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Basic Approach
Weaning is a phase in which babies who have known nothing but drinking mother’s milk and dairy milk gradually become familiar with regular food and learn to eat, so that they can start obtaining nutrients from ordinary food.
As babies grow, they come to require more energy and nutrients than mother’s milk and dairy milk alone can provide. It is best to wean babies gradually according to their growth stage.
At Pigeon, we aim to contribute to the nutrition and healthy growth of weaning babies. To ensure that families can wean their babies easily and with peace of mind, we plan, develop, produce and market baby food and provide information to relieve parents’ anxieties and concerns during weaning.
Improving Nutrition of Babies
The nutrition babies need changes as they proceed from one growth stage to the next. At Pigeon, we develop baby foods from a wide range of carefully selected ingredients to deliver a balanced mix of those nutrients.
We also consider the size, consistency, thickening, and flavoring of the ingredients according to the stage of development of the baby's chewing ability as the baby grows, to provide baby food that babies can eat without difficulty.
In flavoring, our basic approach is to rely on the natural flavors of ingredients for a mild, light taste. Salt content is limited, in accordance with the autonomous standards of the Japan Baby Food Council.
To ensure parents’ peace of mind regarding the food their babies eat, Pigeon limits the types of food additives used and restricts their use to the bare minimum necessary.
We also produce baby foods rich in iron and calcium, which can be hard for babies to ingest sufficiently.
To relieve families’ anxieties and concerns during weaning and help babies to experience the joy of eating, we provide information on our website, including guides for each stage of growth and easy and fun weaning recipes.
How to start weaning
- How to start weaning (Japanese site)
Measures for Quality and Safety
To provide customers with safe and dependable products, the Pigeon Group specifies the Pigeon Quality Standards (PQS). These standards embody an original product-design approach and criteria that build safety, ease of use and durability into products from the product-development stage onward. By applying PQS globally, we are working to support and improve the design quality of our products manufactured worldwide.
In baby foods, we rigorously check the status of quality control on substances that affect food safety, such as agricultural chemical residues, microbes, allergens and impurities, adopting only raw materials that are safe and of high quality.
At the product design stage, we strive to minimize risk by scrupulously examining the shape and physical properties of contents, confirming quality stability through storage tests and analyzing from multiple perspectives whether product contents, containers, packaging, etc. could cause injuries or accidents during use.
Quality and Safety Initiatives
Committed to improving the quality of baby food, Pigeon is a proud member of the Japan Baby Food Council, we are working to make safe baby food available to consumers with confidence.
Japan Baby Food Council (Japanese site)
Communicating with Customers
At Pigeon, we want customers to choose our products based on a solid understanding of them. For that purpose, we take care to advertise our products appropriately and accurately. If a baby’s meal consists only of baby food, depending on the menu, the baby may not receive the necessary nutritional balance. It is said that the tastes cultivated and eating plans followed during infancy may affect the dietary habits of a lifetime.
This means that, for children of this age, nutritionally balanced meals are vital. We believe that it is important to provide information on how to add a few ingredients to our products to improve nutritional balance when preparing meals at home. On our websites and social media, we provide information on recipes that are well-balanced and can easily be prepared at home.
Pakutto weaning recipes (Japanese site)
Pigeon official Instagram page (Japanese site)
Pigeon takes great care in devising informative and effective packaging. We not only design the packaging of our retort-pouch products according to product-description standards but also carefully analyze the information consumers are most careful to confirm when purchasing weaning foods. In this way we ensure that customers can choose the right product from a wide variety of choices.
Information displayed on the front of the package:
Recommended age in months for use
- The recommended age in months for use is indicated on the front of the package in large, highlighted letters.
Size and hardness of the food
- In addition to the recommended age in months for use, the size and hardness of the ingredients are also indicated according to the developmental stage of the baby’s chewing ability.
Nutritional balance
- A radar chart is used to compare the nutritional balance between the nutrients that can be obtained from a single baby food product and the nutritional balance when a staple food is supplementarily added at home. In this way we clearly show that nutritional balance is improved when a staple food is added. (Retort Pouch series)
Food allergens
- In addition to the 7 specified ingredients that are required to be displayed by law, our packaging displays all 21 items specified for optional display that are contained in the product.
Information displayed on the back of the package:
Expiration date
- The expiration date, by which the product should be consumed if stored unopened, is indicated.
To reduce food losses, the former practice of expressing the expiration date as date/month/year is replaced with month/year date.
How to use
- The packaging uses illustrations to describe how to heat the product if the customer chooses to do so.
- Warnings are prominently displayed, to prevent burns and other injuries that may occur while heating the product.
Ingredients
- Ingredients are listed separately from additives in order of relative quantity from greatest to least.
Net content
- Net weight, volume and quantity are all listed.
Quantity and calorific value of nutrients
- The quantity and calorific value of each nutrient per serving is displayed.
Names and addresses of production and processing sites
- The names and addresses of the production and processing suppliers for Pigeon products are listed.
