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By The Canadian Press

TORONTO – Gerber, one of the best-known names in baby food, has been named this year’s recipient of the “Salt Lick Award” due to the high sodium content in one of its prepared meals for toddlers.

The Canadian Stroke Network and the Advanced Foods & Materials Network chose Gerber Graduates Lil’ Entrees because the product line’s Chicken & Pasta Wheel Pickups dinner contains 550 mg of sodium – more than half a toddler’s adequate daily intake of 1,000 mg.

The organizations say the amount of sodium in the prepared food is equivalent to that contained in two medium orders of McDonald’s french fries. McDonald’s Canada website says a medium order of fries contains 270 mg of sodium.

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Brandchannel recently published Mon Dieu! French Cheese Brands Losing To Processed Competitors;

French women do indeed get fat – and that may be the result of their progressively Americanized diets.

The stereotypical image of the French sipping on a glass of red wine and lingering over a warm baguette and their favorite Camembert is changing as more mass-produced, processed, fast food brands enter their market.

Take cheese, for example. Raw-milk cheeses used to account for virtually all French production until World War II and the arrival of the US military. Today, it’s a dying brand with only a seven percent market share according to the cheese-boosters’ group.