Grain foods for infant diets

A new study recently published in Nutritients, a Us peer-reviewed medical journal of human nutrition, highlights the importance of grains as part of a healthy infant diet – and the potential risks of excluding them.
Undertaken to inform the development of the first-ever Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2020-2025) to include specific recommendations for infants and toddlers, the study analyzed infant data from the 2001-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (Nhanes) to assess grain food relationships with nutrient and energy intakes, diet quality, and food group consumption in infant grain consumers relative to non-consumers. «This study is the first to examine grain consumption patterns among Us infants using Nhanes and clearly provides evidence for what organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC, have been suggesting for decades: grains support the backbone of a healthy infant diet», says study author Yanni Papanikolaou, MPH, of Nutritional Strategies.
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