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[quote=Anonymous]I really think the key is variety. We fed our kid some store bought baby food, but it was alongside lots of home cooked vegetables, tons of fruit, both store-bought and homemade breads and crackers, lean proteins, nuts and nut butters, etc. When the reports came out about heavy metals in baby foods, I felt panicky because like most people, we certainly used them. But the more I learned, the more I felt it was overblown. Should they do something about it? Yes. But unless you are feeding your kid nothing but store-bought sweet potato puree, there isn't much danger. And you should be doing that anyway!

For us, a typical day of food for our baby was maybe one or a half container of store-bought puree, then a couple servings of homemade veggies (say, corn and green beans), an egg, some nut butter or jam on a slice of homemade bread, and maybe yogurt with fruit. If that's how you're using these purees, I can't imagine your kid could ever consume enough of those heavy metals for it to matter. If I were in the baby phase still, I would seek out the store bought items with the lowest reported levels of heavy metals, and probably stay away from ingredients most likely to contain them (sweet potatoes and carrots, which are actually incredibly easy to prepare at home anyway). And then just use judiciously.

Now my kid is 3 and we still use those puree packets occasionally for on-the-go, but usually just the unsweetened apple and pear ones. I'm not stressed. We're all consuming chemicals and heavy metals in our food, lamentably. But it's not the terrible urgent problem people make it out to be.[/quote]

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