Healthy Food Choices: Organic Baby Food

Organic baby foods are a healthy choice for those beginning stages of development. Learn more about making healthy organic choices in this video.

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Nutrition is important in first 2 years of infancy
Nutrients important for life's developmental stages
Introduce one food at a time

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Alice Merritt is currently the Campus Dietitian at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She has a masters degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in public health with a concentration on nutrition. Alice has worked as a registered dietician for four years, and believes that helping people reach their nutritional goals will lead to a long and healthy life.

ALCIE MERRITT: Now I am going to talk to you about organic baby food. During the first two years of your baby's life, it is very important to have optimal nutrition. A lot of people are going more towards organic foods because we know during stages of large growth where most susceptible to the residues of pesticides and other harmful ingredients. If you want to your baby organic food, it is perfectly fine. It is actually a great thing to do. You want to feed them a variety of foods like lots of fruits and vegetables and you want introduce one food at a time. You also want to make sure that you pay attention to the baby's stages of development when you are introducing new foods and make sure the baby is ready for the food that you are introducing. Important things to remember is that organic baby foods actually are lower in pesticides and harmful residues. It is good to have organic baby foods in early stages of infancy when a lot of and development is very important. Remember you want to add in single foods one at a time so that you can assess if babies have some kind of allergy and you can find out what foods babies really do and do not like. It is important if your baby does not like a food that you reintroduce it at other times, at least 10 times before you give up on introducing that food. This way your baby will enjoy a variety of foods and have very healthy nutrition. These are important things to remember when looking at organic baby food.

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