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Title: Composición nutricional de los cereales industriales infantiles
Author: Carcereny Murciano, Raquel
Tutor: JARDÍ, CRISTINA  
Abstract: A high percentage of infants are fed industrial cereals from 4 or 6 months of age. The objective was to describe the nutritional composition and the list of ingredients of infantile industrial cereals that are sold in Spain. Methods and materials: 74 products were analyzed: 21 for food from 4 months, 6 from 5 months, 42 from 6 months and 4 from 12 months of age. Starch hydrolyzed cereals were analyzed to detail the sugar content present in them, and to detect if WHO recommendations were detected. The percentage of free and / or added sugars present in baby cereals is consistent with the who recommendations on 22 cereals, however 51 do not comply with these recommendations, since they provide more than double (22.56g). 43 products have added sugars in the list of ingredients and 31 products contain flours from hydrolyzed cereals. Some industrial cereals include the who recommendations on not introducing sugar into the diet of children under 1 year old and in the amount of sugar they contain. Cereals, which are sometimes hydrolyzing or dextrination processes, considerably increase the free sugars that these cereals contain. This excess consumption at an early age could be related to the increased risk of dental caries, obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance and dyslipidemias in adulthood.
Keywords: complementary feeding
free sugars
infants
infant cereals
hydrolyzed cereals
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: Jan-2020
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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