Baby food jar label

Baby Shower Baby Food Jar Label

Sold in quantities of six. Labels are self-adhesive and pre-cut.

Approximate size of each label is 1 1/4" High x 7 1/4” Wide.

The fit of the label will vary based on the brand of baby food. Please verify that these will fit the jar that you are using. The baby food jars that we have tested are:

Gerber 4oz
Beechnut 4oz

If you are using a different brand it is very important that you check the size before ordering as we do not guarantee our labels will fit. If you need the size adjusted just let us know the measurements you need in the “special requests” section above.

Please note that increasing the size of the label may change the quantity per order. For example, increasing the height of the label to 2” will change the quantity to four per order.

Baby food jars are NOT included.

ORDERING PROCESS:

Choose the Material you would like: We offer matte or gloss labels.

Gender: Tell us the gender of the baby (unknown is an option). This information is needed for the Nutritional Facts section of the label.

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Choose the Quantity: Each quantity of 1 equals 6 baby food jar labels. Example - Enter 2 and you will receive 12 labels.

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Learning to read baby food labels

Reviewer Kovtun Tatiana Anatolievna September 15, 2021

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What does the average shopper pay attention to when choosing a product in a store? For the price, brand awareness, well, even for the expiration date, if you remember. The choice of a particular product takes a matter of seconds. Do you see that woman who is thoughtfully studying the label? Be sure: this is a mother who knows exactly what should and should not be in a jar of baby food. You give instructions on how to read the labels correctly!

"Free of preservatives, artificial additives, colors and flavors"

All of the above is forbidden to be used in the production of children's food, since it not only irritates the digestive tract, but can also cause allergic reactions.

Non-GMO

Despite the fact that scientists have not yet identified the negative effects of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) on health, their long-term impact is not yet fully understood. That is why they do not yet have a place in children's products.

“Fortified with vitamins and minerals”

This is not required, but highly desirable. Why? For example, vitamin C, like most other vitamins, is very unstable and is destroyed during the storage and processing of vegetables and fruits. Therefore, manufacturers of baby food additionally enrich their products with this useful vitamin. A similar story happens with other irreplaceable components - for example, with iron. Until the introduction of complementary foods, the baby for the most part uses the reserves of iron, which he received in the womb. That is why, when choosing dry cereals for children, it is necessary to give preference to their additional enrichment with this essential nutrient.

"Starch-free puree"

Starch is added in order to achieve the optimal consistency of the product. By itself, it is not harmful, but for the first feeding, baby food with starch is not recommended - why does the baby need extra "empty" ingredients?

Clarified juice

These juices, as a rule, appear first in the baby's diet. They do not contain pulp, which means that there are fewer plant fibers in them. By the way, juices with pulp are also useful - and their turn will come, because they will help regulate the functioning of the intestines of the crumbs.

"Homogenised"

This terrible word means only the degree of grinding of the product, its uniformity without lumps and flakes. Homogenized puree is ideal for babies at the stage of the first weaning.

"Contains prebiotics"

Such an inscription can most often be seen on children's cereals, as well as on children's dairy products. This is a great sign.

Prebiotics are carbohydrates that "good" bacteria feed on. They can be found in a class of common foods such as bananas, artichokes, asparagus, corn, chicory. Prebiotics improve the intestinal microflora.

"Contains probiotics"

Can be found on dairy products. Found? Very good. Probiotics are beneficial bacteria. Most often, lactobacilli and bifidobacteria are used in baby food - they contribute to comfortable digestion.

A foreign-made product must have a sticker in Russian and the coordinates of the supplier in Russia. If there is none, it means that the product most likely entered the market illegally and may be of poor quality.

We all know that there should not be any E in baby food, however, among the codes with the E index there are designations for substances of natural origin:

• E101 - vitamin B2, which is important for metabolic processes;
• E160a - carotene, a natural dye necessary for growth;
• E300 - vitamin C, which protects the body from the harmful effects of the environment;
• E440 - pectin for proper digestion.

As you can see, reading a baby food label correctly is a whole science. But you have embarked on the path of mastering it - and that's great!

Reviewer Kovtun Tatiana Anatolievna

Scientific adviser of PROGRESS JSC, candidate of medical sciences

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Baby food: reading labels

What do the frightening inscriptions "preservative E such" and "dye E such" mean, how juice differs from nectar - these and other useful data that can be obtained by reading the inscriptions in small letters on food jars.

Nowadays, almost every self-respecting manufacturer of something has a line of children's products. Of course, they are positioned as the most natural, healthy, environmentally friendly and hypoallergenic. In this way, absolutely everything “childish” is advertised, from cottage cheese and cookies to washing powders and cotton swabs. Parents need to be very careful not to fall for tricky marketing moves and advertising. Let's look at some of the subtleties using the example of baby food for complementary foods.

