Commercial complementary food consumption is prospectively associated with added sugar intake in childhood Foterek, Kristina Buyken, Anette Bolzenius, Katja Hilbig, Annett Nöthlings, Ute Alexy, Ute <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Given that commercial complementary food (CF) can contain high levels of added sugar, a high consumption may predispose to a preference for sweet taste later in life. This study examined cross-sectional associations between commercial CF consumption and added sugar intake in infancy as well as its prospective relation to added sugar intake in pre-school and primary-school age children. In all, 288 children of the Dortmund Nutritional and Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed Study with 3-d weighed dietary records at 0·5 and 0·75 (infancy), 3 and 4 (pre-school age) and 6 and 7 years of age (primary-school age) were included in this analysis. Individual commercial CF consumption as percentage of total commercial CF (%cCF) was averaged at 0·5 and 0·75 years. Individual total added sugar intake (g/d, energy percentage/d) was averaged for all three age groups. Multivariable logistic and linear regression models were used to analyse associations between %cCF and added sugar intake. In infancy, a higher %cCF was associated with odds for high added sugar intake from CF and for high total added sugar intake (&gt;75th percentile, <jats:italic>P</jats:italic>&lt;0·033). Prospectively, a higher %cCF was related to higher added sugar intake in both pre-school (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic>&lt;0·041) and primary-school age children (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic>&lt;0·039), although these associations were attenuated in models adjusting for added sugar intake in infancy. A higher %cCF in infancy may predispose to higher added sugar intake in later childhood by virtue of its added sugar content. Therefore, offering home-made CF or carefully chosen commercial CF without added sugar might be one strategy to reduce sugar intake in infancy and later on.</jats:p> 2016 info:eu-repo/semantics/article doc-type:article text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/26924 Foterek K, Buyken A, Bolzenius K, Hilbig A, Nöthlings U, Alexy U. Commercial complementary food consumption is prospectively associated with added sugar intake in childhood. <i>British Journal of Nutrition</i>. Published online 2016:2067-2074. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007114516001367">10.1017/s0007114516001367</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1017/s0007114516001367 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0007-1145 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1475-2662 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess