Six months after facing a controversy over high sugar levels in Cerelac, Nestlé India announced the launch of its baby food with no refined sugar.
“We have achieved our ambition of introducing ‘Cerelac’ variants with no refined sugar’’, its chairman and managing director Suresh Narayanan said.
This was initiated three years ago and has culminated this year with the introduction of new Cerelac variants with no refined sugar, he added.The expanded Cerelac range in India will now consist of 21 variants, of which 14 variants will have no refined sugar. Of these 14 variants, seven will be available by the end of November, and the balance will be introduced in the coming weeks.
In April, the Swiss biggie found itself in the eye of the storm after a report by Public Eye, a Swiss investigative organization and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) charged that Cerelac baby cereal products sold in India contained added sugar. As against this, in Europe, the report claims, the company does not add any sugar to its infant nutrition products.