I don't want to start a long and pointless discussion about "tins and boxes vs homemade". There is no doubt, it is unlikely that someone will refuse to feed the baby with vegetables from the grandmother's garden, farm dairy products and meat from cows grown in protected conditions, but not everyone has the opportunity (and means) to approach the issue of nutrition so thoroughly. It is possible that sometimes you have to buy a jar of mashed potatoes or a bag of baby yogurt for your baby in the store. It’s great if, for example, children’s kefir consists of milk and fermented milk starter, and vegetable puree consists exclusively of vegetables and water. This is the best option. However, quite often on a jar or box there can be frightening inscriptions “preservative E such” and “dye E such”.

You shouldn't be so scared right away. According to the accepted nomenclature, the letter E denotes any food additives, and the serial number indicates the type of additive. So, E 100-199 are dyes, E 200-299 are preservatives, E 600-699 are flavors and flavors, etc.

By definition, food additives are substances that are added for one purpose or another to food products, i.e. this is not only artificially synthesized additives, but also natural substances (for example, curcumin and chlorophyll). The most common soda, acetic acid, pectin are also food additives and are designated according to this nomenclature E500, E260 and E440. Ethanol, by the way, is prohibited in Russia as a food additive E1510.

The main document regulating the production and sale of baby food in Russia is Technical Regulations of the Customs Union No. 021/2011 , which we will refer to as TR. The document is open and everyone can study it, but I would like to dwell on a few points that usually worry parents:

• ) raw materials containing GMOs.

In principle, the law is fine, except for the recent scandals with a well-known foreign manufacturer of baby food caught using GM soybeans and corn. The issue of expertise and fines for the use of GM raw materials secretly remains open. That is, an examination is carried out, fines are paid, but it is probably impossible to give a 100% guarantee of non-use of GM raw materials.

• In the production of food products for baby food, it is not allowed to use food (food) raw materials obtained with the use of pesticides.

Determining the content of pesticides is much easier technically and cheaper than the examination for GMOs. We can speak quite confidently about the absence of pesticides in baby food.

• In the production (manufacturing) of food products for baby food for children of all age groups, in order to give a specific aroma and taste, it is allowed to use only natural food flavors (flavoring substances) and for children older than 4 months - also vanillin.

Great, with the proviso that, of course, you should not start giving vanillin directly at 4 months.

It is also forbidden to use artificial dyes in baby food (for example, the permitted dye E 160a is ordinary carotene, a pigment that gives a yellow-orange color to carrots and is a provitamin of vitamin A), and it is allowed to use E300 as preservatives in canned baby food - ascorbic acid, also known as vitamin C or citric acid E330. There is a rumor about the latter on the network that it is a carcinogen. Comrades! This is a myth, a reprint of the so-called Villejuive list - either a scientific error or a hoax.

And one more little trick of the manufacturers. It is quite possible that a food additive whose name is well-known to the consumer, for example, the same ascorbic acid, will be called an ordinary word, but the now unpopular sodium nitrite will be hidden behind the designation E250. However, this is more likely to apply to "adult" products - the use of E250 in baby food is prohibited.

Canned baby food, as you know, is divided into several stages according to the age of the child. Long shelf life is provided by instant pasteurization (rather than preservatives). Often the contents of the jars are additionally fortified. How much this is necessary is a separate question, but it must be borne in mind that the manufacturer must indicate this information on the label.

As mentioned above, industrial baby food does not use artificial flavors, colors and preservatives, and the raw materials used are subject to fairly strict control. However, "superfluous", more precisely, additives not always requested by the consumer, are found quite often. All of them should be indicated on the label, which should be studied very carefully, surprises are possible. The penalty for a false label is very high, so important information is indicated, but in much the same way as consumer loans with wild interest - small letters on a bright background.

So, what else, besides the ingredients promised in large print, can be found in the selected jar?

Modified starch. The main horror film for parents who studied chemistry poorly. He is considered genetically modified and is amazed at the frank cynicism of the producers. Of course, this is nonsense. Starch is a substance, not an organism, and by definition there are no genes in it. Modification of starch consists in changing its properties, for example, increasing the viscosity. It does no harm to the child.

Vegetable protein. This word hides ordinary soy, that is, soy protein. Do you need it? Decide for yourself. By the way, unlike soy protein isolate and concentrate, the use of soy flour in baby food is prohibited.

Vitamin complex. Surely, many children from large cities have hypovitaminosis and additional vitamins will not hurt. However, some vitamins are often strong allergens. Parents of allergic people are better off choosing a jar without them.

