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Almost every childcare book offers the same advice about a baby's first solid meal -- start them first on rice cereal mixed with breast milk or formula. This has been received wisdom for 60 years.
But this is because in the 1950's, baby food companies launched an advertising blitz trumpeting the benefits of white rice cereal.