Nestlé adds sugar to baby food in low-income countries, report finds
Swiss Nestlé, the world’s largest infant food company, takes pride in not adding sugar to its baby formulas distributed in Europe. However, in many low-income countries, its products do contain added sugar on a very large scale. In South Africa, Cerelac baby cereal, a Nestlé product for children aged six months and older, contains six grams of sugar per portion—equivalent to approximately one and a half sugar cubes per meal. However, on the packaging of the equivalent product in Switzerland, the words “no added sugar” prominently appear on the packaging. A double standard: that's what the Public Eye organisation is denouncing in a report revealed for the first time on Tuesday by Swiss public television RTS in the programme “A Bon Entendeur”. Low-income countries targeted The organisation and the International Baby Food Action Network analysed the composition of around 100 baby foods sold by Nestlé around the world. The findings are unequivocal: while the Vevey-based multinational ...