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Make Nutrient-Dense Foods a Part of Your Baby's First 1000 Days - Lil' Gourmets

Make Nutrient-Dense Foods a Part of Your Baby's First 1000 Days

A Research Driven Approach to Your Baby's Nutrition lil’gourmets was created based on the latest medical research surrounding the importance of the first 1,000 days of nutrition in a baby’s life.

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Introducing Solids by Dr. Rupa Mahadevan - Lil' Gourmets

Introducing Solids by Dr. Rupa Mahadevan

  Getting started...with veggies! Your pediatrician will recommend that solid food be introduced between 4- 6 months of age. Starting solids closer to 6 months has been shown to prevent obesity in the long run. We suggest starting with vegetables and then move to fruit as dessert over time. Avocados are a great starter food as they are soft, rich in taste, and full of omega 3's.   Embrace variety There is a growing consensus from food experts that babies do not need to start with eating one vegetable or fruit at a time, unless, there is a strong family history of food allergies. Given this...

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lil’gourmets Earns Clean Label Project Purity Award - Lil' Gourmets

lil’gourmets Earns Clean Label Project Purity Award

We are honored and humbled to share that lil’gourmets has been awarded the Clean Label Project™ Purity Award. The Purity Award represents the ultimate standard of the Clean Label Project certification, which conducts rigorous, independent food testing for over 400 different contaminants including heavy metals, chemicals, plastics, pesticides and other toxins. Many of you have asked about our approach to quality and testing, given some of the concerning news reports that have recently surfaced regarding heavy metals in baby foods. We founded lil’gourmets based on our values of quality and integrity, and we made choices along the way to include...

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Partnership for a Healthier America Launches ‘Veggies Early & Often’ Campaign to Build a Generation of Veggie Lovers - Lil' Gourmets

Partnership for a Healthier America Launches ‘Veggies Early & Often’ Campaign to Build a Generation of Veggie Lovers

New icon will be adopted by lil'gourmets and partners across sectors to signal veggie-forward foods in the marketplace Date: January 26, 2021 (Excerpt from Press Release) WASHINGTON, DC - Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), the premier national nonprofit working to transform the food landscape in pursuit of health equity, announced today a new campaign, “Veggies Early and Often.” The campaign aims to transform the food landscape for our youngest eaters by offering consumers a new, reliable indicator that products marketed as having vegetables actually have vegetables in significant amounts and calling on brands and organizations to prioritize a veggie-forward approach. PHA designed this...

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