Organic vegan baby food

Vegan Baby-Food Brands and Products for the Little Ones

When deciding what to feed your baby, your first concern is probably how to make sure they’re getting the nutrients that they need. Luckily, a vibrant vegan diet full of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats, and plant proteins can provide your baby with everything they need to grow up healthy and strong. According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, “A well-planned … vegan diet can meet the nutrient needs of people from all stages of life, including those going through pregnancy and lactation, childhood and participating in competitive sports.” Of course, you should always consult with your health-care provider when deciding how to feed your child, but that should always be the case, whether or not your child is vegan.

To help you find healthful nutrition for your child, we’ve compiled a list of vegan baby foods for the first stages of life:

Features: Its products are vegan, organic, gluten-free, non-GMO, BPA-free, and kosher. Every food item on the website includes a loud and proud “vegan” label.

Jennifer Garner’s baby-food company is particularly noteworthy. No, not just because it’s that Jennifer Garner. The brand offers fruits and veggies as well as other foods, such as Just Right Porridge and Caroberry Mousse—and of course, they’re dairy-free.

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Features: It offers different formula options for your baby’s various growth stages.

This company has a wide range of products, including formulas, toddler foods, kids’ foods, personal-care items, and frozen foods.

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Features: Its baby foods are available in 10 varieties, so your little monster is sure to find a favorite.

Pumpkin Tree’s line of baby foods, Peter Rabbit Organics, offers handy, BPA-free pouches filled with nothing but organic fruits and vegetables.

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These products are easy to find at stores such as Babies “R” Us, Target, and Walgreens as well as through Amazon.

This company uses organic fruits and vegetables. The formulas are simple and pure, often just one fruit, one vegetable, and water.

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Features: This company has separate product lines for mothers, babies, toddlers, and kids.

It also offers many vegan snacks, such as Sweet Potato + Rosemary Chickpea Straws, Gentle Teething Wafers, and Fruit & Oat Bars. Not all products are vegan, so check the ingredients to make sure that the flavor doesn’t contain anything animal-derived.

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Features: Many products provide extra vitamins, such as vitamin D from organic cremini mushrooms, B₁₂, and more.

Its cereals, veggie Power Blends, and Quinoa Squares are all vegan and created for different age groups.

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Features: Its products are available at most local grocery stores, at Walmart, and through Amazon.

This brand focuses on non-GMO fruits and vegetables. Its product line includes cereals as well as baby food jars, pouches, and snacks.

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We do not need meat or dairy “products” to thrive, and cows produce milk for the same reason that humans do: to nurture their young. Life is better for everyone when we leave animal-derived foods off our—and our children’s—plates.

Avoid foods that support exploitation, and set an example of compassion. Read more about raising vegan children.

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8 Vegan Baby Foods to Nurture Your Little Ones | Parents

Are you a busy parent looking for a simple way to get your baby the nutrition that he or she needs?

We’ve compiled a list of plant-based baby foods for the first stages of life, highlighting our favorite aspects of each company.

Features: Its products are vegan, organic, gluten-free, non-GMO, BPA-free, and kosher. Every food item on the website includes a loud and proud “vegan” label.

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Features: It offers different formula options for your baby’s various growth stages.

This company has a wide range of products, including formulas, toddler foods, kids’ foods, personal-care items, and frozen foods.

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Features: Its baby foods are available in 10 varieties, so your child is sure to find a favorite.

Pumpkin Tree’s line of baby foods, Peter Rabbit Organics, offers handy, BPA-free pouches filled with nothing but organic fruits and vegetables.

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These products are easy to find at stores such as Target, and Walgreens as well as through Amazon.

This company uses organic fruits and vegetables. The formulas are simple and pure, often just one fruit, one vegetable, and water.

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Features: This company has separate product lines for mothers, babies, toddlers, and kids.

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Features: Each meal contains organic ingredients and is free of gluten and the Big 8 allergens.

Raised Real uses its meal plan delivery service to help expand your little one’s palate, train their taste buds, and encourage a healthy relationship with greens. With over 20 different vegan meals to choose from, you’ll definitely find something that’s perfect for your child.

