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lil’gourmets mission is to embrace diversity. We introduce flavors from around the world to young ones to pique their interest in our world. We believe that when we learn about people and cultures outside of our own, they become less “foreign,” which leads not only to interest, but acceptance. We strive to make the world a smaller place through food. While diversity is core to who we are as people and as a company, we admittedly have only emphasized the positives of diversity, but have not addressed the injustice and racism that are present here at home and around the...

lil’gourmets is thrilled to announce our commitment to the Partnership for Healthier America (PHA), as they expand their Shaping Early Palates initiative, a campaign to promote early palate development in young children. The Shaping Early Palates program seeks to collaborate with brands with a similar mission: to expand availability and accessibility of veggie-forward baby and toddler foods in the marketplace. It’s a sad fact that a recent study showed that 84.4% of infants and toddlers are consuming foods with added sugars and artificial sweeteners on a daily basis. As babies are born with a natural preference for sweetness over more...

how our story began When the time came for Shibani Baluja to introduce her son, Jayden, to solid food, she was stunned by the lack of fresh, veggie-focused, good-tasting options available. All of the prepared food was either too bland or overly sweetened by fruit, and all highly processed. She ended up cooking all his meals but found it to be draining and stressful to have no good options when she needed a break. After seeing the impact that the early introduction of fresh, flavorful, vegetable-focused meals had on Jayden, and confirming it with medical research, she knew that we...