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The Development of Eating Behaviors
Published in Emily Crews Splane, Neil E. Rowland, Anaya Mitra, Psychology of Eating, 2019
Emily Crews Splane, Neil E. Rowland, Anaya Mitra
Typically, solid foods are introduced to complement breast milk or formula at around four to six months, the age at which infants have developed the motor coordination for swallowing food. Rice cereal mixed with breast milk or formula is often a first “solid” food (food is more soggy than solid in the early exposures). Later, pureed meats, fruits, and vegetables are added. Most babies have an innate preference for the sweet-tasting (and more energy-dense) fruits and veggies, such as pureed bananas, sweet potatoes, applesauce, and peaches, and an aversion for the bitter foods such as pureed green beans or spinach. As discussed earlier in this chapter, repeated exposure to initially disliked foods effectively increases the liking and acceptance of those foods. Around seven to nine months, finger foods are added, requiring the fine motor coordination of a pincher grasp.
Safety considerations when managing gastro-esophageal reflux disease in infants
Published in Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, 2021
Melina Simon, Elvira Ingrid Levy, Yvan Vandenplas
Randomized controlled trials on thickened feeds did seldom include adverse events as one of the outcomes, but concerns have been raised [48]. Cereal thickeners, especially rice has been linked to arsenic exposure which has been associated to an increased risk of cancer, neurotoxicity, cardiovascular and respiratory disease [48,58]. The United States Food and Drug Administration [58] and the European Commission proposed in 2016 a limit of 100 parts per billion for inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal. However, the level of arsenic in rice containing infant formulas is well controlled and within the recommendations [59].
Estimation of total arsenic contamination and exposure in Brazilian rice and infant cereals
Published in Drug and Chemical Toxicology, 2021
Nuryan Fão, Sabrina Nascimento, Alex Huaman de La Cruz, Dionisio Calderon, Rafael Rocha, Tatiana Saint’Pierre, Adriana Gioda, Flavia V. Thiesen, Natália Brucker, Tatiana Emanuelli, Solange Cristina Garcia
The tAs levels were quantified in several types of rice and infant cereals marketed and consumed by the Brazilian population. Moreover, we compared the tAs concentrations found in this study with the iAs limits proposed by regulatory agencies, since previous studies have already shown that most As in rice products is iAs (75.2–90.1%) (Sun et al. 2009, Carbonell-Barrachina et al. 2012, Karagas et al. 2016, Guillod-Magnin et al. 2018). In addition, iAs is also dominant in infant rice cereal (Chiger and Lynch 2017, Rego et al. 2018).