Types of fruits and vegetables used in commercial baby foods and their contribution to sugar content

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• 作者：Ada Lizbeth Garcia ; Kimberley McLean and Charlotte M. Wright
• 刊名：Maternal & Child Nutrition
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：12
• 期：4
• 页码：838-847
• 全文大小：267K
• ISSN：1740-8709

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Fruits and vegetables (F&V) are often featured in names of commercial baby foods (CBFs). We aimed to survey all available CBFs in the UK market with F&V included in the food name in order to describe the amount and types of F&V used in CBF and their contribution to total sugar content. Food labels were used to identify F&V and total sugar content. Fruits were more common than vegetables in names of the 329 CBFs identified. The six most common F&V in the names were all relatively sweet: apple, banana, tomato, mango, carrot and sweet potato. The percentage of F&V in the foods ranged from a median of 94% for sweet-spoonable to 13% for dry-savoury products. Fruit content of sweet foods (n&thinsp;=&thinsp;177) was higher than vegetable content of savoury foods (n&thinsp;=&thinsp;152) with a median (IQR) of 64.0&thinsp;g/100&thinsp;g (33.0&ndash;100.0) vs. 46.0&thinsp;g/100&thinsp;g (33&ndash;56.7). Fruit juice was added to 18% of products. The proportion of F&V in CBF correlated significantly with sugar content for all the food types except dry-savoury food (sweet-spoonable r&thinsp;=&thinsp;0.24, P&thinsp;=&thinsp;0.006; savoury-spoonable r&thinsp;=&thinsp;0.65, P&thinsp;<&thinsp;0.001; sweet-dry r&thinsp;=&thinsp;0.81, P&thinsp;<&thinsp;0.001; savoury-dry r&thinsp;=&thinsp;0.51, P&thinsp;=&thinsp;0.06) and explained up to two-thirds of the variation in sugar content. The F&V content of CBFs mainly consists of fruits and relatively sweet vegetables which are unlikely to encourage preferences for bitter-tasting vegetables or other non-sweet foods. F&V contribute significantly to the total sugar content, particularly of savoury foods.