Commercially Prepared and Home Prepared Infant Fruit and

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• 4 Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research, Purdue University, 745 Agriculture Mall Drive,
• 5 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute, 4650 West Sunset Blvd,
• purees. This work had two aims. Study 1 compared the nutritional value of commercially prepared
• infant purees. Study 2 focused on a subset of produce that underwent molecular weight analysis to
• Carbohydrate Microstructure of with all purees having a low eGL (<10 glucose equivalent). In conclusion, these data suggest that
• Purees. Nutrients 2023, 15, 45. Keywords: nutritional profile; carbohydrate microstructure; home prepared; commercially prepared;
• nutrition to starting solid foods around the age of 6 months (1–8). Fruits and vegetables are
• Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. introduction of complementary foods offers infants new tastes and new textures (9,10).
• This article is an open access article the fruits and vegetables food groups (9,10). BLW is a socially desirable approach with a
• distributed under the terms and growing number of publications on the subject. Although BLW is widely known (92% of
• professionals and 93% of parents) (11) and widely used (75% of women) (12), the area of
• Nutrients 2023, 15, 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15010045 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nutrients
• updated on whether BLW would be more beneficial than traditional weaning (14,15). Given
• prepared or commercially prepared purees are cheaper (18). Carstairs et al. (19) concluded
• on their nutritional quality (18–21). Further investigation is needed to strengthen this body
• Prior studies (18–23) have indicated that both commercially prepared and home
• cost (18), commercially prepared purees are convenient and may improve nutritional
• derived proteins (24–26). Given fruits and vegetables are minimal contributors of lipids
• 2. Materials and Methods
• databases (USDA (31), Ciqual (32), and SFK (33)) as the home prepared benchmark to
• (31), Ciqual
• Ciqual (32),
• flowchart is described in Figure 1.
• described in in Figure 1.
• Figure 1. Description of sample selection and analysis of Study 1.
• Figure 1. Description
• flowchart is described in Figure 2. 2.
• 2. Description of sample
• Figure 2. Description of sample selection and analysis of Study 2.
• 2.2. Study 1: Micronutrient Analysis of Commercially Prepared Infant Purees Compared to Food
• 2.2. Micronutrient
• 1: Database Analysis
• tion by infants (34,35). Although white potatoes are the most commonly consumed cate-
• vegetables (34,35).
• reasons: (1)
• children (34,35), white potatoes were excluded for three reasons: (1) white potato puree is (1)
• (34,35),as and
• as a starch and grouped into grains along with pasta and rice (36–39). For commercially (36–39).
• countries will have multiple product formats for a fruit or vegetable puree (Table 1). The full
• Materials (Table S1) and is schematized in Figure 1.
• Table 1. Commercially prepared infant puree count for each fruit and vegetable by country-specific
• Bananas - - - - 1 1 3 5

Methods (brief)

• Figure 1. Description of sample selection and analysis of Study 1.
• 2. Description of sample
• Figure 2. Description of sample selection and analysis of Study 2.
• timing of production from June 2020 to October 2021. To obtain twelve samples of each
• commercially prepared infant fruit and vegetable puree, four samples were pulled from
• the beginning of the production run, four samples were pulled from the middle of the
• production run, and four samples were pulled at the end of the production run. The
• samples were shipped to respective Nestlé Quality Assurance Centers (NQAC) in Dublin,
• nutritional analysis on the twelve samples as a composite.
• The commercially prepared infant puree samples consisted of a composite of 12 sub-
• samples (consumer units) (40). Nutritional components of interest were ash, moisture,
• standard deviation is not expected. The composite of 12 subsamples (consumer units) were
• Raw sample nutrient value ×
• content across samples, and ultimately eliminate unnecessary bias in aggregation of food
• consumption of single fruit purees (34,35). The apples sampled were a blend of Rome and
• carrots sampled were the Canberra variety sourced from Alabama during April 2021. Green
• 2.3.1. Sample Preparation
• Home prepared samples were prepared as such; apples had the outer skins, stalks,

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