TY - JOUR T1 - A comparison of preprepared commercial infant feeding meals with home-cooked recipes JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 1037 LP - 1042 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2015-310098 VL - 101 IS - 11 AU - Sharon A Carstairs AU - Leone CA Craig AU - Debbi Marais AU - Ourania E Bora AU - Kirsty Kiezebrink Y1 - 2016/11/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/101/11/1037.abstract N2 - Objectives To compare the cost, nutritional and food variety contents of commercial meals and published infant and young child feeding (IYCF) home-cooked recipes, and to compare nutritional contents to age-specific recommendations.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Full range of preprepared main meals available within the UK market. Main-meal recipes identified from a survey of Amazon's top 20 best-sellers and IYCF cookbooks available from local libraries.Samples 278 commercial IYCF savoury meals from UK market and 408 home-cooked recipes from best-selling IYCF published cookbooks.Main outcome measures Cost and nutritional content per 100 g and food variety per meal for both commercial meals and home-cooked recipes.Results Commercial products provided more ‘vegetable’ variety per meal (median=3.0; r=−0.33) than home-cooked recipes (2.0). Home-cooked recipes provided 26% more energy and 44% more protein and total fat than commercial products (r=−0.40, −0.31, −0.40, respectively) while costing less (£0.33/100 g and £0.68/100 g, respectively). The majority of commercial products (65%) met energy density recommendations but 50% of home-cooked recipes exceeded the maximum range.Conclusions The majority of commercial meals provided an energy-dense meal with greater vegetable variety per meal to their home-cooked counterparts. Home-cooked recipes provided a cheaper meal option, however the majority exceeded recommendations for energy and fats. ER -