use of sweeteners and sweetened foods
Sweeteners (e.g., sugar, syrups), eaten alone, added to foods, or in prepared foods, add calories to the diet and promote the development of tooth decay in babies. Sweetened foods may fill up the baby without providing essential nutrients. Therefore, avoid feeding babies:
- Commercially prepared baby food desserts,
- Commercial cakes, cookies, candies, and sweet pastries,
- Chocolate—some babies have allergic reactions to this food, and
- Added sugar, glucose, molasses, maple syrup, and corn syrup or other syrups in the baby’s food, beverages, or water.
honey
Honey should never be fed to babies less than 1 year of age. Honey may contain substances that can cause “infant botulism,” a serious type of food-related illness that can make a baby very sick. Do not feed babies honey alone or in cooking or baking or as found in prepared foods (e.g., yogurt with honey, peanut butter with honey, honey graham crackers). Even the honey in prepared foods could cause this illness in babies.
artificial sweeteners
Do not feed artificially sweetened foods or beverages to babies. Babies, who are growing rapidly have no need for low calorie foods and drinks. Also, artificial sweeteners have not been proven safe for consumption by babies.
Source: Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion(usda.gov)
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