Child Obesity

Child Obesity -

Nutritionally-inferior, refined foods contribute to many of today's health problems, including obesity. So why train your baby to want it?

At Green Monkey we believe one of the reasons that we do have such a large obesity problem in New Zealand is that a large number of babies at “solid stage” are being fed mass-produced over processed food - their taste buds are trained to crave that type of food exacerbating the obesity and health related problems.

It is true that commercial baby food is convenient, but the price tag for convenience is costly. Besides paying companies to blenderize food and put it in jars, you also pay them to dilute the food with water and add starchy fillers such as tapioca, rice flour and modified corn starch.

Some manufacturers add sugar, salt, and corn syrup to the food. Additives not only help with production costs but helps mask off-flavors and give taste to otherwise bland, lifeless food. A jar of banana baby food may contain as little as 1.5% Banana.

At Green Monkey we thought it was obvious, we make frozen organic baby food, it is 100% real food, just like what our parents made for us!

Why can we not promote our healthy baby food in Plunket? Because corporate dollar is more important than the health of our kids!

The Green Monkey Company is an innovative frozen organic baby food company produced in New Zealand. The overall vision of the Green Monkey Company is to raise the standard of food fed to babies. As Green Monkey baby food is ‘frozen’ (as opposed to ‘bottled’ or ‘canned’) it maintains more nutrients, and presents a naturally better aroma, color and flavor. It smells, looks and tastes like “REAL FOOD”.

Nutritionally, the first few years of a child's life are the most important, and child obesity and health is a major concern for parents these days. Research shows that training your toddler's palate to enjoy `real' food early in life also trains their tastes for later; reducing the cravings for fast, low nutritional foods. We know that parents who serve Green Monkey organic baby food as a 'first' food will help babies and toddlers to be more open to tasting new natural flavors and foods.

Because the products are hand-made with 100% NZ produce, Green Monkey offers an excellent healthy product with no fillers, no additives, no preservatives, no colors, no added sugar etc. There is absolutely nothing extra added to our products – Just 100% organic produce of the best and highest quality. Why is organic food so important? What may be tolerated by a mature adult may prove harsh to the immature system of an infant

Scientists now believe eating habits are formed in the first 3 years of life. That’s a 3 year window of opportunity to get kids into healthy eating habits. Start from the very beginning, and take full control of what you are feeding children.

We have not met a single adult who would happily eat a jar of baby food for every meal. Marooning babies in a high chair with a separate over processed meal from a jar paves the way for the 2-year-old "picky eater."

The Green Monkey team strongly believes in education and encouragement. To give your baby the most nutritious and economical food, prepare your own baby food whenever possible, when you are pressed for time, or can not source good produce use the closest thing to homemade. Trust simple whole foods that were grown in the ground not watered down and thickened up by numbers & produced in a factory. Set the standard for healthy eating in your home by serving your baby fresh natural whole foods.

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