2021’S BEST BABY FOOD BRANDS
1. Best in First Baby Cereal
Gerber Organic 1st Food Single Grain Cereal
Cereals are packed with iron and are your go-to source for this nutrient that babies are usually lacking. Gerber's range of single grain cereals comes in rice or oatmeal. Since they are just one ingredient, you can mix them with breast milk, formula or water. It's also a great way to introduce 4 to 6-month old babies to different textures. As your baby grows older and experiments with other foods, you can mix these single grain cereals with fruits or yogurt for some extra goodness.
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2. Best in Organic Baby Food Pouches
Plum's stage 1 organic baby foods are a superb way to introduce solids to 4-plus-months babies. The ingredients are non-GMO and organic. The blends are unsalted, unsweetened and kosher parve. You will love the packaging, which are resealable pouches allowing for dishing out baby food in portions suitable for your baby. Plus, it offers you different flavours like peaches, prunes, mangoes and sweet potatoes to choose from.
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3. Best in Baby Food Subscription Service
If there's any baby food brand that screams convenience, it's Yumi. Not only do they make super fresh and organic baby food, but they also deliver it to your doorstep. Besides, with a wide range of Yumi baby food products, there's always something for every baby regardless of their developmental milestone. There's also the Yumi Milestone Plan, a tool that offers you meal plans created by experienced nutritionists. You can opt for different meal plans depending on the number of meals per day and the number of days.
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4. Best in Overall Jarred Baby Food
This glass-jarred favourite baby food brand has foods for every stage, from single-ingredient blends for younger babies to multi-food blends for older babies. Plus, it's recyclable glass jars are perfect for handling and storage. Beech-Nut's food blends are made from real (non-GMO) ingredients that are gently cooked.
Pro Tip: Broken glass can harm your baby, so always keep a close eye on him or her anytime they around these glass jars.
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5. Best in Baby Food for Constipation
Gerber Natural 1st Foods (Pear)
Sometimes the switch from breast milk or formula to solids makes babies constipated as their little bowels adjust. Baby foods with fibre are what you need to include in your baby's diet to give him or her free bowels. Usually, your best shot is fruits like pears, prunes, plums and peaches. The Gerber brand has all these fruit-purees in its range of baby food, although the plum is blended with banana and grapes as a 2nd food for babies who are too old for 1st foods.
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6. Best in Budget-Friendly Baby Food
Gerber remains the most affordable baby food brand on the market. They have improved; switching to glass jar packaging, adding an organic line and having a wide range of baby food without increasing their prices, unlike other brands. So they are still the brand to have your eyes on if you don't want to break the bank.
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7. Best in Organic Jarred Baby Food
Happy Baby Clearly Crafted Stage 1
The Happy Family Organics brand is another organic baby food option. Fun flavours made of high-quality, natural (not artificial or non-GMO) fruit and veggie ingredients are this brand's unique selling point. Even though they are not as widely distributed as other brands. Their blends come as single-ingredient (fruit or veggie) or multi-ingredient (an all-fruit blend or blend of fruits and veggies).
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8. Best in Baby Finger Food
Save yourself the time of preparing finger foods for your baby. Happy Family Organics has a snack line that is made of organic, natural ingredients. These are soft enough for older babies (9 to 12 months) to snack on as they learn to use their fingers to feed themselves.
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9. Best in Fresh Baby Food
Once Upon a Farm Cold-Pressed Organic Baby Food
This brand's farm-to-fridge range comes in a variety of organic, refrigerated and cold-pressed blends. These can either be fruits, fruit and veggies, smoothies or yogurts. The Once Upon a Farm brand has lots of goodies to offer, such as variety and a subscription delivery option. It also has baby food for all the food stages. Besides, you can select blends you like, choose how often in a month you want them delivered to you and have them brought right to your doorstep if you subscribe.
Pro Tip: Keep this brand's products refrigerated all the time. They are cold-pressed to lock in nutrient and taste and must be kept that way.
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By Nana Ama Afoa Osae I Writer I GreatWonderful Team
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