Should Babies Have Pablum?

You don't have to give your baby pablum at any time, either as a first food or later down the line after other foods have been introduced. There's nothing in single-grain cereals that your baby can't get in breast milk, formula, or other solid foods.

Is Pablum cereal OK for babies?

Pablum is a processed cereal for infants originally marketed and co-created by the Mead Johnson Company in 1931. The product was tested on Indigenous Children in Canadian residential schools, and then further developed at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, to combat infant malnutrition.

Is pablum still recommended?

When a baby starts on solid foods at six months or later, there's no need for a highly processed, semi-liquid food like Pablum or another infant cereal. ... In fact, the World Health Organization recommends that babies be offered the foods that are part of the family's usual healthy diet.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

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