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Squeezed Out: Commercial Baby Food Pouch Feeding Practices, Caregiver Perceptions, Caries Experience, and Public Health Implications.

Children (Basel, Switzerland) · Eshaghzadeh C, Kan S, Sa-A R, Tseng CH, Wang Y, Ramos-Gomez F · 2026-08-31

Researchers surveyed caregivers of children using commercial baby food pouches and examined their oral health, finding that popular pouch brands contained high total sugar despite claiming zero added sugars, and frequent pouch consumption was common across early childhood ages.

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