Is store bought baby food safe yet?

[Anonymous]

OP, what led you to believe that making your own food would be safer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, what led you to believe that making your own food would be safer?

No rice or root vegetables added as fillers and stabilizers. Rice flour, potato starch and by products are added to pretty much every baby food and contain heavy metals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, what led you to believe that making your own food would be safer?

No rice or root vegetables added as fillers and stabilizers. Rice flour, potato starch and by products are added to pretty much every baby food and contain heavy metals.

No, they aren't. Look at the back.

[Anonymous]

There are also things you shouldn't make yourself, like spinach and beets. Some have a nitrate problem that baby food companies can source around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, what led you to believe that making your own food would be safer?

No rice or root vegetables added as fillers and stabilizers. Rice flour, potato starch and by products are added to pretty much every baby food and contain heavy metals.

No, they aren't. Look at the back.

I have - read the ingredients.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are also things you shouldn't make yourself, like spinach and beets. Some have a nitrate problem that baby food companies can source around.

Why shouldn’t you make purées spinach? Beets are just messy and a root vegetable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are also things you shouldn't make yourself, like spinach and beets. Some have a nitrate problem that baby food companies can source around.

Why shouldn’t you make purées spinach? Beets are just messy and a root vegetable.

NP
Maybe because Some have a nitrate problem that baby food companies can source around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, what led you to believe that making your own food would be safer?

No rice or root vegetables added as fillers and stabilizers. Rice flour, potato starch and by products are added to pretty much every baby food and contain heavy metals.

No, they aren't. Look at the back.

I have - read the ingredients.

I have as well. There are plenty of baby foods where the only ingredient are things like peas and of butternut squash. The idea that all baby foods have carrots or rice is nonsense. Just be a careful consumer, and vary things and store bought baby food is 100% fine. My own pediatrician actually handed me a flyer that warned against certain home made baby foods (because if you don't know what you're doing, home canning can be dangerous).

[Anonymous]

Google baby led weaning. It's absolutely so much easier than making baby food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are also things you shouldn't make yourself, like spinach and beets. Some have a nitrate problem that baby food companies can source around.

Why shouldn’t you make purées spinach? Beets are just messy and a root vegetable.

NP
Maybe because Some have a nitrate problem that baby food companies can source around.

So, wait... all spinach leaves have nitrate?

[Anonymous]

OP here - my plan is to mash up and serve what we are having but baby is only 6 months old and we are still in food introduction mode - same food over three days before adding a new one. So for ease I would love to be able to buy a jar of peas or squash or whatever and do the three days that way. But I hate the idea of serving something I know tested to have metals in it.

Ugh! Why?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - my plan is to mash up and serve what we are having but baby is only 6 months old and we are still in food introduction mode - same food over three days before adding a new one. So for ease I would love to be able to buy a jar of peas or squash or whatever and do the three days that way. But I hate the idea of serving something I know tested to have metals in it.

Ugh! Why?!

You don’t do the new-food-every-three-days thing anymore! Pediatricians found it was useless as allergies show up more slowly than three days. The big push now is to introduce as many possible allergens early on. This is so different than when my 7.5 yr old was a baby.

We have my new baby oatmeal and peanut butter for her first meal. Strawberry sauce for her second meal. On her third day she had pineapple and peas.

Just blend up whatever the kids are eating. Nothing is off limits except honey. Babies still can’t have honey until they’re one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are also things you shouldn't make yourself, like spinach and beets. Some have a nitrate problem that baby food companies can source around.

Why shouldn’t you make purées spinach? Beets are just messy and a root vegetable.

NP
Maybe because Some have a nitrate problem that baby food companies can source around.

So, wait... all spinach leaves have nitrate?

Some do based on historical fertilizer use, but baby food companies know about this and can correct for it with sourcing and processing. It was on the sheet I was given by my pediatrician when we started solids. If you're not careful it can cause a form of anemia.

Seriously if you look at sources from pediatric nutritionists they tell you jarred baby food as fine, as long as you don't lean into the blends that contain carrots and rice. It's fine OP.

If you read articles that crunch the data you'll find you should avoid certain foods (like rice puffs) but there is no reason to avoid all baby food.

https://emilyoster.substack.com/p/toxic-baby-metals

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - my plan is to mash up and serve what we are having but baby is only 6 months old and we are still in food introduction mode - same food over three days before adding a new one. So for ease I would love to be able to buy a jar of peas or squash or whatever and do the three days that way. But I hate the idea of serving something I know tested to have metals in it.

Ugh! Why?!

You don’t do the new-food-every-three-days thing anymore! Pediatricians found it was useless as allergies show up more slowly than three days. The big push now is to introduce as many possible allergens early on. This is so different than when my 7.5 yr old was a baby.

We have my new baby oatmeal and peanut butter for her first meal. Strawberry sauce for her second meal. On her third day she had pineapple and peas.

Just blend up whatever the kids are eating. Nothing is off limits except honey. Babies still can’t have honey until they’re one.

That would be amazing. My pediatrician didn't say anything about it. If I can do a New food every day life is so much easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - my plan is to mash up and serve what we are having but baby is only 6 months old and we are still in food introduction mode - same food over three days before adding a new one. So for ease I would love to be able to buy a jar of peas or squash or whatever and do the three days that way. But I hate the idea of serving something I know tested to have metals in it.

Ugh! Why?!

You don’t do the new-food-every-three-days thing anymore! Pediatricians found it was useless as allergies show up more slowly than three days. The big push now is to introduce as many possible allergens early on. This is so different than when my 7.5 yr old was a baby.

We have my new baby oatmeal and peanut butter for her first meal. Strawberry sauce for her second meal. On her third day she had pineapple and peas.

Just blend up whatever the kids are eating. Nothing is off limits except honey. Babies still can’t have honey until they’re one.

That would be amazing. My pediatrician didn't say anything about it. If I can do a New food every day life is so much easier.

NP here. Yes, it is so much easier! I was told to do the three day thing with my oldest and given a sheet of foods not to give him (all berries, eggs, dairy, etc). Pediatrician told us with 2nd kid to feed everything, no tnreeday-Crap and include peanuts, berries - anything that might cause allergies later. But yeah, no honey.