Are Sugar-Reduced and Whole Grain Infant Cereals Sensorially Accepted at Weaning? A Randomized Controlled Cross-Over Trial
Sanchez-Siles LM, Bernal MJ, Gil D, Bodenstab S, Haro-Vicente JF, Klerks M, Plaza-Diaz J, Gil Á
Nutrients · 7 citations
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- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
- Intake measured by
- Not stated
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
- Government
- European Regional Development Fund
- Authors
- At least one author declares a financial tie to industry
- Grants
- European Regional Development Fund (201503473)
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Publication
- Published
- 2020-06-24 · Nutrients · vol. 12 · issue 6 · p. 1883
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Cited
- 9 citations · more than 76% of similar papers · 0.9× the field average
- References
- 52 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Nutritional Studies and Diet · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Keywords
- Weaning, Medicine, Sugar, Randomized controlled trial, Infant formula, Free sugar, Infant feeding, Food science, Biology, Pediatrics, Breast feeding, Surgery, Internal medicine
- MeSH
- humans, cross-over studies, food preferences, parents, weaning, eating, infant food, infant, female, male, whole grains, dietary sugars
8 authors
From ES
- Luis Manuel Sánchez-Siles · correspondingHero España (Spain)
- María José BernalHero España (Spain)
- David GilHospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca
- Stefan Bodenstab
- Juan Francisco Haro‐VicenteHero España (Spain)
- M.M. KlerksHero España (Spain)
Abstract
The way infants are fed during the complementary period can have a significant impact on infants' health and development. Infant cereals play an important role in complementary feeding in many countries. In spite of well documented benefits of a low sugar and high whole grain diet, commercial infant cereals are often refined and contain a high amount of sugars. The aim of the present study was to compare the sensory acceptability, gastrointestinal tolerance and bowel habits of two commercially available infant cereals in Spain with varying sugar and whole grain contents in infants at weaning. Forty-six healthy infants (mean age = 5.2 ± 0.4 months) received one of the two infant cereals containing either 0% whole grain flour and a high sugar content produced by starch hydrolysis (24 g/100 g) (Cereal A) or 50% whole grain flour and a medium-sugar content produced by hydrolysis (12 g/100 g) (Cereal B) in a randomized, triple blind, cross-over controlled trial. Both types of infant cereals were consumed for seven weeks. The cross-over was carried out after seven weeks. Sensory acceptability, anthropometry, gastrointestinal tolerance and adverse events were measured, and results evaluated using a linear regression model. No significant differences were observed between groups in any of the main variables analyzed. Importantly, the long-term health implications of our findings represent a wake-up call for the food industry to reduce or even eliminate simple sugars in infant cereals and for regulatory bodies and professional organizations to recommend whole grain infant cereals.
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