We take a look at the labeling of the 4-month Ordesa products (II)

A few days ago we started an analysis of labeling of Ordesa products aimed at 4-month-old babies onwards.

The objective of this analysis is to explain the conclusions that can be drawn by reading the ingredients of the products, see why some of them might be not recommended and therefore show some things that Ordesa It should improve, considering that these are foods intended for babies as young as 4 months, with digestive, renal and immune systems still immature.

Blevit Plus Gluten Free Sinocome range

It is a porridge with selected ingredients, more concentrated and more hydrolyzed to be more palatable to the baby and to provide more calories if it is a baby who "does not eat."

According to Blevit, it is “Indicated for infants who have trouble eating”. If we take into account that at four months a large percentage of babies are little or not at all ready to start eating food and that many of them have a hard time accepting the spoon, we can ensure that it is a food really intended for most babies four months, because many "do not eat."

In other words, Ordesa offers a porridge called "synocome" and sends a message that comes to say that it is normal for babies to eat perfectly after four months. With it, it provides extra calories to alleviate the possible lack of food intake, when it is usual for them to eat a little spoon at that age and continue to prefer milk, which is precisely the ideal, since it is healthier and more balanced and food Main until twelve months.

Giving such a tasty and caloric porridge is to buy many tickets to skip the occasional milk shot, creating a dangerous vicious circle type “you take the porridge, you skip a shot, as you skip a shot it shows me that you eat badly , I give him the porridge again, he skips another shot, he eats fatally, thankfully, at least I give him this porridge that nourishes him. ”

The ingredients of this porridge are: “Dextrinated cereal flour 56% (Rice and Corn), Dextrinomaltose, Skimmed Milk, Sugar, Fructooligosaccharides 3%, Serum Proteins, Mineral Salts (Calcium, Iron), Vitamin Complex (Vitamins: C, Nicotinamide, E, Calcium Pantothenate, B6 , B2, B1, A, Folic acid, K, Biotin, D, B12), Aroma. Made in a factory that uses: Milk, soy and nuts. ”

This porridge carries, besides sugar, skim milk. Remember that skim milk does not enter food to offer after four months (far from it).

It has been enriched with serum proteins that increase the concentration of proteins: On the Ordesa website we can read: "It has a greater energy and protein intake, thanks to its being enriched in milk proteins". We commented a while ago that babies took too much protein and that the ideal was not to provide food with high concentrations.

Taking stock I do not see benefits anywhere for this type of food.

In this same range "Sinocome", we can find a porridge with fruits. It is the same porridge but with Orange, Apple, Banana, Pineapple, Pear and Kiwi.

As we have said on other occasions, pineapple and kiwi are ingredients that a baby should not try until at least six months.

Blevit Plus Gluten Free ready to drink

Blevit, like many other brands, offers products that are ready to drink, suitable for parents with little time but not suitable for babies.

These products usually carry skimmed cow's milk in its composition, something quite laughable and contradictory, if we take into account that pediatricians often insist that we do not offer cow's milk to children until 12 months.

The ingredients of this porridge are: “Skim milk (88%), Hydrolyzed cereal flour without gluten (8.4%): (Rice, Corn and Tapioca), Sugar, Vegetable oils, Fructooligosaccharides (0.3%), Vitamins: (C, Niacin, E , Pantothenic Ac, B1, B6, B2, A, Folic Ac, Biotin, D, B12), Soy Lecithin, Vanilla Aroma, Minerals: (Calcium, Phosphorus and Iron). Made in a factory that uses: Milk and soy. ”

As you can see, 88% of the porridge already prepared is skim milk, almost nothing. Sugar is also present among its ingredients.

Blevit Plus Gluten Free with continuation milk

Also for parents with little time there is this preparation that carries continuation milk so that the preparation is only needing water (so you save having to prepare the milk first and then the cereals).

Good idea, although not recommended again if we consider that the continuation milk, because of the protein content it has, It should not be given to a baby until at least six months of age (even then it is not necessary).

According to Ordesa, this preparation contains 35% continuation milk, the rest, I imagine, should be skimmed, according to the comments in the ingredients: “Dextrinated cereal flour 42% (Rice and Corn), Skimmed Milk, Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Serum Proteins, Dextrinomaltose, Fructooligosaccharides 3%, Mineral Salts (Calcium, Iron), Vitamin Complex (Vitamins: C, Nicotinamide, E, Pantothenate calcium, B6, B2, B1, A, Folic acid, K, Biotin, D, B12), Aroma. Made in a factory that uses: Milk, soy and nuts. ”

Like this same porridge there is another version with fruits whose ingredients are exactly the same but with the addition of bringing apple, pear, orange and banana.

RizCrem Plus

It is a gluten-free porridge whose main ingredient is rice. It is very similar to the "Blevit Plus Rice" porridge, but with the addition of carrying probiotics (lactobacilli and bifidobacteria). Note that it does not carry sugar (seen the ingredients so far).

Its composition is as follows: “93% dextrinated cereal flour (Rice), Dextrinomaltose, Mineral Salts (Calcium, Iron), Vitamin Complex (Vitamins: C, Nicotinamide, E, Calcium Pantothenate, B6, B2, B1, A, Folic Acid, K, Biotin, D, B12), Aroma, Lactic ferments: Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria. Made in a factory that uses: Milk, soy and nuts. ”

Zanasec Plus

It is a preparation very similar to the previous one, with the addition of carrying carrots and sugar.

Carrots are expendable at this age and there are authors and organizations (the AEP, for example) that advise do not give them until at least 7 months of age, for containing nitrates.

The ingredients are: “Carrots 165 g / 100 g, 65% dextrinated cereal flour (rice), Sugar, Dextrinomaltose, Mineral Salts (Calcium, Iron), Vitamin Complex (Vitamins: C, Nicotinamide, E, Calcium Pantothenate, B6, B2, B1, A, Folic acid, K, Biotin, D, B12), Lactic ferments: Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria. Made in a factory that uses: Milk, soy and nuts. ”

¿Plus?

Surely you will have realized, like me, that all the products of Ordesa they have added the name the term "Plus". At first I thought that there were "Plus" products to be differentiated from "no plus", which by definition would have fewer properties, however they do not exist, or I have not been able to see cereal porridge or artificial milks without the denomination plus (if someone wants to know what plus really means, to go through the SAR)

This concludes that this "Plus" is nothing more than a marketing technique to differentiate itself from other brands (and compete). If in one hand I have "Papilla Wachigüei Gluten Free" and in the other "Papilla Julifrí Plus Gluten Free", it is likely that I will keep the Plus, which will always carry more than the other.

It seems like a good strategy, no doubt, however I have not been able to appreciate any component or ingredient that makes these preparations deserve this term if we compare them with those of other brands (if someone has more information about the “plus” they provide, please comment).

Conclusion

After seeing the labeling of the products “from 4 months” of Ordesa I reach the same conclusion as with the previous brands:

Babies need milk exclusively up to six months. From that moment they can start taking other foods that should be as natural as possible.

Industrial preparations are still far from equating with the food we can offer at home, although as parents have less and less time they tend to use these preparations more often than would be ideal.

The solution is to improve the parents' standard of living or work less to live longer. This is easier said than done, so the second solution is that companies that manufacture baby food have a little more in mind the health of children and offer more balanced foods, without ingredients that could affect them or produce allergies and labeled with the ideal time to be offered (and not when they can more or less tolerate it).