Question follow-through · 9896
Infant Foods: Nutrition
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of taking steps to improve the nutritional content of commercial baby food.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of taking steps to improve the nutritional content of commercial baby food.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
A 2019 evidence review showed that babies and young children are exceeding their energy intake requirement and are eating too much sugar and salt. Some commercial baby foods, particularly finger foods, had added sugar or salt, or contained ingredients tha...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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