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A comparison of preprepared commercial infant feeding meals with home-cooked recipes
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Carstairs, Sharon A., Craig, Leone C. A., Marais, Debbi, Bora, Ourania E. and Kiezebrink, Kirsty (2016) A comparison of preprepared commercial infant feeding meals with home-cooked recipes. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 101 . pp. 1037-1042. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2015-310098 ISSN 0003-9888.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-310098
Abstract
Objectives To compare the cost, nutritional and food variety contents of commercial meals and published infant and young child feeding (IYCF) home-cooked recipes, and to compare nutritional contents to age-specific recommendations.
Design Cross-sectional study.
Setting Full range of preprepared main meals available within the UK market. Main-meal recipes identified from a survey of Amazon's top 20 best-sellers and IYCF cookbooks available from local libraries.
Samples 278 commercial IYCF savoury meals from UK market and 408 home-cooked recipes from best-selling IYCF published cookbooks.
Main outcome measures Cost and nutritional content per 100 g and food variety per meal for both commercial meals and home-cooked recipes.
Results Commercial products provided more ‘vegetable’ variety per meal (median=3.0; r=−0.33) than home-cooked recipes (2.0). Home-cooked recipes provided 26% more energy and 44% more protein and total fat than commercial products (r=−0.40, −0.31, −0.40, respectively) while costing less (£0.33/100 g and £0.68/100 g, respectively). The majority of commercial products (65%) met energy density recommendations but 50% of home-cooked recipes exceeded the maximum range.
Conclusions The majority of commercial meals provided an energy-dense meal with greater vegetable variety per meal to their home-cooked counterparts. Home-cooked recipes provided a cheaper meal option, however the majority exceeded recommendations for energy and fats.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Archives of Disease in Childhood | ||||||||
Publisher: | BMJ | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0003-9888 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 19 July 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 101 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1037-1042 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1136/archdischild-2015-310098 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 July 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 July 2016 |
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