Earth balance baby food

Is Happy BABY organic baby food safe?

Nurture, Inc. submitted these test results to the Subcommittee: (2)

Inorganic Arsenic:

• Up to 180 ppb (variation: Apple & Broccoli Puffs)
• Up to 160 ppb (variation: Strawberry & Beet Puffs)
• Up to 160 ppb (variation: Banana & Pumpkin Puffs)
• Up to 100 ppb (over 25% of Nurture baby products)

Mercury:

• Up to 10 ppb (variation: Brown Rice Cereal Canister)
• Up to 9.8 ppb (variation: Banana Sweet Potato)

Lead:

• Up to 641 ppb (variation: Blueberry Purple Carrot)
• Up to 560 ppb (variation: Multi-Grain Cereal Canister)
• Up to 10 ppb (variation: Nurture vegetables and rice products)

Cadmium:

• Up to 49 ppb (variation: Multi-Grain Cereal Canister)
• Up to 36 ppb (variation: Strawberry Raspberry)
• Up to 5 ppb (around 65% of Nurture products)

Gerber Products Company

Gerber only tests the heavy metal content of raw materials, not in the finished products. (2)

Mercury:

• No mercury test.

Inorganic Arsenic:

• Up to 90 ppb (rice flour, raw ingredient)

Lead:

• Up to 48 ppb (sweet potatoes, raw ingredient)

Cadmium:

• More than 5 ppb in carrots (75% of raw ingredients)
• Up to 87 ppb (carrots, raw ingredient)
• No cadmium test for other raw materials

Campbell Soup Company (Plum Organics) Results

The Subcommittee said that Campbell Soup Company refused to submit their internal standards or actual test results but insisted that their baby foods “meet criteria.” (2)

So, the Subcommittee released these test results for Plum Organics (variant: Just Sweet Potato) from the HBBF report: (1)

Mercury:

• Less than 0.142 ppb

Inorganic Arsenic:

• Up to 3.1 ppb

Lead:

• Up to 5.6 ppb

Cadmium:

• Up to 2. 3 ppb

Test results from Plum Organics were published in the new report by the Subcommittee. But these showed that the products have higher heavy metal content than those in the HBBF report: (1)(3)

• Arsenic: Over 200 ppb arsenic (all Plum’s Super Puff rice-based products)
• Lead: Over 5 ppb lead (54.5% of all Plum Organics products)
• Cadmium: Over 5 ppb cadmium (38.3% of all Plum Organics products)

Walmart Inc. (Parent’s Choice)

According to the Subcommittee, Walmart refused to submit internal standards or test results. The following are data from the HBBF report: (1)(2)

Inorganic Arsenic:

• Up to 108 ppb (variation: Organic Strawberry Rice Rusks)
• Up to 56.1 ppb (variation: Little Hearts Strawberry Yogurt Cereal Snack)

Mercury:

• Up to 2.05 ppb (variation: Organic Strawberry Rice Rusks)
• Up to 0.941 ppb (variation: Little Hearts Strawberry Yogurt Cereal Snack)

Lead:

• Up to 26. 9 ppb (variation: Organic Strawberry Rice Rusks)

• Up to 5.2 ppb (variation: Little Hearts Strawberry Yogurt Cereal Snack)

Cadmium:

• Up to 26.1 ppb (variation: Little Hearts Strawberry Yogurt Cereal Snack)
• Up to 2.4 ppb (variation: Organic Strawberry Rice Rusks)

Does Sprout Baby Food Contain Arsenic?

The company never responded to the Subcommittee. These test results for Organic Quinoa Puffs Baby Cereal Snack (variation: Apple Kale) are from the HBBF report: (1)(2)

Inorganic Arsenic:

• Up to 107 ppb

Mercury:

• Up to 1.31 ppb

Lead:

• Up to 39.3 ppb

Cadmium:

• Up to 41.5 ppb

Beech-Nut Nutrition Company (Beech-Nut)

Beech-Nut declared that all its ingredients passed internal standards. However, they had set much higher maximum limits than FDA standards for similar foods. So, these results still fail government regulations: (2)

Mercury:

• No mercury test.

Inorganic Arsenic:

• Up to 913.4 ppb (raw materials)
• More than 300 ppb (in additives or ingredients used in various products)

Lead:

• Up to 886.9 ppb (raw materials)

Cadmium:

• Up to 344.55 ppb (raw materials)

How Heavy Metals Get Into Food

Heavy metals can be found on the Earth’s surface. Still, the toxic chemicals in food may come from contaminated water or soil due to pesticides and other farming practices. (4)

Contamination may also be possible from tainted machinery or manufacturing processes used in making baby foods. (4)

Reducing Heavy Metals in Baby Food Products

Heavy metals, even in low concentrations, can negatively impact your baby’s brain development. So, Consumer Reports and the US PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) call for the Baby Food Safety Act of 2021 to be passed into law. (11)

Under this law, the FDA needs to create and strictly implement baby food regulations with much lower maximum heavy metal limits than the current standards. (11)

