Something fishy about homecooked infant feeding recipes

Sharon A. Carstairs; Debbi Marais; Leone C. A. Craig; Kirsty Kiezebrink

Something fishy about homecooked infant feeding recipes

Sharon A. Carstairs^* (Corresponding Author), Debbi Marais, Leone C. A. Craig, Kirsty Kiezebrink

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Abstract

There is no evidence available indicating whether popular infant and young child feeding (IYCF) cookbooks provide nutritious options for home-cooking, what the most common food types are within the recipes, and what accompanying dietary advice is provided to parents. This study surveyed available IYCF cookbooks from local libraries and Amazon UK’s top 20 bestsellers (May-July 2013) to examine the prevalence and nutritional content of cookbook recipes comparing these to recommendations whilst investigating the messages portrayed towards parents on giving different foods to their child during IYCF. Vegetable-based recipes (median=29) predominated main-meal options whilst a proportional number of red meat (12), poultry (10) and seafood-based (13) recipes were included providing parents with options of protein-rich recipes for their young child. These home-cooked recipes adequately met or exceeded age-specific dietary recommendations. Mixed messages were apparent on the inclusion of foods during IYCF within and across these cookbooks, in particular for seafood, highlighting a lack of consistent advice portrayed to parents during the early years. Community-based health professionals should advise parents of the inconsistent and incorrect messages on food inclusion portrayed in some IYCF cookbooks and guide them towards formal recommendations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	36-41
Number of pages	6
Journal	Community Practitioner
Volume	89
Issue number	4
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2016

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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the statistical team within the Division of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Aberdeen for their support in analysing the data. This work was supported by The Scottish Government’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) division (LC grant). Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; analysis, and interpretation of data for the work were conducted by Sharon Carstairs (SC) under the supervision of Dr K Kiezebrink (KK), Dr D Marais (DM) and Dr L Craig (LC). Data collection was conducted by SC and a 10% duplicate data extraction by DM.

Financial Support
This work was funded by The Seafish Authority and Interface Food and Drink as part of a Doctorate Scholarship undertaken at the University of Aberdeen (grant number HS053 RBZ0214).

Keywords

infant feeding
home-cooked
early years
child feeding
seafood

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Something fishy about homecooked infant feeding recipes

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