The headlines around heavy metals, pesticides and plasticizers in baby food continue to increase and frankly, it’s nothing new. If you’re fed up with the lack of regulation around safety standards too, then you’ve come to the right place. Little Spoon has set a new standard for baby food safety in the United States. We are the first and only baby food brand in the US to set strict limits for more than 500 toxins and contaminants, testing forheavy metals, pesticides and plasticizers and utilizing testing limits based on the best-in-class European Union standard. 

So, what can parents do to keep their little one’s safe and protect them from overexposure to heavy metals? The good news is—a lot. Here’s how Little Spoon is making it easy.

1. We Provide a Varied Diet 

Little Spoon has a diverse menu of over 40 freshly made Babyblend flavors, including over 100+ USDA Certified Organic ingredients for an endless variety of mealtime combinations. 

Variety not only exposes your little one’s palate to a range of tastes and textures, but also helps avoid reliance on one ingredient that could be naturally higher in heavy metals. Every batch of Little Spoon’s baby products are tested by a third-party accredited lab, and no product is sold unless it passes every test – period. 

That means what you serve your baby is held to the publicly available standards Little Spoon holds for all of their Babyblends. This unprecedented commitment raises the bar for baby food safety, purity and transparency in the US, bringing peace of mind to parents and much-needed change to a century-old industry. 

2. We Skip the Rice 

Rice is an ingredient known to have higher levels of organic and inorganic arsenic—and is often found in many early stage starting solids foods. Skip the rice and instead opt for organic grains and seeds like chia, oats or buckwheat. Little Spoon offers a range of Babyblends featuring these nutritious, healthy ingredients. 

3. We Source from Trusted Farm Partners 

We never compromise on safety, which means we only source our ingredients from trusted farm partners who adhere to rigorous safety and quality standards. Learn more here. 

Little Spoon’s Babyblends are USDA certified organic, and that matters. Why? Using Certified Organic produce means that no sewage sludge or biosolids make their way into the soil. Cover crops at organic farms are also utilized to protect the soil from wind and water erosion and crop rotation is employed to build organic matter, mitigate the use of persistent pesticides, fix nitrogen levels and prevent soil erosion. Heavy metals are naturally occurring in our soils, our water and even the air., the natural levels have only been exacerbated by human pollution. Because of this, it’s important to know that your food is grown with the best agricultural practices. 

4. We Incorporate Calcium and Iron-Rich Ingredients 

Calcium and iron-rich ingredients help reduce the body’s absorption of heavy metals— making them valuable for anyone’s diet, but especially your little one’s! Little Spoon incorporates ingredients like flaxseed, kale, spinach and broccoli into a wide range of their Babyblends to make it easy to add these nutritious eats into your mini’s menu. 

5. We Are Committed to YOU. 

You’re reading this article and researching this topic because you care! Your child’s health and safety should be a given and it’s critically important that you use your voice to support any and all regulation in the baby food space that puts the power back in the hands of parents + caretakers who deserve trust and confidence in what they feed their children.

Little Spoon is committed to earning and keeping your trust and their hyper-transparent approach and their unwavering quality standards. Check it out here.