Handmade baby foods vs. commercially produced, store bought baby food
distinguish food from the food catering for babies to commercial plant food for infants and young children follows:
Individuals and production
Food for children from the people who are committed quality products for babies. At least one certified chef on duty in the oversight of the process and ensure that an ingredient in cooking and standards. The food is in a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen, as used by the best chefs.
Commercial baby foods are produced en masse in a factory or a co-packing. More often than not, food for the children not only food produced in the factory. Normally based foods do for infants of employees who no culinary training and no passion and commitment to quality food for infants.
Hand selected components
Each ingredient in food for infants until the last berry is selected by hand to ensure that it is of the highest quality and make sure that it is fully ripe.
Commercial baby food is made of solid bulk cargo delivery of goods, the loading docks comes. Food passes quickly by workers on the conveyor belt beltsthere is little time for manual control.
Source and quality of
Most of the ingredients in baby foods are grown. They are harvested only when mature and move from field to our kitchen in a few days, sometimes hours.
If eligible for the production of commercial baby food from many sources and many countries. Often this is an opportunity to mature to withstand long distance transport from field to factory. Sometimes produce is ripe or spoiled, and sits on the trucks, warehouses, loading docks or for days or weeks.
Organic
With only 100% organic ingredients that are not near other non-organic ingredients produced or stored alongside non-organic food.
Even foods that are made with organic ingredients are contaminated with pesticides, they are transported or stored or produced in the vicinity of the non-biological ingredients or in a facility that also non-organic foods. Commercial baby food is often in large factories or co-packers, who do not produce, organic foods.
Washing
All products in the production of foodstuffs used for your baby or removed to be washed by hand.
In the commercial baby food company, the products are either gone, as it passes under the spray on the belt or may be entitled, in a tub of water for cleaning sit be washed. Often this process include the cleaning and chemicals.
Preparation
Total production in the production of baby food, your use peeled, cored, diced or manually. This ensures that the second term monitoring before cooking.
Used for the production of commercial baby food, peeled, cut and processed by machines in large quantities. Seeds, stalks, rotten place, etc. can simply looked up and could be included in the final product.
Cooking
Most meals for children with products that have reduced gently to ensure that the vitamins and nutrients do not “cooked food”. This process also helps food retain its natural color. Some foods are baked or fried, to ensure that the natural juices are retained.
Commercial baby food is cooked in large vats or cooked quickly giant, super-heated furnaces. Both processes have to be produced in a short time such large quantities at a time to be cooked. Food must be cooked at temperatures high enough to sterilize them to sit in a warehouse or on a shelf in a store over a long period of time. Important nutrients and natural colors lost. Vitamins and color should be added back to foods. This will be accomplished through the use of synthetic material or fruit, vegetables, concentrates, or dyes. Some food colors to the world of insects.
Processing
Your baby food in small batches puree, which are weighed and measured manually. Each batch is checked and rechecked to ensure a smooth and creamy.
Commercial baby food is a large area of industrial vats. Sometimes tons of food will be processed simultaneously.
Texture
Add a small amount of distilled water to enough to allow a smooth puree foodjust. Since this is a small amount of water, there is no need to add thickeners.
A lot of water is the commercial baby foods, added: “thin it out.” This allows us to get more food for babies, with every pound of product (water is cheap), and thus to increase corporate profits, while the food is cheating children. Thickeners such as starch, added (strength is too low). Thickener and stabilizer hold “food factory complex mixtures of oils, water, acids and solids, and mixed.
Quality control
At any point in the process of cooking and pureeing food temperatures are checked and rechecked to correct temperature and consistency is assured achieved. The temperature will ensure during cooking to ensure that the necessary vitamins and minerals are not monitored “cooked out”, and how the food is refrigerated to prevent pathogen growth.
The bulk of production is often controlled by computers, not people.
Packaging
Baby food is packed by the person so that a final quality control.
Commercial baby foods are packaged by the big machines that squirt monitored food in jars and containers with no one the process.
Fresh, no preservatives
Your stores / kitchen / etc fresh products for infants add daily. Only make enough food to meet the demand for the current week. Baby food sold or supplied to customers within 24-48 hours of submission. There is no need to add preservatives and discarded food.
Commercial baby food in bulk. Tens of thousands of “units” of baby food produced every day. Commercial baby food may sit in a warehouse or on a shelf in the store for up to two years. Companies need to keep and add a chemical or natural preservatives to food from degrading. Deep-frozen products for babies at the grocery store in the freezer for months to sit before it is sold.