. Increasing parental reliance on commercially marketed complementary foods in the UK has potential implications for totalenergy and fat intake and taste acquisition which may impact negatively on the risk of chronic non-communicable disease. The primaryobjective of this study is to examine nutritive values of complementary infant foods on the UK market in order to ascertain their suitabilityrelative to dietary guidelines for the 6 to 9-month age group. Quantitative analyses of four popular brands currently on sale in the UK wereconducted including mineral analysis which is the subject of this paper.Meat and vegetable-based samples of same recipes of the four brands of infant food were analysed. Following microwave digestionof food samples, minerals were quantitatively measured in triplicate by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy(ICP-OES).The preliminary results presented as per 100g (Table 1) show considerable variability between samples with respect to mineral content.Vegetable-based recipes contained signi cantly more Ca than meat-based varieties ( P = 0.01).