Nestlé was caught again adding sugar to baby foods for extra profit. Get
them hooked early, and to hell with public health.

But it’s only profitable if Nestlé can keep the sugar scandal from ruining
its reputation.

So let’s SPREAD THE WORD far and wide to make Nestlé stop adding sugar to
baby foods.

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John,

“Baby killer” Nestlé’s up to its old tricks again.

Cerelac is the world’s number one baby cereal brand, raking in more than
$1 billion for the Swiss food giant. “Happy on the outside, protected from
the inside” is Nestlé’s slogan, but it’s a lie that’s been blown wide open
by an investigation into the corporation’s cynical double standards.

In Switzerland, where Nestlé’s top bosses live, its infant cereals and
formula brands are sold without added sugar – but in lower-income
countries the corporation adds as much as one or two sugar cubes to every
portion, defying World Health Organisation guidelines and feeding the
obesity epidemic affecting low and middle income countries.

For Nestlé it’s all about money – and therein lies our opportunity. If the
corporation can’t keep this sugar scandal from ruining its reputation,
it’ll be forced to go sugar-free.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Nestlé to stop adding sugar to baby foods – and then let’s tell
the whole world!

Experts interviewed by Public Eye for their investigation “How Nestlé gets
children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries” denounced the
company’s double standard, particularly in view of the obesity epidemic
affecting low and middle income countries.

Public Eye and the International Baby Food Action Network reviewed around
150 products sold by Nestlé in lower-income countries. Almost all the
Cerelac infant cereals examined contain added sugar – nearly 4 grams per
serving on average, equal to roughly a sugar cube. That’s a product made
for 6-month-old babies! They also found that Nido, Nestlé’s baby formula
milk brand, was laced with 5.3 grams of added sugar per serving in Panama
and other Central American countries.

Nestlé even recommends publicly to avoid baby foods that contain added
sugar! But it continues aggressively marketing added-sugar baby foods in
lower-income countries anyway, because more sugar helps sell more
products.

Fifty years after the “baby killers” infant formula scandal, Nestlé claims
to have learned from the past. Clearly, this explosive sugar scandal
proves that it hasn’t.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Nestlé to stop adding sugar to baby foods!



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Thanks for all that you do,
Eoin and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries
PublicEye 26 April 2024
 
[ [link removed] ]Infant and young child feeding
World Health Organisation 20 December 2023
 
[ [link removed] ]Delay, Delay, Delay – Industry Interference in Sri Lanka
IBFAN-BMA 09 January 2024

 

 

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