ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS IN INFANT AND CHILD NUTRITION

An estimation of potential health risks associated with artificial swe eteners in infant and child food is possible only on the basis of ADI values for adults. Supposing a moderately artificially sweetened prote in hydrolysate formula as the daily ration of a 5-month-old infant, an d artificially sweetened beverages preferred by a 6-year-old child to meet its daily liquid requirements the authors have shown that the ADI values may be exceeded at least for some sweeteners. They conclude th at, as a precaution, diets of infants and children should not contain artificial sweeteners.