“No starchy or farinaceous food should be given to an infant under 6 months of age, it is not only useless, for the young infant cannot digest starch, but is a frequent cause of illness & rickets”
So ran an advert from 1909.
Much better instead to feed baby on Allenburys’ Foods: “suitable for the delicate & robust, children thrive upon them as on no other diet”
The foods were described as made from fresh cows milk, scientifically modified so as to closely resemble human milk – excess casein (indigestible curd) had been removed. What seems a little startling to one used to more modern exhortations about feeding baby is that “the deficiency of fat & milk sugar has been made good.”
However mothers were assured that all risk of one kind had been eliminated – any possible contamination by noxious germs had been removed by Pasteurisation.
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