How does commercial baby food measure up?
Commercial baby foods can be loosely divided into two types: mass-produced and boutique products. Mass-produced baby foods are the ones you see lining the supermarket aisles. While you can find some that are made to good nutritional standards, many are not ideal as a staple for your baby. Boutique baby food and meal companies tend to have a smaller production scale, use actual people to make the baby food, source quality products (often organic, though just because it is organic doesn’t mean it is boutique) and use cutting-edge technology to ensure freshness and hygiene. There are really only a few brands that produce their baby food as you would at home. Some may even provide baby with better foods than you can prepare yourself. Organic Bubs is one such company, for example they use a variety of superfoods such as quinoa and fig in their meals. Having watched their production, it is just as I would make baby food, only I haven’t a snap-drier freezer that locks in the nutrients, flavou
