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Avoid Conventional Baby Food

They have found many baby food brands containing hazardous levels of heavy metals in their products.

According to CNN: Arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury are in the World Health Organization’s top 10 chemicals of concern for infants and children. “Dangerous levels of toxic metals like arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury exist in baby foods at levels that exceed what experts and governing bodies say is permissible”

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Avoid Greenwashing Baby Food

In February 2022, Hain Celestial Group Inc., the maker of a variety of ❌ Earth’s Best organic infant formulas, was the latest company to be hit with a proposed class-action suit in a New York federal court, alleging it misleads parents into believing its premium baby foods are healthy, nutritious, and non-toxic when they actually contain undisclosed dangerous levels of lead and other toxic heavy metals. Read more here.

​Coincidently, before these lawsuits, in 2019, an organization called Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF) released a report on new tests of 168 baby foods for heavy metals.

13 baby formulas, including Earth’s Best Organic Sensitivity – DHR/ARA Infant Formula with Iron Organic Milk-Based Powder, were tested for arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury. All of them had detectable levels of the heavy metals; however, none of them had levels that exceeded European levels of lead and cadmium in baby food and proposed levels of arsenic by the FDA.  The Earth’s Best Formula did not have the highest levels of heavy metals.  You can see the report here.

 

Conclusion

While it is unacceptable that no one is regulating this, it is up to us to educate ourselves and research.

⭐ In California there is a law that protects consumers from higher levels of heavy metals in any products sold in the state. I can review the products and see if they carry the heavy metals warning.

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​The Best and Safest Organic Baby Food

 

🌿 On this page I listed the safest brands on the market that reach my criteria:

  • USDA Certified organic: that means made with at least 95% organic ingredients and pesticides and GMOs are not allowed

  • California Proposition 65 warning-free

  • Natural flavors-free: undisclosed mix of ingredients

  • Rice-free: because it contains arsenic

  • Artificial Vitamins-free

  • Citric Acid-free

  • ✅ Internal Testing & 3rd Party Tested for Heavy Metals

  • ✅ Clean Label Project Purity Award & Pesticide Free Award

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A baby’s first foods should be nutrient-focused and include healthy fats, quality meats, and vegetables. Fat is essential for nutrient absorption, brain development, hormone regulation, and building the immune system. Meat is not only totally digestible for babies, but it is a far more efficient source of protein than any other food we eat. Prioritizing meat, fat, and vegetables over sugary fruits, beans, and grains will help your baby’s energy and mood.

Healthier babies will sleep better through the night, rarely cry, hardly will ever get sick, will eat anything, and will have healthy consistent stools.

That’s why is important how we feed them, to grow up happy, healthy, and strong!

Good quality fats such as avocado and olive oil: Your baby needs 30g of fat per day! This supports brain development, and hormone regulation and builds the immune system. Fat is also needed for your baby’s digestive system to absorb fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K.

Fats are satiating foods, which means your baby will feel full longer and get a longer, higher-quality night’s sleep.

Veggie: Choosing veggies, meat, and fat over fruit purees means more balanced nutrition and fewer blood sugar crashes.

Your baby naturally enjoys sweeter foods, but the high sugar content in fruit can be excessive for their tiny bodies.

Vegetables contain the same important vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and fiber as fruits and then some!

Choosing veggies, meat, and fat over fruit purees means more balanced nutrition and fewer blood sugar crashes.

Every bite counts. Choose foods that are easy to absorb and nutrient-dense. Meat is high in protein, zinc, iron, and B vitamins.

Your baby’s stomach contains all the enzymes necessary to digest meat.

Amino acids in animal protein are better absorbed than protein from vegetables.

 

Here is my top brand recommendation: 

 

✅ Serenity Kids since they are very strict with the heavy metal testing, independently tested by Clean Label Project

🌿USDA Certified Organic Certification, it has both the  “Clean Label Project Purity Award & Pesticed Free Awards”

  • Internal Testing & 3rd Party Tested for Heavy Metals

  • Clean Label Project Purity Award 

  • Clean Label Project Pesticide Free Award

 

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