Choices in frozen organic baby food

When it comes to feeding your baby, the best and most healthy start is breastfeeding. Once you start feeding your baby solid foods the healthiest choice is frozen organic baby food. Why?

• Organic food is the best possible choice for little ones. Their bodies are much smaller, less developed, and less immune to harmful chemicals and pesticides than adult bodies. Pesticides in non-organics have a stronger affect on a baby than you. For more information on why babies need organics read HAPPYBABY The Organic Guide to Baby’s First 24 Months.
• Frozen veggies and fruits retain more nutrients than canned or jarred fruits and veggies and frozen baby food companies usually have proper cooking techniques, such as steaming not boiling their foods.
• Many jarred baby food, even organic brands have too much sugar and not enough healthy nutrients. A recent study showed that many jarred baby foods on the market contain trans fat and can be as much as 29 percent sugar AND have more sodium than your baby should have.
• Frozen baby food tastes better – if you’ve ever tasted the difference between a common jar of baby food and a freshly frozen cube of baby food, you’ll know what I mean. If you haven’t sampled your baby’s food, maybe you should.

My first suggestion for organic baby food is to make it yourself. It’s super easy, it’s cost effective, and if you like you can even invest in a machine like the Beaba Babycook that can help you to make healthy and fast homemade baby food even faster. That said, if you’re not going to make homemade baby food, you should buy frozen organic. You’ve got plenty of healthy choices too. Following is a sample of some of the organic frozen baby food products available.

Jack’s Harvest: baby food that’s certified 100% organic and made with seasonal fresh choices. Prepared in small batches and gently cooked and leftover scraps are composted. Jack’s Harvest baby food is frozen in adorable heart-shaped cubes perfectly portioned to 1 oz. for So Smooth or 3 oz. for A Little Lumpy. 12 oz. of the flavor are then carefully packaged in a tamper resistant resealable bag. Plenty of flavors to choose from like butternut squash-ed apples with a smidge of sage, papplesauce with a dash of cinnamon, more peas, please with a hint of mint, and more.

HAPPYBABY: The HAPPYBABY food line offers USDA certified organic frozen baby food (some with DHA included) such as Mama Grain, a mixture of bananas, black beans, and quinoa. Other very cool flavors include Smarter Squash, Grrreat Greens (pears, spinach, and mango), and more. HAPPYBABY is also committed to social and eco-change such as sustainable agriculture and easy to recycle packaging. Plus the company supports Project Peanut Butter, a non-profit that provides food for starving children in Malawi.

Yummy Spoonfuls makes 100% USDA certified organic baby food, with zero chemical pesticides, nitrates, or growth hormones. No artificial additives or processing chemicals are used and foods are never heat treated so they retain their nutrients. Yummy Spoonfuls comes in a multitude of flavors and stages; Creamy Yummy, Mushy Yummy, and Chunky Yummy.

Tastybaby Frozen Organic Baby Food is 100% certified frozen organic baby food, gluten-free and packed with vitamins & nutrients due their blast-freezing process.  Tastybaby packages their food in BPA-free / recyclable containers & biodegradable cardboard printed with vegetable-based inks. Many flavors and stages offered.

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