In addition, approved additives may be present in canned food - milk powder, rice flour, salt, white pepper, vegetable oil, lemon juice, etc. . So if you do not want them to get into your baby's body ahead of time, study the label especially closely. It's generally useful.

Thus, a very well-known domestic manufacturer of baby food has launched two types of baby jars on the market - canned meat and vegetable and vegetable and meat. In the first case, the meat content is 40%, in the second - 10%. As they say, feel the difference. And all the words are rearranged. This is certainly not an outright scam. Yes, a little trick.

There are a lot of instant baby cereals: welling (milk formula with the addition of cereal flour), dairy-free or milk cereals, gluten-free cereals, mono- or multi-component cereals, as well as therapeutic and prophylactic cereals (containing pre- and / or probiotics). Unlike adult cereal cereals, such cereals do not need to be boiled, it is enough to dilute them with hot water. Milk cereals may contain skimmed milk powder, whole milk and whey, or an artificial mixture. Sometimes it happens that advertising speaks of a mixture in the composition of porridge, but in reality it turns out that this is powdered milk. So if the question of the presence of a mixture or powdered milk in the composition of porridge is fundamental for you, carefully study the composition of the product.

In addition, dry porridge may contain a large amount of sugar. Now this is not very welcomed by pediatricians, however, the TR does not prohibit the use of sugar in children's cereals, limiting its amount to 25% of the volume of the finished product. Of course, no manufacturer in their right mind would pour so much sugar into dry porridge, but the presence of sugar and the percentage of its content may be a surprise to the consumer.

The main difference between children's and adult dairy products is the raw material used. For the manufacture of adult kefir, cottage cheese or yogurt, milk of the first grade is used, and for children - the highest. The microbial count (simplistically, the number of live microorganisms in a product) for children's products is five times lower than for adults. For the manufacture of adult cottage cheese, both sterilized and pasteurized milk can be used, for children - only sterilized.

Vitamins are often added to baby milk, this should also be taken into account if the child is prone to allergies.

A few years ago, only the children's dairy product line was guaranteed not to contain milk powder, but in 2008 Russia adopted a federal law obliging the manufacturer to indicate the content of milk powder in the product. In this regard, many manufacturers have appeared, representing both children's and adult products without milk powder and with a short shelf life. The buyer will vote in rubles.

The TR provides the following definition of "drinking water for baby food - drinking water intended for drinking by children, cooking and reconstitution of dry food for children at home. "

Notice how vague the wording is. It does not specify why this water is considered childish. The norms of mineralization, the content of bacteria and microorganisms are prescribed in the TR, but they are compared with the norms for baby food as such, and not with "adult" water. In general, I did not find any reliable information about the differences between children's water and adult water. Of course, by “adult” I don’t mean medicinal table water or tap water, but ordinary non-carbonated bottled water.

In short, an allergy sufferer's paradise. In general, it is not very clear how manufacturers manage to certify it as baby food. Even the most gentle options for baby cookies contain sugar, wheat starch, milk powder, baking powder, an egg or egg powder. Often there are flavors not listed on the label. Cookies are designed for children of different ages, but in any case, they should hardly get carried away by children under one year old.

In our childhood juices were often used as the first food. And now, many pediatricians of the old school are advised to give the child juice drop by drop as early as three months. Leaving aside the question of the appropriateness of such an action, let's look at what children's juice consists of and how it differs from an adult.

As with canned food, no artificial preservatives, flavors or flavor enhancers are allowed in baby juices. The words of the manufacturer about "special ecological zones in which apples for children's apple juice are grown" can hardly be believed. Maybe such zones exist in the West, but in Russia this is probably a trick of marketers. However, raw materials for children's juices are subject to very strict control. The TR establishes special requirements for children's juices compared to adults: they limit acidity and sugar content, prescribe a certain nutritional value and vitamin content.

Juice directly pressed from fruit is called "straight juice". If there is no such inscription, then the juice is restored from the concentrate. The label must also indicate whether the product is juice per se, nectar (juice content 40-50%), juice product (at least 10% juice) or fruit drink (made only from berries). This applies to both adults and children's juices.

Read the label very carefully here as well – under the big inscription 100% there may be a small postscript “natural” or “healthy”. And this will not mean at all that juice is only beneficial. And the only thing is that nectar is disguised as 100% juice at best.

Children's products are indeed checked regularly. Obtaining a permit for the production and sale of baby food is much more difficult and expensive than for "adult" food. It is the companies engaged in the production of children's products that are more likely to do this, they take their toll with a large assortment and sales volume. For large producers or retailers, there is no point in bothering with special certification, for example, for juices; against the background of sales of other products, this will only slightly increase revenue.

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