Why do I have to use the Rice cereal first and not the other varieties?

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A rice-based infant cereal has been a long-standing tradition as one of the first foods of an infant’s diet. Its smooth texture and mild flavour make it stage and age appropriate and therefore suitable for an infant’s introduction to solids before a diverse and complex range of foods are introduced later in their diet

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