Nutritionist warns against setting salty taste buds in infancy
Toddlers who are frequently fed salty foods are more likely to develop a taste for it later in life.That is the warning from Charlotte Stirling-Reed, nutrition consultant for Greatvine.com, who suggested that changing food preferences later in life is difficult.
She said: "If [toddlers] develop a taste for a particular high salt intake food that is likely to carry on with them right into their adulthood."
Ms Stirling-Reed suggested that the issue of babies having too much salt in their diet is "quiet widespread" and she said that she encounters infants with nutritionally unbalanced diets on a daily basis.
Her comments come in light of research by the University of Bristol, which revealed that seventy per cent of eight-month old babies have more salt in their diet than the amount recommended by the government.
According to the guidelines, babies under 12 months of age should have less than one gram of salt per day, which increases to two grams for those aged between one and three years of age.
