Baby food

Japanese baby food is so different than American baby food! I saw these at the big Nissin grocery store.

This is my favorite. How many American parents think that their babies would eat sardines?


It's amazing to think how baby-food companies train citizens for the national diet. In the U.S., you often see very sweet baby foods like mashed yams and carrots and, in some brands, bland grains tarted up with corn derivatives.

But the Japanese seem to think that (1) seafood is pretty important and (2) sugar doesn't have to be the dominant ingredient.