Contact information
- The packaging displays the telephone number and hours of operation of Pigeon’s Customer Service Center, for customers to contact in case of questions, inquiries or concerns.
Products that Support Important Nutrients for Babies’ Futures
Pigeon offers a wide range of supplements to support women’s nutrition from the period when they are trying to get pregnant, through pregnancy, and into the breastfeeding phase. These supplements are designed from the perspective of child development and health management for mothers. They include folic acid, DHA, iron, calcium, and zinc.
In addition to products, we actively strive to provide pregnant and breastfeeding women with vital information through various media. Feelings of unease are particularly common early in pregnancy, so we prepare and widely share information based on Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare guidelines, along with content supervised by doctors, to ensure that clear and accurate information reaches the women who need it most.
- Example of contents related to "Necessary Body Care during Pregnancy and Lactation (Japanese)
Pigeon's Supplement Series
Other Initiatives to Contribute to Babies’ Healthy Growth
Pigeon is committed to contributing to the healthy growth of newborns and other babies at the breastfeeding stage.
To this end, Pigeon provides information, products and services and engages in a wide range of supporting activities. In terms of babies’ nutrition, mother’s milk is the best food for babies in their first six months of life. Based on that understanding, we have issued a “Statement in Support of Breastfeeding,” declaring our firm stance in support of breastfeeding.
Pigeon's commitment to support breastfeeding
Pigeon contributes to the healthy growth of each and every baby requiring specialized care through a wide range of products, services and supporting activities.
- Support for Human Milk Banks
- Initiatives for Babies Who Need Special Care
- Establishing and Supporting Lactation Loungesare
Related Information: Use of Certified Marine Products
Some Pigeon baby-food products include marine products (fish, shellfish, etc.
).
Currently Pigeon does not use marine products certified by bodies such as the Marine Stewardship Council or the Aquaculture Stewardship Council. Our use of such certified products is 0% at the time of writing.
In the interests of sustainable use of marine products, Pigeon will consider the possibility of using such products going forward.
First Baby Food Maker Set
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Baby food in Japan - melon_panda — LiveJournal
Probably, many have lost me a little! In fact, for the first time in a very long time, I had no desire, and then no strength to open my own magazine. I don’t want to go into details, besides, I somehow become limp and aspire when they pity me massively :D but in general, the whole family was ill with a variety of infernal acute respiratory infections, infected a child, ended up in a hospital, from which today with a happy whoop escaped. I haven’t been sick like this for a very long time, and we all felt very bad, but we hold on and don’t lose our fighting spirit, especially since everyone is already practically healthy, and besides that, in general, we don’t care. So forgive everyone who lost me, I'm back on the air and start reading all the 170+ letters that are patiently waiting for me.
Looking at Katya's exotic hospital food today, I decided to stop postponing and write about baby food in Japan.
Both breastfeeding and breastfeeding in Japan are treated lightly and condescendingly - as long as it eats. As for the “nursing mother’s diet”, all recommendations come down to limiting heavy and fatty European food and eating more black foods (algae, shiitake, prunes, black sesame) to improve lactation. As for feeding babies, they start it a little differently than in Russia. The earliest food starts at 5 months, and this is, firstly, okay rice porridge made from boiled soft rice (of course, without salt). In Japan, there is no concept of "baby porridge", there is only rice. And no one, of course, says that it causes constipation (it is checked - it does not happen). If you are guided by factory, not homemade food, then at this age they still give pumpkin, diluted apple juice and a mixture of vegetables, as well as mashed fruits and vegetables, including tomatoes, corn and peppers. From 7-8 months - complete expanse: white fish from 6 months and chicken livers from 7, mushroom soup, and also from six months - Japanese dashi broth (which is cooked from kombu seaweed and several types of dried fish).
Here is an example of dry semi-finished food from 7 months - udon with various traditional broth and vegetable additives.
I also saw something called "white sauce" for sale, and of course children's yoghurts and fruit and vegetable juice. Instead of our children's cookies - sembei rice cookies. In general, compared to our zucchini and broccoli, it’s somewhat politically incorrect :))) Very early, from 7-8 months they offer children udon wheat noodles, but in general, in general, the approach to baby food as an adult, the same dishes - curry (English type ), spaghetti, ankake (a tofu dish thickened with starch), various rice dishes, only in a simplified version. In fact, Japanese cuisine is quite suitable for feeding the sick and children, it is enough to remove from it or reduce elements with an intense taste - soy sauce, ginger, sesame oil, fatty meat and fatty fish - everything else is more than dietary, especially when you consider that most dishes in Japanese cuisine are boiled and poached.
And one more interesting fact - in Japan there are few fruit juices for children, perhaps because fruits are not a priority at all and due to the high sugar content they are considered a dessert, pampering (in the pyramid of a healthy balanced diet there is a norm something like half an apple a day) while we try to eat fruit as much as possible. But from 3 months, children are given isotonic water (like sports water with salts) and weak hojicha tea (fried).
