Lil' Gourmets Blog

  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...

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...

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...

In our last blog post, we mentioned that we decided to launch lil’gourmets after confirming with medical research that this was an ideal way to begin feeding kids. So, what is this medical research? We asked our Pediatric Advisor, Dr. Rupa Mahadevan, to explain in her words the latest research related to first foods and infant nutrition. A Word from Our Pediatric Advisor Emerging evidence suggests that introducing infants to nutritious eating patterns can set the stage for a healthy diet throughout their lives. This important research has several key takeaways: Repeated Exposure: Familiarizing children to a varied diet that...