How much sugar is in your formula?
New grandmother Nancy Brecj said she didn’t believe her eyes when she couldn’t find sugar listed on formula she was looking at for her granddaughter.
“We looked at all of the formulas in the grocery store, even the store brand ones, and none of them listed the sugar grams per serving. None of them,” she said. “I called the company and said how many grams of sugar per serving are in your baby formula? And, ‘Well, ma’am, we don’t add sugar to baby formulas.’”
But with corn syrup solids listed first in ingredients, Brecj said she wasn’t buying it.
NBC reporter Lisa Parker went to an independent lab with seven popular baby formulas for testing.
Scientists did a sugar profile on each sample, testing for five types of sugar. Among the results, Enfamil Premium and Parent’s Choice Premium infant formulas had the highest sugar content: 13.5 and 12.4 grams per serving.
