Nestlé porridge: customer reviews. Types and assortment of Nestle cereals

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Nestlé porridge is one of the products of the famous Swiss company Nestle, which has been a leader in various trade areas (baby food, chocolate, coffee, pet food, cosmetics, etc.) for more than a century. The attitude of parents to this product is ambiguous, so let's take a closer look at the advantages and disadvantages of baby food.

General characteristics of cereals

For the growth and development of babies, Nestlé brand manufacturers have developed special cereals in the form of a dry powder, which are diluted with milk or water. Their peculiarity is not only in quick cooking, but also in a balanced composition of minerals, trace elements, vitamins, dietary fiber.

In addition, many Nestle cereals contain live bifidobacteria, which have a positive effect on the child's intestines. The benefit of these microorganisms is that the immune system is strengthened, the intestinal microflora improves and the risk of allergies is reduced.

In some varieties, along with bifidobacteria, there are also micronutrients necessary forfull development and growth of children. This is especially suitable for those babies who are selective in food, switched to artificial feeding, do not receive a full complex of vitamins and minerals.

Porridges of this brand were made specifically for the characteristics of each age. Therefore, pay attention to the packaging, where it is written for whom this food is suitable (allergy sufferers, a certain age, children with sensitivity to lactose or gluten, etc.).

Nestlé porridge: assortment

This brand sells the following types of baby food:

• Dairy free. The very first step in a baby's acquaintance with adult food. Porridges contain essential vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and bifidobacteria. Buckwheat and rice products do not contain gluten and lactose. Oat baby food contains vegetable protein and a small amount of gluten.
• Dairy. This product can be diluted with milk. This series contains buckwheat, rice, wheat, oatmeal in its pure form and with the addition of fruits.
• Dairy-free "Help" series. These are “water” porridge preparations for Nestle. Dairy-free in their composition contain bifidobacteria and prebiotics, which is especially suitable for children whose tummy is constantly swelling. This series has developed a collection of baby food for allergy sufferers.
• Dairy series "Help". This product is represented by two yoghurt cereal porridges with banana-strawberry and apple-pear flavors. They contain immunonutrients and probiotics,necessary to normalize the digestive system and strengthen immunity.



• Series "Shagayka". These products are designed for children who are taking their first steps and learning to chew. Porridges are represented by three types of five cereals with strawberry-cherry, apple-berry and strawberry-fruit flavors.

Types of Nestlé baby cereals

You can see a baby icon on the package with numbers or steps that show the optimal age for introducing complementary foods.

• 1 step. This is a series of milk and dairy-free cereals intended for initial feeding, when the first buckwheat and rice are introduced into the diet of a 4-5-month-old baby. The composition of baby food for this age has a light texture to make it easy to swallow.
• 2 step - from 6-7 months. Nestlé cereals of this age have fruit and pumpkin additives, a thicker consistency and teach the child to eat from a spoon. These products also have dairy-free and dairy categories.
• 3 step - from 8-11 months. These are multi-component milk and dairy-free cereals with fruit pieces. This type of baby food is specially designed for the child to learn to chew food.
• 4 step from 12-18 months. Balanced milk nutrition with pieces of fruits and berries.

Nestlé porridge: dairy-free

Let's take a closer look at the composition of dairy-free cereals: oatmeal, hypoallergenic rice, and buckwheat, buckwheat with prunes.

Oatmeal contains the following components: 9 vitamins (A, E, B1, 2, 6, D, C, PP, folic acid),sugar, lecithin (emulsifier), 7 minerals (potassium, sodium, iodine, iron, calcium, zinc, phosphorus), dietary fiber, bifidobacteria BL, oatmeal. The advantage of oatmeal is the absence of dyes, flavors, preservatives and GMI. Numerous reviews of Nestle cereals highlight one drawback - the presence of sugar.

Hypoallergenic rice porridge suitable for children with lactose and gluten intolerance. The composition of vitamins, minerals, bifidobacteria is the same as in oatmeal. Only their quantity is different and rice flour is added.

Hypoallergenic buckwheat is also distinguished by the presence of buckwheat flour in the composition. However, this type of porridge is not popular with kids who prefer rice and oatmeal. Baby food with prunes has the same composition as plain buckwheat, only prunes are added.

Assortment of milk porridges

If dairy-free food is designed for children with hypersensitivity to lactose and gluten, as well as he althy babies from four months old, then Nestlé milk porridges are suitable for all three age stages:

• For the first stage, we offer oatmeal with apple-apricot flavor, plain buckwheat and dried apricots, two types of wheat (with pumpkin, apple), rice with apple.
• From six months old, a child can buy wheat with banana, banana-flavored rice, porridge of five (apple-banana) and three (apple-pear) cereals, oatmeal with pear and banana.
• For eight-month-old children, oatmeal with pear pieces, wheat of two types is offered: with apple-strawberryand apricot flavor.

If you decide to introduce complementary foods, then pay attention to Nestlé dairy-free baby cereals. Their assortment is not as diverse as in dairy products, but it eliminates the risk of allergies. Despite the fact that cereals of this brand do not contain genetically modified sources, preservatives, flavors, some babies may develop individual intolerance to the components of baby food.

