Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

CONSUMERS‘ EXPECTATIONS IN BABY FOOD PRODUCTS WITH REFERENCE TO INDIAN MARKET

Dr. V. Pradeepa

Abstract :

 

Baby food varies from culture to culture. In many cultures, pastes of grain and liquids are the first baby food. In human history and presently with many cultures around the world, babies are fed food premasticated by the caretaker of the baby in order to pulverize the food and start the digestion process. An infant’s first bite of solid food is ceremonial and holds religious importance in many cultures. An example of this is ‘annaprashan’, a Hindu ritual where the infant is fed sweetened rice porridge, usually blessed, by an elder family member. Similar rites of passage are practiced across Asia.

            Baby food is any soft, easily consumed food, other than east milk or infant formula that is made specifically for infants, roughly between the ages of four to six months and two years. The food comes in multiple varieties and tastes; it may be table food that the rest of the family is eating which has been mashed or otherwise oken down, or it can be purchased ready–made from the market.

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Dr. V.Pradeepa, CONSUMERS' EXPECTATIONS IN BABY FOOD PRODUCTS WITH REFERENCE TO INDIAN MARKET, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-1 | January-2018

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