Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cereo
My research hasn't turned up any reliable source evidence that Cereo was in fact the "first baby food", first "manufactured" baby food, first baby food with a "brand name" or any other notable "first". Wikipedia's Baby food#History|article doesn't list it, http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodbaby.html this page doesn't list it, it's not mentioned in http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309091500&page=42 this "History of the Development of Infant Formulas," or http://www.babybottle-museum.co.uk/food_ad.htm here. The "Baby Food" article in ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America'' does not mention it, instead crediting Henri Nestlé with creating "the first artificial infant food". Others credit Justus von Liebig's "Liebig’s food for infants" as the first commercially produced baby food. In summary, we have zero reliable source evidence for the article's claim. Our sole source is one gramatically incorrect sentence on a relators website, which in fact does not even support the article's claim. "Macy Deming manufactured first baby food, Cereo, here." Perhaps that was meant to read "Macy Deming manufactured ''her'' first baby food, Cereo, here." In any case the source is miles away from meeting , and the reliable sources we do have refute the claim
— User:Jfire, 17:34, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)