Composition of milk porridges 1 step

• Rice gluten-free apple porridge consists of rice flour, sugar, skimmed milk powder, 10 vitamins (pantothenic acid added), bifidobacteria, 7 minerals (same), vegetable oils, apple, dietary fiber.
• Gluten-free buckwheat adds buckwheat flour, m altodextrin, lecithin to its composition. All other components are the same as in the above porridge. In the version with dried apricots, apricot and dried apricots are added.
• Oatmeal with apple-apricot flavor is the most enriched in vitamin B and iodine. It contains components such as oatmeal, 10 vitamins (pantothenic acid is added), dietary fiber, sugar, bifidobacteria, skimmed milk powder, 7 minerals (the same), vegetable oils, apple and apricot.
• Wheat porridge adds wheat flour and additives - pumpkin or apple. All other ingredients are the same as in oatmeal or rice.

Please note that Nestlé baby oatmeal contains a small amount of gluten,therefore, you can enter this porridge no earlier than 4 and no later than 7 months to eliminate the risk of celiac disease.

What do porridges consist of 2 steps

• Gluten-Free Banana Flavored Rice Porridge Consists of Rice Flour, Sugar, Vegetable Oils, Dietary Fiber, Banana, Bifidobacteria, Skimmed Milk Powder, 10 Vitamins (Same as First Step) and 7 Minerals.
• Five-grain porridge with apple and banana is enriched with phosphorus, calcium and vitamin D. It also contains wheat, rice, oatmeal, barley, corn flour, a standard vitamin-mineral complex, bifidobacteria, apple, banana, sugar, food fiber, milk powder, vegetable oils.
• Three-cereal porridge has the same composition as the previous one, only consists of oatmeal, wheat, barley flour, apple and pear.
• Oatmeal product is saturated with iodine and vitamin B. Oatmeal, banana and pear are added to the composition, the rest of the components are standard.
• Wheat porridge differs only in banana additive and wheat flour.

Children love Nestlé fruit porridge. Moms' reviews say that children are happy to eat rice and multi-cereal, but buckwheat and oatmeal are optional.

Components of cereals 3 steps. Parent feedback

• Pear Oatmeal includes skimmed milk powder, oatmeal, vegetable oils, standard vitamins and minerals, dietary fiber, bifidobacteria, sugar, pear pieces.
• Wheat porridge withapple and strawberry, except for wheat flour, garden strawberry pieces and apple, the composition is the same as in the first production.
• Wheat with apricot compared to the previous version has an apricot additive.

Now let's pay attention to the opinions of customers who have tried Nestle cereals. Reviews are very varied. In most cases, mothers are satisfied with the product, they note a good appetite in the child, weight gain, good mood and energy.

However, parents whose children are prone to allergies, diseases of the digestive system, are dissatisfied with Nestlé products because of the sugary-sweet taste and the presence of milk in the composition. These children develop skin rashes, constipation, and regurgitation.

Therefore, parents, doctors, and the product manufacturer recommend starting complementary foods with dairy-free cereals: from 1 spoon without introducing other new products, to see the child's reaction to baby food components.

Ingredients of Pomogayka porridges

Dairy-free porridges of the first stage are represented by hypoallergenic rice porridge with carob and low-allergenic rice-corn product. In the first version, the composition excludes allergic ingredients: cow's milk protein, soy and wheat, as well as gluten. The first porridge consists of rice flour, carob flour, sucrose, citric acid, vitamins, vegetable oils, potassium iodide, sodium phosphate, calcium carbonate, zinc sulfate, iron lactate. In the second version, the product consists of rice and cornflour, vanilla flavoring, other components meet the standard.

Nestlé dairy-free porridges of the second stage are also presented in two types: 5-cereal with linden blossom and wheat-oatmeal with prunes. The first sugar-free product consists of wheat, corn, barley, oat and rye flour, probiotics, vitamins and minerals, oligofructose, lime blossom dry extract, inulin, vanilla flavor, m altodextrin. In the second porridge, only flour is changed to oatmeal and wheat, prunes are added instead of linden, the rest of the components remain the same.

Dairy-free products of the third stage are represented by 8-grain yogurt and just 8-grain porridge. They include rice, corn, wheat, rye, oat, millet and sorghum flour; lactobacilli, vanilla flavor, thermophilic culture, powdered yogurt. The vitamin-mineral complex remains the same.

Milk 3-cereal porridge 3 steps have a banana-strawberry and apple-pear taste. They include barley, oat and rice flour, bifidobacteria, vitamins and minerals, vanilla flavor, skimmed yogurt powder and milk powder, vegetable oils (coconut, palm, rapeseed, sunflower), fruit and berry pieces, sugar, beet juice, gluten, lactobacilli.

Porridge "Shagayka"

This series presents products of the third and fourth steps. In the first case, it is a 5-grain gluten porridge with a cherry-strawberry flavor, consisting of wheat, corn, barley, rice, oatmeal.flour, oils (same composition), milk powder, strawberry, apple, carrot, dried orange and pear pieces, vanilla flavor, beetroot and passion fruit juice, lecithin, sugar, minerals and vitamins, bifidobacteria, m altodextrin, cornstarch.

In the second case, there are more varied Nestle baby cereals. Their range is represented by a 5-cereal product with apple-berry and strawberry-fruit flavors. The composition is the same, only fruit additives change.

As you can see, the assortment of cereals is very diverse and suitable for different categories of children. If the child has an allergy, then pay attention to dairy-free, allergenic products. The manufacturer warns that individual intolerance to porridge components may appear, so watch the child's reaction.