In Italy, Merrill Lynch has become almost synonymous with infant food, and both milk powder and complementary food products are recommended by local doctors. As one of the most popular brands in China's Mama Haitao, Merrill Lynch's products are made from safe raw materials and natural tastes, most of which are produced in its own high-quality farms and pastures, and have passed the EU organic certification, and are now owned by the Danone Group.
As a professional children's food brand with a history of more than 100 years, Merrill Lynch pays more attention to niche groups, and its products include a gluten-free rice grain pasta in addition to regular pasta. Rice grain noodles are made with polished rice flour and guar gum, which is as easy to paste and gluten-free as Bellamy's organic brown rice star noodles, but it is not as nutritious as brown rice products, let alone wheat products, except for vitamin B1, just to train chewing ability. The specifications of rice grain noodles and other grain pasta of Merrill Lynch are the same, all of them are 320g/box, no independent sachet packaging, intimate insufficient, it is recommended to store in a sealed box after opening and eat as soon as possible, the price is 38 yuan/box.
Like Rapunzel's Semola range, Merrill Lynch pasta is made from durum flour and has a high protein content, but it does not have whole wheat and speer products, and it is not the best overall nutrition, and it also contains a small amount of sugar. Compared with Rapunzel, Merrill Lynch is more suitable for infants and young children, which also reflects Merrill Lynch's professional quality. There are many small particle faces, such as star noodles, circle noodles, love noodles, square noodles, etc., which are more grainy than rice noodles, but they are small enough to exercise their swallowing ability for babies who are teething late. Moreover, Merrill Lynch's small grain noodles are very easy to cook, and they can be cooked after boiling water for 2-3 minutes.
When your baby is about 10 months old, or when 4-6 baby teeth erupt, you can try slightly larger shell and spiral pasta. Although the cooking time is slightly longer than that of small grain noodles, it is very suitable for babies who have a strong desire to eat independently. There are two specifications: 320g/box and 280g/box, and the price is about the same as that of small granules.
Although Merrill Lynch has a flagship store on the e-commerce platform, noodle products still need to go through customs, and some of them can only be purchased on behalf of others, and the purchase channels are not smooth, which also makes Merrill Lynch pasta tepid in China and unable to compete with Rapunzel.