Here are examples of what Japanese women feed their babies
5 months: white vegetables with rice
6 months: rice porridge, boiled gourd, miso soup
7 months: rice porridge, daikon tofu, tomato with yogurt
noodles vegetables with rice
8 months: something like a risotto with cheese and tomatoes
At first I bought Katya food - rice and vegetables - in the form of flakes that dissolve easily in hot water. Compared to Japanese, Russian baby cereals, like everything else, look very monumental)))
I’m already quite used to tiny packages for one tooth, and it seems to me that one-time bags are more convenient and hygienic than a giant bag of porridge that you don’t know when you run out .
.. We didn’t get canned food - there is no guarantee that the child will like it , and buying a jar to eat one spoon out of it and throw it away, and so five times in a row, does not make much sense. In general, as far as I understand, Japanese women mostly prepare children's food themselves - the quality of vegetables, fruits and meat is stable all year round, and it is easy to cook all this. The only thing is - there is no turkey and buckwheat, but the Japanese, I think, do not suffer about this, because they simply do not know what they are deprived of in life :D
For older children, food is sold in the form of pre-cooked meals in soft packs, Frizz Dry, but I think this is a camping option. Serving a child a fully canned meal while the family is munching on a freshly prepared dinner is kind of a no-brainer!
I am little surprised, but the hospital diet for children amazed me) 7 months ago I showed what they fed me in a Japanese maternity hospital, it was a modest homemade Japanese cuisine (rice and miso soup 3 times a day, steamed vegetables, a minimum amount of meat and fish).
As food for the little ones in the same hospital, dashi was brought to us, sometimes with a tiny amount of miso - such a light miso soup in the end on water or vegetable broth, of course it was not as salty as adult miso soup, and also boiled to complete homogeneity of rice porridge, or rather even rice paste. It looks as if rice flour was simply brewed with boiling water, of course, without salt and sugar. The dish is very strange, although it is quite edible, and what, it smells like rice, is pure carbohydrate (after such exercises, you begin to perceive food philosophically). The funny thing is that our child, grown on delicious spinach soups and complex fruit and vegetable purees hot from the heat, cracked this paste and washed it down with seaweed broth, like a pretty one, champed and took away the bowl. And in general, her favorite food is rice without everything, tofu, and now, apparently, dashi. By the way, the phenomenon - in Japan, even foreign children, even Russians, even those who are very picky about food - as a rule, they eat Japanese rice without salt and miso soup so that it crackles behind their ears.
Speaking of nutrition, the Japanese recently discovered cesium isotopes in one of the milk formulas for artificial feeding, the batch was recalled and the buyers were warned, but it seemed to work out, and the amount of cesium there was not threatening. Who wants to ask if I'm afraid to buy Japanese diapers and food - oh better don't ask, otherwise I'll start asking if you are also, in general, afraid to buy Russian food, since they don't make diapers in Russia))
Japanese green pigeon
The Japanese green pigeon is a species of bird in the pigeon family. The specific Latin name is given in honor of the German naturalist Philip Siebold.
The Japanese green pigeon is a very cautious and poorly studied bird, even in its relatively wide distribution areas.
Habitat of the Japanese green pigeon
The range covers the Japanese Islands, the Korean Peninsula, the Kuriles, South Sakhalin and Primorye. In Russia, it belongs to rare species with a disjunctive, peripheral range.
This is the only representative of the genus Green pigeons in the fauna of the Russian Federation. Outside of Russia, they nest on the islands of the Japanese archipelago from Hokkaido in the north to Ryukyu in the south, they are also found in Taiwan and along the entire southeastern coast of China. In Korea and on about. Ulleungdo is rather a vagrant bird. Presumably breeds in Kunashir and in the southern part of Sakhalin.
Appearance of the Japanese Green Pigeon
Outwardly, this bird is a bit like wood dove or stock dove, but has denser and brighter plumage. The body length of the Japanese green dove can be from 25 to 35 centimeters, and it weighs about 300 grams. Possesses a dense constitution, the head is small. The neck is relatively short. These birds have a slightly swollen beak of medium length. The wings are small, rounded at the ends. They also have a short, but wide and straight tail. The plumage is quite dense and relatively soft. Their main color is yellowish-green.
But even though their feathers are of such a bright color, the color is not saturated throughout the body: the wings and tail are brighter, but the body, neck and head are duller.
Food of the Japanese green pigeon
The Japanese green pigeon is a herbivorous bird and its diet is based on berries of cherries and bird cherry. They also often like to eat the fruits of a fig tree and various juicy fruits. They immediately swallow their food whole. They pick most of their food from trees, sitting on a branch. In this they are similar to representatives of the parrot order.
Japanese green pigeon lifestyle
The Japanese green pigeon prefers primary undisturbed mixed and broad-leaved forests of the Far Eastern type. It suffers from logging and other anthropogenic factors. Green pigeons love the forest undergrowth with cherry and bird cherry, grapes and actinidia, elderberry, honeysuckle and other plants, the fruits of which they consume for food.
