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itsbabytime
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For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Not sure if it matters to anyone but I just wanted to let everyone know that I called the company to see where they get all the products that they are using in the food. I usually make my own food but sometimes use the jarred fruits to mix with yogurt and cereal. Anyway, with everything you hear nowadays with stuff from China - the toys, the chocolate and the milk etc. I just wanted to be sure. Well the Ascorbic Acid that is in most of the food (and all of the fruit) is made in china as is any of the other stuff - citric acid etc. that they use to preserve the food. Just wanted to share since when you are buying Organic you are paying $$$ b/c you think everything is 100% good - but, these days with China I feel like nothing is 100%.
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Good to know, thanks for the info!
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| Posted 11/10/08 7:03 PM |
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Janice
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
wow...I had no idea. thanks
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| Posted 11/10/08 7:10 PM |
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Nic3
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Thanks for that info - I would never have thought to wonder where their stuff comes from! I always used them with my older girls, and liked that they are a Long Island-based company.
China's products concern me, too. I am glad the company was forthcoming about that.
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| Posted 11/10/08 7:27 PM |
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wannabemom
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
you're kidding me  
seriously, I'm beginning to think it's impossible to avoid chinese ingredients unless you make everything from scratch with organic produce 
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| Posted 11/10/08 7:31 PM |
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Posted by wannabemom
you're kidding me
seriously, I'm beginning to think it's impossible to avoid chinese ingredients unless you make everything from scratch with organic produce
I am
I am definitely going back to making from scratch with this baby again.
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| Posted 11/10/08 7:33 PM |
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wannabemom
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Posted by MsMBV
Posted by wannabemom
you're kidding me
seriously, I'm beginning to think it's impossible to avoid chinese ingredients unless you make everything from scratch with organic produce
I am
I am definitely going back to making from scratch with this baby again.
that's what I intend to do too... but I DID plan to buy some organic food bottles for the diaper bag..... guess I have to micromanage my selections 
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| Posted 11/10/08 7:35 PM |
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Posted by wannabemom
Posted by MsMBV
I am definitely going back to making from scratch with this baby again.
that's what I intend to do too... but I DID plan to buy some organic food bottles for the diaper bag..... guess I have to micromanage my selections
When I was home I cooked, but I did get the jars for when he went to daycare.
I wonder if any of the ingredients in the cereals are from China too. 
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| Posted 11/10/08 7:40 PM |
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wannabemom
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
I think the most worrysome things from china right now are proteins.... because they cheat and use cheaper sources, or worse use melamine to trick the protein concentration test done during QC.
I'm hoping ascorbic acid is ok 
not to make everyone paranoid, but this thread makes me wonder where the heck all the ingredients in our vitamins were made 
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| Posted 11/10/08 7:43 PM |
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Wow...thanks for the info!
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| Posted 11/10/08 7:45 PM |
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itsbabytime
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Posted by wannabemom
you're kidding me
seriously, I'm beginning to think it's impossible to avoid chinese ingredients unless you make everything from scratch with organic produce
Yeah but with that you never even know what is going on where it is grown - where the products used in the growing process are from etc and how it is handles en route to the stores - I was discussing this with my mom b/c she is the one that made me call ( I would have never thought of it) and i was saying how do we know we are any better off with the organic fruits, veggies and meats?
ETA: Also, my mom told the woman she spoke to that this would affect her decision to buy earth's best products. More people should call! Maybe they will get USA made ascorbic acid!
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
here's their contact website
earth's best
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| Posted 11/10/08 8:57 PM |
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
I haven't even bought their products often but I just e-mailed them about how disheartened I am about their decision to purchase ingredients from China. I told them I won't be purchasing their products anymore & that I am going to be making my *mommy* friends aware of the situation.
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| Posted 11/10/08 9:21 PM |
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Honestly, even though I am a big worrywart about a lot of things, I can't say this has caused me to panic. As much as I'd LIKE my child to never come in contact with Chinese-made ingredients, what are the odds of that really happening? The components of DC's formula might have been sourced from China. Of course there's breastmilk, but how likely is it that *I* am not ingesting any Chinese-sourced ingredients myself, where I might pass the contaminants along to DC. To ensure this I would have to subsist on a 100% unprocessed whole-foods diet and not consume anything with an actual ingredient list. And even if I did this, like a previous poster said, we can't even guarantee the source of the ingredients that make up our *vitamins*!