It also requires baby food manufacturers to test both ingredients and finished products.These test results must be released to parents and regulatory agencies. (11)

Healthier Baby Food Products

The following baby food products may be healthier alternatives:

• Little Spoon (subscription-based)
• Yumi (subscription-based)
• Serenity Kids
• Little Journey Organics
• Once Upon A Farm

Preparing Healthier Alternatives At Home

You can prepare your baby’s food using these ingredients: (4)

• Quality meats, poultry, or fish
• Whole or puréed vegetables and fruits (avocados, apples, bananas, peaches, grapes, and strawberries)
• Organic eggs
• Bone broth
• Healthy fats (coconut oil, olive oil, or ghee)
• Raw yogurt
• Coconut yogurt
• Quinoa
• Oats
• Applesauce (unsweetened)

You can also do the following: (1)(4)

• Avoid using brown rice (higher levels of inorganic arsenic content than white rice)
• Sushi rice from the US or white basmati rice from California, India, and Pakistan can be healthier alternatives to brown rice.
• Feed your baby with carrots and sweet potatoes in moderation. These can have high levels of lead or cadmium but are important sources of vitamin A and other nutrients.
• Limit your baby’s intake of infant rice cereal (or other infant cereal products.)
• Limit packaged snacks and teething biscuits
• Prepare rice using larger amounts of water (6 to 10 parts water to 1 part rice). Drain afterward to help reduce levels of arsenic.
• Avoid processed fruit juices.
• Avoid chocolates
• Avoid high-mercury fish: bigeye tuna, king mackerel, shark, swordfish, and orange roughy.
• Test your drinking water for high arsenic levels.

REFERENCES

(1) https://www.healthybabyfood.org/sites/healthybabyfoods.org/files/2020-04/BabyFoodReport_ENGLISH_R6.pdf

(2) https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2021-02-04%20ECP%20Baby%20Food%20Staff%20Report.pdf

(3) https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats. oversight.house.gov/files/ECP%20Second%20Baby%20Food%20Report%209.29.21%20FINAL.pdf

(4) https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/heavy-metals-in-baby-food/

(5) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canadian-watchdog-warns-consumers-about-recalled-baby-food-1.636779

(6) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23570911/

(7) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4418502/

(8) https://www.fda.gov/food/metals-and-your-food/arsenic-food-and-dietary-supplements

(9) https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/hain-celestial-latest-baby-food-maker-sued-over-heavy-metals

(10) https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2021/03/04/603869.htm

(11) https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2021/06/09/beech-nut-baby-food-recall-2021-rice-cereal-arsenic/7621243002/

wu xing baby food system

my attention jumps like a flea from one topic to another - and today I was "carried" to chapters from one fundamental work on Chinese diet therapy.
Since I have been looking at this concept for more than a year, I naturally study nutrition. So it's no longer a secret for me that so many common diets are wrong - and even if they temporarily lead to the desired result, they generally upset the balance.

for example - for weight loss, many diets recommend raw vegetables and fruits, while they contain a large amount of moisture, which, in fact, leads to overweight in some cases.
Regarding the destructiveness of the so-called "children's" diets, with a lot of dairy products, fruit juices, citrus fruits and bananas, I am also aware.
But today, right in three places, the emphasis was on baby food.
times so - decided to share

Foods and herbs are classified in the wu xing system in character : cold, cool, hot, warm or neutral.
To taste : salty, sour, bitter, sweet or spicy (does not always match the actual taste of the product).
There are more characteristics, but for non-specialists they are redundant, so I will limit myself to these two points.

The nature of food affects the yin and yang of the body, cools the organic system or warms it.

Taste acts on organ systems, restoring or depressing them. Also, taste has an impact on the emotional component of our life (everyone is familiar with the desire for sweets in moments of imbalance, or cravings for alcohol / bitter taste / etc.). nine0004

Correct or incorrect consumption of products creates the prerequisites for various diseases - or cures.
Judging by how it is customary to feed children, since childhood we have been oppressing not only their health, but also their functionality in general.

According to Wu Xing theory, diseases (very rough and simplistic) are the result of a violation of the innate life force qi that accumulates in the kidneys (black) and acquired life force that acquires in the spleen (yellow). nine0003 Weak kidneys affect the weakening of the energy of movement (green color), empty movement, in turn, upsets the balance of cardiac activity (red color; the energy of the Spirit is concentrated in the heart; weak spirit = unlife). The task of the heart in the organic system is to monitor the balance of forces in the spleen (yellow) and in the lungs (white). But, since the heart is weakened, then its ability to influence the balance is also weakened. As you can see, everything is interconnected, the health of some organs directly depends on the health of others - and on the presence of vitality in general. nine0003 And this, I repeat, are healthy kidneys and spleen (digestive system).
That is, an excess of Cold disturbs the balance of the entire system.

So what are we seeing in baby food?

• Dairy products (children need milk!)


• Fruit juices (fresh is good!)


• citrus fruits (what a live vitamin C!)


• "delicious"?)