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Features: Many products provide extra vitamins, such as vitamin D from organic crimini mushrooms, B₁₂, and more.

Its cereals, veggie Power Blends, and Quinoa Squares are all vegan and created for different age groups.

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Features: Its products are available at most local grocery stores, at Walmart, and through Amazon.

This brand focuses on non-GMO fruits and vegetables. Its product line includes cereals as well as baby food jars, pouches, and snacks.

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Avoid foods that support exploitation, and set an example of compassion.

Wines: natural, organic, biodynamic, vegan

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Natural, organic, biodynamic, even vegan - there are many different "green" trends in the world of winemaking. What you need to know when choosing such wines in the store.

Where does all the trouble come from?

Viticulture has been around for thousands of years, and for almost all of that time it has done just fine without chemical fertilizers. But in the 19th century, the irreparable happened: several pests were brought from the United States to Europe along with planting material, to which the vines of the European genus Vitis Vinifera turned out to be unstable (namely, most of the noble grape varieties from which wine is made belong to this genus).

Aphid killer

The main problem of viticulture is phylloxera, an aphid that parasitizes in the roots of vines and massively kills plants. The phylloxera epidemic raged around the world for many decades, and a cure could not be found for a long time. In the end, the only solution was to graft all Vitis Vinifera vines in the world onto phylloxera-resistant stocks of American origin (today up to 99% of all vineyards in the world are grafted).

Dangerous mushrooms

Many people know that phylloxera "came" from America, but where did the spread of two fungal diseases around the world - oidium and mildew, which to this day are a serious problem for winegrowers in most countries and regions, begin? There is no answer to this question yet, and grape producers, even in the most ecologically clean areas, constantly monitor the situation with mold.

New Enemies

In addition to the "old" sores, due to global warming, new enemies constantly appear in the vineyards: various bugs and flies that migrate to Europe from Asia, such as Drosophila Suzukii or Popillia Japonica.

The key question for today is whether to use chemical preparations against them or somehow manage with "natural" means?

Organic viticulture and winemaking

To receive official certification, the winery must comply with the requirements of the certifying organization. There are many of them in different countries (Ecocert, BIOS, ULSAE, etc.), the rules are different for everyone, but in general they recommend minimizing or completely eliminating the use of artificial chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides.

Organists use drugs derived from animal or plant substances, but these are usually less effective than today's high-precision chemical "drugs", so treatments have to be done more frequently, making production more expensive.

Classics vs organists

In the wine industry, "environmental friendliness" and the feasibility of organic winemaking are now in question. Proponents of "normal" classical viticulture, who use chemicals when there is a real threat, have many arguments against organists. But fans of organics raise issues of a different kind - the ethical use of resources, environmental protection and the purity of the biochemical composition of soils.

The Organic label or the Ecocert logo on a wine label is no guarantee that the wine will taste better.

Biodynamics

Since the end of the 19th century, winegrowers have used "Bordeaux mixture" and sulfur to combat mold. As the pharmaceutical industry flourished in the 1920s, more effective chemical defenses emerged. However, both were damaging to soils, and about 50 years ago, winemakers in such classic regions as Burgundy and the Loire Valley suddenly realized: “Our great ancient terroirs are stifled. Soils no longer breathe. They have no life left."

Rebirth cycle

The early activists of a movement called biodynamics made the teachings of the Austrian occult philosopher Rudolf Steiner their bible. They revive soils in accordance with the life cycles of the earth and the lunar calendar. They do not use chemistry, except for copper and sulfur, but instead they make preparations like “essence” from manure, aged for six months in cow horns buried in the ground. Preparations "dynamize" by special mixing in water.

grateful vine

Biodynamics has been effective in reviving the biodiversity of vineyard ecosystems. Although skeptics will say that the point is not in manure and philosophy itself, but in the fact that biodynamics is a colossal amount of manual labor in the vineyards, which over the years is rewarded a hundredfold.