Earlier this year it was the plastic bottles. Now it is this. It's just the sucky state of things, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
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| Posted 11/10/08 10:00 PM |
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itsbabytime
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Posted by computergirl
Honestly, even though I am a big worrywart about a lot of things, I can't say this has caused me to panic. As much as I'd LIKE my child to never come in contact with Chinese-made ingredients, what are the odds of that really happening? The components of DC's formula might have been sourced from China. Of course there's breastmilk, but how likely is it that *I* am not ingesting any Chinese-sourced ingredients myself, where I might pass the contaminants along to DC. To ensure this I would have to subsist on a 100% unprocessed whole-foods diet and not consume anything with an actual ingredient list. And even if I did this, like a previous poster said, we can't even guarantee the source of the ingredients that make up our *vitamins*!
Earlier this year it was the plastic bottles. Now it is this. It's just the sucky state of things, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
I hear ya - and b/v me I'm def. not losing sleep over it! It just really irked me, I mean COME ON - how hard coud it be to get Ascorbic Acid in the USA. This organic baby food is NOT cheap - I'm sure they could fork over the extra penny it would cost them!
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
NOT HAPPY to hear about this!!!
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hope07
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Not happy about this!
Has anyone found "safer" organic baby food with NO ingredients from china??
edited to add...
Just called and they said the only product that uses the asorbic acid (from china) is the apple sauce dont know if this is true...
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Corinne
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
does gerbers tender harvest use ascorbic acid from china?
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Posted by computergirl
Honestly, even though I am a big worrywart about a lot of things, I can't say this has caused me to panic. As much as I'd LIKE my child to never come in contact with Chinese-made ingredients, what are the odds of that really happening? The components of DC's formula might have been sourced from China. Of course there's breastmilk, but how likely is it that *I* am not ingesting any Chinese-sourced ingredients myself, where I might pass the contaminants along to DC. To ensure this I would have to subsist on a 100% unprocessed whole-foods diet and not consume anything with an actual ingredient list. And even if I did this, like a previous poster said, we can't even guarantee the source of the ingredients that make up our *vitamins*!
Earlier this year it was the plastic bottles. Now it is this. It's just the sucky state of things, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
I agree. Its soo hard these days as soon as you think you covered one base with this stuff , then another topic pops up and its getting impossible to avoid everything. Ideally i would love to do nothing but pure for my children but just too hard.. and no clue really where to start. Once you think you narrowed it down, you find out in further research its not what you were thinking at all.. I just want to b/c I feel like we just cant win.
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
I sent them an email telling them how disappointed I am that they would continue to use anything from China and letting them know I will be returning everything I purchased yesterday (which was alot).
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itsbabytime
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Posted by hope07
Not happy about this!
Has anyone found "safer" organic baby food with NO ingredients from china??
edited to add...
Just called and they said the only product that uses the asorbic acid (from china) is the apple sauce dont know if this is true...
I was told that all of the ascorbic acid they use is from China. All the Stage 2 fruits I have seen use this. I dont really buy any of the other stuff so not sure what else.
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itsbabytime
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
Posted by Corinne
this is the response I got:
It is true
All ascorbic acid is sourced from China
That has nothing to do with the quality of our baby food maufactured in
the US with locally sourced produce.
Hmmm, I think it sort of does. You buy organic b/c you want it to be as free as possible of all the "junk" that is in everything else - then they add to the food the ascorbic acid from china and who knows how that is produced and this is consumed with the locally sourced produce SO, I am not sure how they can separate one from the other since the child eating the food is eating BOTH!
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| Posted 11/11/08 4:42 PM |
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Re: For mom's that use Earth's Best Organic Baby Food...
I just emailed them.. to tell them I will not be purchasing their baby food!! Thanks for the info!
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