An analysis of ten multigrain porridges for babies aged six months or more reveals a "high sugar content" in half of the samples. The excess sugar is a consequence of the hydrolysis of cereals, a technological process that aims to divide starch into simple sugars to make them more digestible.
The OCU has also analyzed the possible presence of 27 possible toxic substances: pesticides, heavy metals, nitrates, mycotoxins, acrylamide, tropane alkaloids or pathogenic bacteria.