Information updated July and August 2023

POTENTIAL BABY FOOD TOXICITY: There is significant, current and scary data regarding the presence of ingredients which are not on any ingredient labels >> the toxic components which have seeped into almost all of the manufactured foods + beverages we consume and, by definition, most mass-produced baby foods. (Source: Subcommittee Report 2021)

Here is additional information on toxins in many Baby Foods from Healthy Babies Bright Futures:

baby food toxins

PLUM ORGANICS BABY FOOD is owned by SUN-MAID.

START WITH HOMEMADE: We begin as always with a look at the ingredients in a homemade product — in this case, Baby Food — so we have an easy way to compare + assess the ingredients in Plum Organics and other manufactured Baby Foods.

Homemade Baby Food is simple with clean, single ingredients solo or combined: fruits, veggies, grains, fish+fowl+beef and possibly dairy.

SUN-MAID ADDS FDA-RECOGNIZED CHEMICAL PRESERVATIVES TO MANY PLUM ORGANICS PRODUCTS TO EXTEND THEIR SHELF LIVES. (Sources: Sun-Maid Plum Organics Web site 7/23; FDA 2023)

ASCORBIC ACID: Although many food manufacturers identify Ascorbic Acid as Vitamin C, this is inaccurate according to Harvard Medical School.According to Harvard Medical School, Ascorbic Acid is “A fractionated, crystalline isolate of Vitamin C. It is a laboratory chemical, a corn starch derivative.” (Source: Harvard Health Publications)

CITRIC ACID: Unless specifically noted as ‘Naturally-derived Citric Acid’, Manufactured Citric acid is created in a factory utilizing Black Mold (Aspergillus niger). (Source: National Library of Medicine U.S. National Institute of Health)

Learn more about potential reactions to Manufactured Citric Acid from a study — Potential role of the common food additive manufactured citric acid in eliciting significant inflammatory reactions contributing to serious disease states: A series of four case reports

From the study:

“Citric acid naturally exists in fruits and vegetables. However, it is not the naturally occurring citric acid, but the manufactured citric acid (MCA) that is used extensively as a food and beverage additive. Approximately 99% of the world’s production of MCA is carried out using the fungus Aspergillus niger since 1919. Aspergilus niger is a known allergen.”

The conclusion of this study is:

“We cannot conclusively affirm that Manufactured Citric Acid is the causative factor in the subjects’ inflammatory symptoms. However, our findings demonstrate a significant likelihood that MCA may be the culprit and are suggestive of valid concerns which warrant proper double blind studies to determine presence or absence of harm.”

Source: National Library of Medicine U.S. Institutes of Health

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MANUFACTURED CITRIC ACID

Shown below, THERE ARE FOUR SOURCES OF ADDED SWEETENERS FOR BREAKFAST IN PLUM ORGANICS BLUEBERRY + LEMON MIGHTY MORNING BAR FOR TOTS.

Q: Do you think feeding babies products with Added Sweeteners creates a life-long taste preference for sweeter-than-natural items?

CLOSEST TO HOMEMADE® BABY FOODS HAVE INGREDIENTS WHICH ARE CLOSEST TO THOSE WE WOULD USE AT HOME TO MAKE BABY FOODS.

Here are some Baby Food products which are Closest To Homemade . . . and notes on why some are not . . .

*Neither money nor products are ever accepted to appear on the Closest To Homemade list*

Demeter biodynamic® certification has zero tolerance for genetic modification including the use of any GMO organisms or ingredients. Biodynamic® products are sourced from biodynamic farms which practice regenerative farming >> items are grown and raised here in a way which helps heal the soil and the earth, so they not only taste great and have optimal nutrition but they help combat climate change >> they remove carbon from the atmosphere and put it back into the soil. Find out more about Biodynamic® farming from Demeter — the only certifier in the U.S. for Biodynamic® farms and products:

BIODYNAMIC® FARMING + FOODS

Seen below, Danone-owned Happy Family (Happy Baby, Happy Tot) has been sued for the presence of lead in some of their products >> lawsuit issued June 2021; read more here:

HAPPY FAMILY BABY FOOD LAWSUIT

This has now spiraled into the consolidation of 17 individual lawsuits against Happy Baby:

HAPPY BABY CONSOLIDATED LAWSUIT