ReviewNutrients2019
Infant Cereals: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities for Whole Grains.
Review in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed.
- Iron Bioavailability from Infant Cereals Containing Whole Grains and Pulses: A Stable Isotope Study in Malawian Children.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Trial
- Effects of Whole-Grain and Sugar Content in Infant Cereals on Gut Microbiota at Weaning: A Randomized Trial.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Are Sugar-Reduced and Whole Grain Infant Cereals Sensorially Accepted at Weaning? A Randomized Controlled Cross-Over Trial.Nutrients · 2020Trial
- Healthy and Sustainable Food Choices in European Households: A Cross-Cultural Study of Knowledge, Practices, Intentions, and Barriers.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Article
- Early Childhood Dietary Exposure of Aflatoxins and Fumonisins in Tanzania: Role in Child Stunting and Possible Interventions (2003-2024).Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Influence of Thermal Processing on In Vitro Starch Digestibility in Cereal-Based Infant Foods.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of Fortified Whole Grain Infant Cereal on the Nutrient Density of the Diet in Brazil, the UAE, and the USA: A Dietary Modeling Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Whole grain intake among young children ages 12 to 48 months participating in the Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study was higher in 2016 compared to 2008.Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Carbohydrate intakes, food sources and tracking in Australian young children.The British journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Current Evidence on Nutrient Intakes and Infant Growth: A Narrative Review of Baby-Led Weaning vs. Conventional Weaning.Nutrients · 2024Review
- A Descriptive Study of Spanish and Ecuadorian Commercial Infant Cereals: Are They in Line with Current Recommendations?Nutrients · 2024Article
- Co-ingestion of Cereals and Legumes during Infant Complementary Feeding: Starch and Protein in vitro Digestion.Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Essential and Toxic Elements in Infant Cereal in Brazil: Exposure Risk Assessment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Evaluation of maternal performance about food security in dietary diversity for children aged 12-24 months and its relationship with anthropometric measurements.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Wholegrain intake, growth and metabolic markers in Danish infants and toddlers: a longitudinal study.European journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Nutritional Facts and Health/Nutrition Claims of Commercial Plant-Based Infant Foods: Where Do We Stand?Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Commercial Complementary Food in Germany: A 2020 Market Survey.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Nutritional Composition of Infant Cereal Prototypes Can Precisely Predict Their Glycemic Index.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Mycotoxins of Concern in Children and Infant Cereal Food at European Level: Incidence and Bioaccessibility.Toxins · 2022Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Infant cereals play an important role in the complementary feeding period. The aim of this study was to review existing research about the quantity, type, and degree of infant cereal processing, with a special focus on whole grain infant cereals. Accumulating evidence shows many benefits of whole grain consumption for human health. Likewise, consumers are frequently linking the term whole grains to healthiness and naturality, and sustainable food production becomes a more important aspect when choosing an infant cereal brand. Whole grain cereals should be consumed as early as possible, i.e., during infancy. However, there are several challenges that food manufacturers are facing that need to be addressed. Recommendations are needed for the intake of whole grain cereals for infants and young children, including product-labeling guidelines for whole grain foods targeting these age stages. Another challenge is minimizing the higher contaminant content in whole grains, as well as those formed during processing. Yet, the greatest challenge may be to drive consumers' acceptance, including taste. The complementary feeding period is absolutely key in shaping the infant's food preferences and habits; therefore, it is the appropriate stage in life at which to introduce whole grain cereals for the acceptance of whole grains across the entire lifespan.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.