to set up habits that lead to obesity.

Ultra processed foods, lack of nutrition information, one’s environment, parental choices and knowledge about nutrition, sedentary lifestyles.

People have been warning about these factors for ages. And the problem just keeps getting worse.

My parents just mashed up small versions of what they ate. Like roast dinners. I’ve always loved vegetables as a result.

I didn’t eat off the children’s menu. They just asked for smaller meals.

The Daily Mail is setting children up for a lifetime of listening to bullshit.

It’s a shame that you really have to check the nutritional labeling on kids foods as a LOT of it has a LOT of added sugar.

Parents think they’re giving their child a healthy snack when they give them a smoothie or pureed fruit pouch but it’s so full of sugar. It’s hard to find children’s snacks that don’t have it added.

Invest in a blender. That’s it.

How did people back in the day feed their children? By just boiling and mashing the veggies or fruit. Now you even have the luxury of a kitchen robot doing it for you.

For savoury pouches most list 100% real food, no additives etc, but the articles say they’re bad. It is confusing.

Is there something in the way the factory blends the vegetables that creates a bad thing?

I understand fruit blended creates more sugar but are they saying the same thing happens with vegetables?

Panorama did a good episode on this.

We didn’t use baby food once with either of our children. When you cook, just put a tiny bit of the meat and veg aside, mash it up and dump it into ice cube trays, then bag the cubes up once frozen. Then at the next dinner time just defrost a meat + potato + 2veg and microwave. Easy and cheap.