Gaga for Organic

Demand for organic commercial baby food is on the rise—and for good reason. Many experts believe that choosing organic foods is especially important for infants because they are much smaller than adults and often eat more food per pound.

As a result, any pesticide residue remaining on conventional foods may have a more significant effect on an infant or child than on an adult. And because they are experiencing rapid growth and development, everything you put in your infant’s body has the potential to affect them more significantly than at later stages in life.

Infants also lack the same defenses as adults and even older children, such as established blood-brain barriers, immune systems or liver detoxification enzymes. This makes them more vulnerable when it comes to potentially toxic compounds.

These concerns have led many parents to favor organic foods whenever possible. Our shelves offer many organic choices for baby. Options include: fresh frozen purées, baby food in jars, cereals, crackers, teething biscuits and other snacks for infants and toddlers. Whole Foods Market is also the ideal place to shop for ingredients to make your own baby food because we offer more fresh, organic produce than any other store.


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Many parents prefer to eat certified organic foods during pregnancy and lactation since they feel this is a more wholesome choice for themselves and their developing and growing children. Organic food products are produced using:

Agricultural management practices that promote and enhance agro- and eco-system health and use no genetically engineered seeds or crops, sewage sludge, long-lasting pesticides, herbicides or fungicides.

Livestock management practices that promote healthy, humanely treated animals by providing organically-grown feed, fresh air and outdoor access while using no antibiotics or growth hormones.

Food processing practices that protect the integrity of the organic product and disallow irradiation, genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) or synthetic preservatives.

Organic foods may be best for children and infants because:

Infants and children are much smaller than adults, and often eat more food on a per pound basis than do adults. For this reason, any pesticide residue remaining on conventional foods may have the potential to affect children more significantly than adults.

Children, in particular infants, do not have the same defenses, like established blood brain barriers, immune systems or liver detoxification enzymes, as adults and are more vulnerable when it comes to potentially toxic compounds.

Children and infants are in a stage of rapid growth and development. Exposure to harmful compounds at this time could have a more deleterious effect than for adults.