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#144: What Did Babies Eat Before Baby Food was Invented? with Amy Bentley, PhD
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📝 Episode Description
What did babies eat before baby food was invented? Food historian Amy Bentley, PhD, author of Inventing Baby Food, joins me to unpack how commercial baby food, changing medical advice and clever marketing transformed the way we feed babies. If you’ve ever stood in the baby food aisle wondering whether your baby actually needs all of those jars, pouches and products, this episode will help you understand how we got here—and why babies are capable of eating real food from the start.
👥 About the Guest
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Amy Bentley, PhD, is a food historian and Professor of Food Studies in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University, where her work explores the social, historical and cultural contexts of food.
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Amy is the author of Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet, an award-winning history of how commercial baby food, medical advice and changing parenting practices transformed infant feeding in America.
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Amy’s interest in baby food began after becoming a mom herself and wondering what parents fed their babies before grocery stores had entire aisles devoted to commercial baby food—a question that ultimately became the basis for Inventing Baby Food
💡Listen to this episode to learn
1. What babies ate before commercial baby food became the norm
2. How medical advice and marketing transformed the way parents feed babies
3. Why jars, pouches and other baby food products became so popular
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📢 Other Episodes Related To This Topic
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Episode 458 - Bananas are Bad for Babies…and Other Historical Infant Feeding Practices with Jennifer Traig
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Episode 250 - Misleading Marketing Claims on Baby Foods with Ada Lizbeth Garcia, PhD
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Episode 149 - Pouches: Why Your Baby Doesn’t Need to Suck Pureed Food Out of Pouches with @msdawnslp Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP
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