What is so unappealing about store bought baby food?
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Question: What is so unappealing about store bought baby food?
My son loves the beech nut rasin granola cereal in the jars along with sweet potatoes and a few others. I do give him mostly table food, but I use the baby food every day. The reason I ask is a question I asked last night about the baby food, and I got about 5 out of 8 answers saying how lazy it is, and unhealthy. What exactly is unhealthy about it? I am being serious. If there is something bad in baby food I would really like to know.
The answer in the following:
Answer by Sarah V
Honey don’t feel bad. It is supposed to be made with natural and healthy ingredients. People saying that to you are being snobs and rude. I actually made my baby food but to SAVE money, not really because it’s more healthy….it’s fine. Millions of moms use jars 
Answer by Ama dun
most unapealina to me is the allowable amounts of insect parts and rat turds
Answer by Aundrea
I kept my son on store bought baby food for a while, it was the only way he would eat veggies! He would munch on table food, but I typically brought out a jar of veggies and sometimes the cereals for breakfast.
The thing is, if your little one is content, has a full belly, is growing…then there isn’t anything to worry about.
Answer by Diet C
I think most are talking about the preservatives and added salt and sugar that are in most commercial baby food.
Plus it’s an added cost when you could easily toss some of your meal into a blender or just give him his own plate.
Pippin: I don’t read the labels because I don’t buy it, we’re going to table food from the beginning. I’ve never looked into baby food because I won’t use it. I was just recycling an answer that a friend of mine had given me when I asked her why she was throwing out all her jarred food and making her own instead.
I assumed she knew what she was talking about since she had the stuff in her house and had been feeding it to her son.
Answer by theresad
i do not think that it is bad i gave my son gerber baby foods not everyone has the time to process their own baby food
Answer by Ada Nam
sometimes the factorys are dirty and little chunks of rats and bugs get into the food and its ok cuz the factorys dont get inspected all that often and a certein amount of nasty stuff is legal. oh and its lazy
Answer by Artie Lange Fan
I prefer fresh made food over canned food for babies and adults, the fresher the better.
And that jarred stuff smells bad to me, I don’t know why it smells so bad…
But that’s what I prefer for my family, what others do is their business.
Answer by goodies make the boys jump on it
nothing tons of moms on here think they know it all and try to put you down for the way your parent your kids just ignore the snobby ones theres nothing unhealthy about it your fine i know tons of people who o it to save money but it’s all the same
Answer by Britney
I think table foods are more nutritious than baby foods. I have tasted the baby foods and they are nasty. But a baby wouldn’t know the difference.
You aren’t’ lazy for feeding him baby foods. that’s just insane.
Answer by Pippin
Well, some babies don’t like it. And many adults don’t like it because it doesn’t have much flavor. (It’s heavily cooked, and has no salt or seasonings. So it tastes somewhat like overcooked, unsalted canned fruits and veggies.)
And no, it isn’t unhealthy either. (Most babies on jarred foods are still getting 99% of their nutrients from formula or breastmilk, so the slight loss of vitamins that comes from the cooking and canning process is pretty irrelvent.)
Do what works for you. Babies are on purees for such a short time (and, as noted, they contribute such a small percentage of baby’s nutrition) that it really doesn’t matter. Some moms like to make their own because they want it to be organic, or they want to have better control over the ingredients, or they want to save money.
EDIT: Diet C: There are NO preservatives in babyfood. There dont’ have to be, because the canning process preseves the food. And, except for a few desserts and toddler foods, there are no salt or sugar in them either. (Read the label. Stage one foods, and most stage 2 foods are just ‘the food’ and water.)
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my daughter has baby food at lunch times and home cooked food for dinner in the evening – i dont have a problem with it at all – seeing as i eat unhealthy lunches say a microwave meal or a buger or something or sometihng dairy she cant have (she has milk allergy) then its cheaper and quick for me to give her a jar than to buy ingredients and make her her own meal every lunch time – the ones i buy say no preservatives, no added salt etc etc..
I dont think it is bad. We use baby jarred foods every day. Ryan does he eat some table foods but he LOVES jarred fruits.
This made me laugh because beech nut raisin granola cereal is my 8 month olds absolute FAVOURITE food. She would eat it for every meal if i let her. I don’t think that there is anything bad in baby’s food but I have noticed that my daughter likes baby food that i make in a food mill way better than store bought stuff. I wonder if whatever they use to clean the foods in factories or whatever, tastes bad to the kids. With all the crap in our food like trans fat, high fructose corn syrup, wood starch, and all that other stuff that companies are allowed to feed us, I would think baby food is probably the healthiest thing in a grocery store next to the actual fruits and vegetables.
I believe it is a personal choice, not all moms have the time to make baby food. I personally did but I am a stay at home mom with only one baby so I had LOTS of time.
The reason people are against it is because of the processing. The more you process a food, the more nutrients it looses and even when you add them back in at the end its technically not as healthy as what mother nature put in to begin with.
they are still healthy, and if your mixing it in with table food then even better! The WIC program in my state just added them to our checks and you can rest assured that they wouldn’t put anything bad for our kids on there.
Remember a lot of moms feel the need to put you down so they can feel better about themselves and their parenting style.
as long as there are no additives like corn syrup there is nothing wrong with it.
to all the bug comments:if the worst thing your baby eats in life is few bugs then your doing pretty damn good! its just a little extra protien.
I don’t know what people are talking about.I was unaware that there was anything wrong with it. I think that the baby food in the jars are perfectly fine! My girl are 2 and 4 and I gave it to them!They are perfectly healthy and thriving girls. And I plan on giving it to my 9 weeker when hes old enough. The way I see it if gerber or beechnut is making it especially for babies they would never make it harmful to them! Quite frankly I think that its none of anybody’s business what you feed your son as long as your not abusing or neglecting him! Don’t worry about negative comments you do what you feel is best for your son!
There is nothing unhealthy about store bought baby food. I made my daughters food, but I ate store bought baby food when I was a baby, and I was perfectly healthy. If it was unhealthy, they wouldn’t be able to sell it. I just happen to love to cook. I also wanted my daughter to try different foods that she probably wouldn’t with store bought baby foods, like brocolli, eggplant, and mangos. Also, I didn’t want to freak out if I ever ran out, we always have fruits and veggies in our house.
If you read the ingredients on the baby food, you’ll see that they list “green beans” for example, and water, and that’s it. There are people who feel that that’s unhealthy. Not at all. There are other food sources that are healthier, but there’s nothing unhealthy about most store-bought fruit and veggies that list just the fruit, veggies, and water as the ingredients.
It would be even healthier if you’re able to make the food yourself. Fresh vegetables do lose some of their nutrients over time. So if you can buy fresh produce, and have the time to process it and freeze it, then you can make your own baby food and it will be healthier than store bought. I tried this with my first child, and soon realized that I’d rather spend my time playing with my baby and sleeping.