The Hidden Costs of Baby Food Cereal: What Industrial Processing Really Does to Your Baby‘s Food

When parents reach for a box of infant rice cereal, they see simplicity: rice, vitamins, perhaps a touch of sweetness. What they rarely see is the industrial process that transforms a humble grain into the fine, instant-mixing powder sold as a baby’s first solid food. That process—extrusion puffing—is efficient, cheap, and nearly universal in the […]