• buns/biscuits - wheat products


• sweets, which include cola and other sodas

let's look at at least a part:
1. Dairy products.
Since the vast majority buys products in the store, and not from under the familiar cow, goat or sheep ( is preferable for our band), it is Cold that we purchase.
Everything from where the water has been previously pumped out, where the water (the beginning and essence of life) is damaged in one way or another - is dead. nine0003 A 99% of store-bought milk is from the so-called reconstituted milk, i.e. from powder.
Yoghurts, curds, curds, various types of milk, sour cream, cream - everything is powdered, everything is dead, cold.
and we, feeding these children, consistently weaken their vitality - and, as can be seen from the scheme, stimulated by fears and tension! In the same topic and enuresis, as one might assume.
start feeding your baby with warm quality foods - and many health problems will simply disappear in a couple of weeks. Yes, and with the emotional state, too, there will be changes. nine0004

2. Fruit juices and raw food.
Since it is believed that some of the nutrients are lost during heat treatment, many people also strive to feed their children as "usefully" as possible. But small children do not have teeth and the children's digestive system is imperfect, children are not yet able to process solid or raw food on their own - while part of the food processing occurs by chewing, part in the stomach. And the ability of children to assimilate useful units from raw food is reduced - it is better to process it outside the body, cook and puree, albeit with the loss of "useful substances" - but creating the right quality and consistency. nine0003 The character of raw food is cold or cool, the taste of is usually sour.
The sour taste belongs to the Wood element, has a collecting and binding quality - that is, it retains fluids in the body. Excess disrupts digestion, destroys tooth enamel, causes disruption of the Earth's organs (stomach and spleen), increasing cravings for sweets.
It is unreasonable (with the term TCM) to feed small children with fruit juices, in particular apple or orange. They are too sweet and intense sweet taste creates, on the one hand, an undesirable addiction; on the other hand, it contributes to the appearance of dampness and weakening of the spleen.
( by the way - innate vital energy is stored in the kidneys, and that which is created during life and affects its quality and duration - in the spleen )

3. Citrus fruits
clearly moisturizing products - and we also consume we give them (and give them to children) in the winter, when "there are no vitamins." Not only do these products do not grow with us, therefore, they are not useful for us at all - we also consciously create an excess of it during the period of dampness (Cold, winter)! nine0004

As a result, instead of preventing colds, excessively wet food creates exactly the prerequisites for them - because moist food weakens the work of the heart, the heart cannot cope with the task of drying the lungs, mucus forms there - and hello, a cold with a wet cough and snot!
Decreased heat (yang) in the heart with a simultaneous excess of cold and moisture (yin) in the spleen and lungs means "weakening of digestion, mental alertness and ability to concentrate, as well as susceptibility to colds or chronic rhinitis. " nine0003 These are favorite troubles from kindergarten age! And the reason is "correctly" eating "healthy" foods:
citrus fruits, bananas, raw plant foods, cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese and sweets, including refined sugar and honey.

4. Chinese medicine wheat is regarded as cold and damp. In other words, this cereal is digested with more difficulty than, for example, rice, and food prepared on its basis often stagnates in the intestines and, accordingly, can damage the functions of the spleen and digestion. nine0004

5. Sweet taste - essentially has a harmonizing effect: gives vitality, soothes pain, regulates the entire body. Moisturizes, stores fat.
With an excessive abundance of sweet foods (especially in the everyday sense - chocolate, sugar, confectionery) can cause energy stagnation in the stomach and spleen. With the stagnation of pathogenic fluid, edema, the formation of tumors, asthma with a large amount of sputum discharge appear. Further, furunculosis, damage to the bladder and kidneys may appear; skin lesions. nine0003 Sweet tasting foods include : all kinds of animal and poultry meat, all kinds of cereals, seafood, milk and dairy products, almost all vegetables and fruits, honey, malt sugar.

From birth, our mothers, and many of us, depress the vital energy of children with improper nutrition: excessive moisture weakens innate energy, disrupts the digestive function, which reduces the system's ability to gain energy, to balance. Strong Earth (yellow) promotes the development of thinking, ra zoom - respectively, a weak one creates the prerequisites for passivity, a consumer way of thinking.

"So count!" (c)

summarizing, let me guess. what NOT to do about baby food
1. eat cold (literally), raw (fruit juices and vegetables) food. The temperature of the "introduced" product should be equalized with body temperature or increased.
it is more reasonable to stew vegetables, and to make decoctions and compotes from fruits and berries.
2. avoid wheat products (especially for young children) - bread, biscuits, other confectionery. nine0003 Increase consumption of millet, buckwheat or oatmeal instead. By the way, fried millet is a product that has a bitter taste and, accordingly, strengthens the heart!
3. Be wary of nuts, especially the ubiquitous peanuts, which increase Yin (moisture) in the body. Black sesame also contributes to the production of moisture.
4. With regard to ice cream, besides being too sweet (due to the presence of sugar), it also strongly contributes to the formation of dampness (eggs and cream) and damages the spleen (low temperature). nine0004

if you add something from your experience, or following the study of the traditions of proper nutrition - I will be grateful!

Children's and Diet Nutrition Center - Official website of UIA CDDP



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