Whole Kids Organic Soft Cereal Biscuits Spelt & Apple | Chewsday Review
They spelt it out for us, but let's sift through them for ourselves before one of these biscuits crumbles its way into your nappy bag.
- Organic wholegrain spelt flour 33%, organic apple juice concentrate 30%, organic wholegrain oat flour 13%, organic rice flour 11%, organic sunflower oil 9%, organic skimmed milk powder 2%, baking powder 1%, organic vanilla 1%.
- These are mostly made up of different flours, oil and apple juice concentrate.
- Allergens: Milk, gluten, wheat.
- May contain: Egg, tree nuts, soy.
- Sodium is technically within recommendations but it’s higher than I would expect for a sweet baby product (297mg per 100g). Each serve (20g) is only 42mg of sodium but this is about 20% of your baby’s daily salt allowance, so it’s ideal if they’re loving other salty, more nutritious foods (like bread and cheese)!
- Pre-packaged food is convenient to keep in the nappy bag or cupboard, but I’m not convinced this is the product you need. Let’s do some more digging…
- There is no apple puree or pieces in these biscuits, just apple juice concentrate which can be considered in a similar way to added sugar as all of the benefits of the fruit (fibre, micronutrients, antioxidants etc.) have been removed.
- Given the above I’m not surprised the sugar content exceeds my guidelines (23.1g per 100g). Other baby biscuit options also tend to include fruit juice concentrates, but Only Organic Apple Coconut & Flaxseed Biscuits and Little Bellies Organic Animal Biscuits are slightly slower (still above recommendations mind yo). McVities Healthier Choice Digestives are much lower in sugar with only 8.9g of sugar per 100g.
- These are so expensive ($37.50 per kg), but they are cheaper than both the Only Organic and Little Bellies biscuits mentioned above! In comparison, milk Arrowroots are so much cheaper ($10 per kg).
- The fibre content in these biscuits is really lacking. At 1g per serving, fibre doesn’t meet my criteria. For context, Milk Arrowroot contain 0.7g per serve, so not a big difference.
- These biscuits are marketed as a biscuit that you can also melt into milk to make a porridge for your baby, but why do we need to do that? These are much higher in sugar than baby oat cereals, regular or quick oats and Weet-bix.
- “Wholegrain goodness.” Technically these biscuits do contain wholegrain flour.
- “Easy on-the-go porridge.” As I mentioned above, I just don’t think this is necessary at all.
- “Ideal for self-feeding.” Aren’t all skill-appropriate finger foods ideal for self-feeding?
- Overall, I wouldn’t recommend these as a regular baby snack (or porridge) due to their high sugar content and higher-than-necessary sodium content.
- The baby food aisle really doesn’t offer a great range of biscuit-type snacks. Lots of them contain fruit concentrates and they’re really expensive.
- If you really want to give your baby a biscuit (or someone else does 👀), something like McVitie’s Healthier Choice Digestives is cheaper and lower in sugar (although still contains added sugar).
- And if you’re trying to introduce a snack to your baby, I’d suggest considering it as another opportunity to eat rather than feeling like you need to offer ‘snack’ food.
- If you need more support knowing when to introduce a snack and what kinds of foods to offer, you’ll find all of the information you need in Baby Mealtimes.
The composition of food products changes regularly. The nutritional values of the products in this Chewsday Review were correct at the time of publishing.
