Toddlers may be getting hooked on sugar in snacks
Some weaning snacks encourage a sweet tooth from an early age, say health campaigners. …
Dr Kawther Hashem, Campaign Lead at Action on Sugar, and Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, said it was “ludicrous” that certain food companies were being allowed to promote high-sugar sweet snacks to parents with very young children, despite them being aware that babies and toddlers shouldn’t be having any free sugars.