Watch out, everyone. One of my buttons got pushed. In Israel,
cornflour (or cornstarch to some of you), which is a sauce/soup
thickener with no food value where I come from, **is marketed in
packages with a huge picture of a baby on it** and **sold in the
baby food section of the food stores**. It used to be recommended
to give to baby mixed in milk in cases of slow weight gain (both
breast- and bottle-fed. Babies bloated very nicely.....Yuck. I've
been fighting this for years!  :-(  At least in the past few
years, the local baby food companies have added "vitamins and
minerals" to some cornflour "baby cereals". However, the baby
still remains on the plain cornflour packaging, so the message is
still there.....
BTW, Israeli bottlefeeding moms give cereal, soup, pureed fruits
and vegetables, the kitchen sink, you name it, via bottles.
Fairly turns me stomach, it do. I wonder if these are the kids
who go to first grade with their pacifiers in their little
schoolbags.....Sigh.
Judy Knopf in Beer Sheva, Israel