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Weaning Baby: Safe Fish Guidelines

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UK Fish Guidelines for BabyFish is an excel­lent source of pro­tein for your baby when they reach stage 2 (7+ months old.) The omega-3 acids in many fatty fish help to spur on brain growth. How­ever, you may already be aware that some fish con­tain mer­cury or that there is a risk of an aller­gic reaction.

This is what Mind­ful Mum’s need to know about fish:

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Picking and Choosing Organic Fruit and Vegetables

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Avoid Pesticides Organic Fruit and Vegetable SelectorWhether you are preg­nant, breast feed­ing, start­ing the wean­ing process or hid­ing veg­eta­bles in your tod­dlers meals, fruit and veg­eta­bles are para­mount to rais­ing a healthy child. In the UK we are advised to eat 5 por­tions a day from a wide range of fruit and veg­eta­bles, but should we be buy­ing organic?

Mind­ful Mum has cre­ated the fol­low­ing guide to pick­ing and choos­ing organic fruit and veg­eta­bles. The guide is based on ‘buy­ing organic’ when the pes­ti­cide residues in a par­tic­u­lar food are high. There is no need to go organic when the food does not con­tain high lev­els of pesticides.

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Baby Product Recall: Heinz Fruity Custard — Fruit Medley

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Heinz Baby Food Recall Fruity Custard PotsHeinz is recall­ing an iso­lated batch of Heinz Fruity Cus­tard, Fruit Med­ley baby food in 4 x 100g pots because of the poten­tial pres­ence of small pieces of plas­tic from the inside of the pot which could present a chok­ing risk. The batch code affected is 9307 with a best before end date of 03/11/10.

  • Heinz Baby Food: Fruity Cus­tard, Fruit Med­ley Baby Food
  • Plas­tic pots: 4 x 100g pots
  • Batch code: 9307
  • Best before: 03/11/10
  • Haz­ard: Plas­tic pieces in pot could poten­tially cause an infant to choke

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Product Recall: Heinz Apple & Pear Purée Pouches

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Heniz-Apple-Pear-PureeHeinz is recall­ing an iso­lated batch of 100% apple & pear purée in 90g pouches, sold in four-pack car­tons for tod­dlers. Par­ents and car­ers have been asked not to con­sume the product.

The recalled prod­uct is sold in four-pack car­tons for toddlers:

  • Heinz 100% Apple and Pear Purée
  • Plas­tic pouches 4 x 90g
  • Batch code: L9286
  • ‘Best before’: 11 Jan­u­ary 2011

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BPA Free Weaning Equipment — Part 2 — Bowls, Spoons, Cups and Sets

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BPA Free Stainless Steel Training CupHere is part 2 of BPA-free wean­ing equip­ments. It looks at bowls, feed­ing sets, spoons and train­ing cups. We  also include why it is impor­tant to con­sider BPA Free wean­ing equip­ment and get­ting started wean­ing tips.

For safe prepa­ra­tion equip­ment; hand blenders, mix­ing bowls, and con­tain­ers see Part 1 - BPA-Free food prepa­ra­tion and stor­age equip­ment.

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BPA Free Weaning Equipment for Baby — Part 1 Food Preparation

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The term ‘BPA Free Wean­ing Equip­ment’ hit the No. 1 spot on Mind­ful Mum’s  most searched list last week.  Par­ents are actively search­ing for BPA free prepa­ra­tion equip­ment, stor­age con­tain­ers, bowls,spoons and train­ing cups when they start to wean their baby on to solid food.

Mind­ful Mum has cre­ated a list of BPA-Free wean­ing prod­ucts for your baby. Part 1 below includes BPA-Free food prepa­ra­tion and stor­age equip­ment. Part 2 lists BPA-Free bowls, feed­ing sets, spoons and train­ing cups.

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Foods You Don’t Have to Buy Organic

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Foods You Don't Need to Buy OrganicIts not always easy to find organic fruit and veg­eta­bles. If you are work­ing to a bud­get its not always prac­ti­cal to buy organic food all the time. Mind­ful Mum lists the least offend­ing fruit and veg­eta­bles when it comes to pes­ti­cide residues found by the UK Gov­ern­ment and assessed by the Pes­ti­cide Action Net­work (PAN UK).

Among the many valu­able ser­vices PAN UK  pro­vides is the Pes­ti­cides On A Plate guide which looks at the issue of pes­ti­cides in our food chain. Since 2005 PAN UK has used the Government’s Pes­ti­cide Residue Com­mit­tee quar­terly reports for mon­i­tor­ing pes­ti­cides food from­re­tail­ers in the UK. In 2006 approx­i­mately 40 dif­fer­ent foods were tested with a total of 3,562 sam­ples analysed.

Of the non-organic veg­eta­bles from UK tested , these had the low­est pes­ti­cide load and there­fore are the safest non-organic grown crops to con­sume from the stand­point of pes­ti­cide contamination:

  • Cau­li­flower (116 sam­ples — 0% pes­ti­cide residue)
  • Corn baby & on cob (49 sam­ples — 0% pes­ti­cide residue)
  • Mar­row (59 sam­ples — 0% pes­ti­cide residue)

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Fruit and Vegetables To Buy Organic For Baby

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Top-10-Organic-Foods-To-BuyPureed fruit and veg­eta­bles are best for wean­ing baby on to solids.  Mind­ful Mum lists the most impor­tant items to buy organic, based on the pes­ti­cide residues of fruit and veg­eta­bles sam­pled in the UK by the Gov­ern­ment and assessed by the Pes­ti­cide Action Net­work (PAN UK).

Among the many valu­able ser­vices PAN UK  pro­vides is the Pes­ti­cides On A Plate guide which looks at the issue of pes­ti­cides in our food chain. Since 2005 PAN UK has used the Government’s Pes­ti­cide Residue Com­mit­tee quar­terly reports for mon­i­tor­ing pes­ti­cides food from retail­ers in the UK. In 2006 approx­i­mately 40 dif­fer­ent foods were tested with a total of 3,562 sam­ples analysed.

Of the non-organic fruit and veg­eta­bles from UK tested , these had the high­est pes­ti­cide load, mak­ing them the most impor­tant to buy organic ver­sions — or to grow organ­i­cally yourself:

  • Soft Cit­rus, e.g. man­darins (167 sam­ples — 100% had pes­ti­cide residues)
  • Cit­rus e.g. oranges, lemons & limes (512 sam­ples — 91% had pes­ti­cide residues)
  • Pears (1066 sam­ples — 76% had pes­ti­cide residues)

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