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The joys of parenting in the US

I'm starting to think that the 'land of the free' is actually referring to corporations not individuals

It's one of the reasons we tend to buy a lot of things for my son from England despite living in DC

The joys of parenting in the US

I'm starting to think that the 'land of the free' is actually referring to corporations not individuals

It's one of the reasons we tend to buy a lot of things for my son from England despite living in DC https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1834925065676128374

Did you read the paper?

I haven’t but it sure smells like clickbait. What does “nutritional standards” mean for a jar of sweet potatoes or apple sauce?

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Europe has what is referred to as a nutrient and promotion profile model for infant and toddler foods - basically guidelines

The US has no nutrition or promotional guidelines for infant and toddler foods - literally nothing

So the study used the NPPM model from Europe, which has been rigorously studied and tested, and tested commercially available infant and toddler foods in the US against that framework

US food on average is dogshit, so the results are not surprising

Source https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/16/2782

Skimming this, it's mostly about labels, not what's in products. Most of the failures were from product names, lack of consumption instructions, etc. not following EU standards.

For example, most pouches in the US don't have a warning about letting kids drink from the spout, which is required in the EU:

I'm less concerned about the promotional standards not being met (which this refers to) - as sensible parents would read things like the ingredients list or know what to do or not do with the packaging

I'm more concerned that the other part of the study that focused on nutritional composition, where basically a majority of products exceed guideline nutritional standards

ICYI https://www.semanticscholar.org/ is a great way to dig into academic and research papers and distill key points (when you don't have the time or appetite to read something end to end)