According to Earths Best ads, your baby foods do not contain sugar or salt. So what is 11g sugar and 16g sodium on some products nutrition label?
Most foods have some naturally occurring sugar and sodium. That must be declared on the nutrition panel, just like the other naturally occurring nutrients. With our baby foods, we don’t add any sugar or salt, but we do report what’s been put in there by nature. Fruits especially contain lots of natural sugars, usually in the form of fructose. Some fruits contain more than others. The same is true for vegetables. The sodium content of fruits and vegetables is generally dependent on the sodium in the soil where they were grown. My one year old doesn’t like milk. He screws up his face when he swallows and then pushes the cup away. He does, however, like yogurt and cheese. How much calcium does he need? How much of these foods constitutes a day’s worth of calcium? Your one year old needs 800 mg. of calcium a day. One cup of plain, whole milk yogurt contains 300mg. of calcium. Some non-fat yogurts with non-fat dry milk solids may have up to 400 mg. of calcium. So, 2 to 2 1/2 cups of yogurt
