Ho acquistato questo prodotto Cerelac della Nestle per curiosità perché ho letto che nei paesi in via di sviluppo contiene zucchero aggiunto (circa 25-28 grammi) che può essere zucchero o miele, ma in Germania e Svizzera, ad esempio, non contiene zuccheri aggiunti. Nell’elenco degli ingredienti, non riesco a trovare zucchero, miele o dolcificante di alcun tipo. Contiene circa il 25 percento di latte in polvere che può avere una certa quantità di zuccheri naturali, ma è impossibile che sia alto come 28 g per 100 g perché è come la quantità di zucchero di una torta. Quindi mi chiedo se mi sia perso qualcosa, perché se fosse solo un errore, sarebbe abbastanza strano dato che questo è un prodotto alimentare per bambini e dovrebbe essere soggetto a rigide normative.
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The Wheat flour. Carbohydrate rich food contains a lot of sugar per default. Also as you said: The milkpowder too.
Flour is basically starch, a complex carbohydrate.
I imagine that the “teilweise aufgeschlossen” (literally: partially unlocked) here refers to splitting up the long-chain carbohydrates into shorter-chain carbohydrates, some of which can be sugars.
It fits. 100 g of powdered milk contains abt. 38 grams of sugar, sometimes even more. This is 25 % that – it is 400 g so theres 100 g of powdered milk
Magermilchpulver contains 38g of sugar per 100g.
It’s Laktose
Flour and milk.
The flour is treated such that some of the normally long carbohydrates are chopped into smaller parts and sugar are very short carbohydrates.
“Magermilchpulver” – skimmed milk powder has a lot of sugar. Googled it and there are numbers between 40-60g per 100g, so yeah pretty high.
Milk powder contains lots of sugar
Nestle was/is caught adding sucrose and other form of sugar in Non-european countries, which is forbidden in EU and other developed countries.
[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/17/nestle-adds-sugar-to-infant-milk-sold-in-poorer-countries-report-finds](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/17/nestle-adds-sugar-to-infant-milk-sold-in-poorer-countries-report-finds)
Milkpowder.
Lactose present in milk is a sugar.
lactose
The thing is: not all sugars are the same thing (as in, not all of them are sucrose, which is what you are thinking of when talking of cake, and that itself is made of two sugars: glucose and fructose. You can also buy either of these two sugars as ingredients).
As others have written: milk alone has a lot of lactose, which is a sugar and other ingredients have other sugars. The chemical name of most sugars ends with “ose” in English, if you really want to search which sugars exist in which ingredient.
And of course, not all sugars have the same effect in the body or are processed equally.
The carbs in the wheat flour were spliced into sugars (thats what the “teilweise aufgeschlossen” means), and milk powder is sugar (lactose) to a large part, as well
White flour is starch and “aufgeschlossen” meant shorter sugars.
To the OP, please define “sugar” better in your question. Do you mean specifically sucrose or generally sugars in a broad chemical sense?
There are different columns in the nutrition facts. There is one where just 100 g of just the powder is listed and one with 100 g of prepared food.
Since only water is added to prepare the food, the prepared food naturally has a lower sugar content than the unprepared powder.
Midwife told us only to feed PRE milk in the first year, others are not regulated by law and may contain whatever the producer likes to.
>Can someone explain to me where do 28 g of sugar come from?
I’m not sure why you look for sugar. You wrote it yourself:
>I have read that in developing countries it has added sugar (about 25-28 grams) which is either sugar or honey but it Germany and Switzerland for example, it contains no added sugars.
>In the list of ingredients, I can’t see to find any sugar, honey or sweetener of any sort.
Yes, that’s a German package, so it doesn’t contain added sugar.