Fact

Major international certifying organizations for biodynamics: Demeter, Biodyvin, Respekt Biodyn.

naturalists

The movement that calls itself "natural winemaking" differs from organists and biodynamists in that it minimizes the use of sulfur in vineyards and in the winemaking process. Today, sulfur is considered the most "natural" means to protect wine from oxidation and the ingress of all sorts of harmful microorganisms. Therefore, wine without sulfur is rarely as pure and stable as the wines we are all used to.

Biodynamic wines can show phenomenally complex and interesting flavor profiles, but sometimes they turn out to be boring and characterless.

Vegan wines

The Vegan mark on the label is not about quality or ecology at all, but an indication of the compliance of the product with the vegan nutrition philosophy. No animal products are used in the production of vegan wines. For example, traditionally, to clean wine from suspensions after fermentation, egg white was added to the vat, which, binding unnecessary particles, settles to the bottom - the sediment is then removed and the wine remains clean and transparent.

Interesting

Today, in conventional winemaking, preparations based on animal fat (gelatin, casein, etc.) or preparations based on kaolin clay, silica gel, etc. can be used for purification. In the second case, winemakers can confidently declare that their wine is vegan.

According to the rules of kashrut

Kosher wines, with their system of rules and restrictions based on the laws of the Torah, are complex and expensive to produce. For example, all workers in a winery must be Shabbat-observant Jewish men, and a certain percentage of the wine produced must be poured on the ground as a sacrifice.

Fact

As with vegan wines, egg yolk and gelatin are not used in the production, and all winemakers' tools, from pruners to barrels, must also be kosher.

"Law of the Eagle"

This law prohibits the use of vines younger than four years old. Well, the main thing that a buyer needs to know, for whom kosher is unprincipled, is that kosher wines are pasteurized: before bottling, the wine is heated “until bubbles appear”. In ordinary winemaking, pasteurization has not been used for a long time, since boiling improves the microbiological stability of wine, but destroys its natural organoleptic properties.

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Smallganix. Organic baby food is always at hand

11/23/2022 admin

Thinking about busy and environmentally conscious parents, the Smallganics brand introduced ready-made organic baby food in a convenient and practical package.

All parents know how difficult it is to provide a child with good nutrition outside the home. The problem is usually in extra pounds in the bag and problems with heating food. Thinking about busy and environmentally conscious parents, Smallganics has introduced ready-made organic food for children in convenient and practical packaging. .

Lunch in Your Pocket

Smallganics branded products are formulated to provide the nutrients kids need and parents easy and convenient to consume. Smallganix's innovative food packaging is a thin, lightweight sachet that fits easily into a pocket or bag full of baby items. without weighing it down, as is the case with traditional dishes in jars. It is convenient to give bags to a child in different places - in a store, on a trip or in a restaurant. Thanks to them, preparing a healthy, warm lunch or dessert for a child no longer means returning home with the baby.

In line with the Nutritional Range concept, Smallganics meets the needs of today's parents who want to provide healthy, nutritious and delicious meals while away from home with their children .

Healthy First

Smallganics Organic Baby Food is made with only carefully selected, fresh ingredients. . These foods are tasty and rich in nutrients at the same time. They contain no sugar, salt, preservatives, artificial colors, flavors, thickeners, or GMOs. They ensure the proper development of a child who receives food from ingredients that do not contain pesticides and originate only from organic farming. 100% organic nutrition confirmed by the international organic certificate of the Soil Association.

Recipes adapted to the baby's age. Meals are divided into three types, depending on the needs of the body at certain stages of development:

Stage 1 - dishes for babies from 4 months the ingredients of the meal allow it to be used as a nutritional supplement):

Vegetable Trio (Vegetable Trio) - A delicate combination of carrots, sweet potatoes and Swedish turnips in a fresh lunch trio. Price: PLN 5.50.
Fruit Medley (Fruit Medley) is a delicate mix of organically farmed apples, bananas and mangoes that will delight your child with a fresh and delicious dessert. Price: PLN 5.50.

Stage 2 - dishes for babies from 7 months: