Question by : What kind of yogurt can I buy to feed my 7 month old baby?
I want to go organic if I can for the yogurt. I know it’s plain yogurt but I need a brand I am living in Canada. I did research and it says yogurt that doesn’t contain RGBH hormones. Also % on the yogurt too??
Thanks this is my first child <3
Best answer:
Answer by Ethel
Stonyfield Yobaby is, you want whole milk yogurt.
What do you think? Answer below!
Yo-baby yogurt(by Stonyfield). It’s made with whole milk vs skim like the regular adult versions of yogurt. At this age they need the added fat for brain development. And it is also organic.
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K….. It ‘may’ be true that there isn’t much difference between non organic foods and organic. But this is what she wants her child to have. Also, as far as the fat content,this is by far the best option for a child of this age.
A difference of opinion on yogurt does not constitute someone else being stupid or ignorant. This site is meant to give helpful advice. Not be condescending just because we may differ.
Yeah, uh, buy yoghurt. You don’t need a brand; buy whatever kind your family enjoys. We like Astro and Liberté.
Check the ingredients; avoid low-fat brands that have dumped in cornstarch/tapioca/gelatin to thicken them; real yoghurt does not require thickeners. Plenty of brands make crummy low-fat yoghurts and decent full-fat plain; knowing of a yoghurt brand name is not going to help you, but the higher-fat stuff from Liberté/Astro are reliable.
I would not bother with organic –
“Organic food ‘no healthier’ than conventional produce, reveals watchdog”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1203015/Organic-food-nutritional-health-benefits-reveals-food-watchdog.html
– and, as you know, Canadian dairy doesn’t have rBGH, period.
…okay, let’s not be stupid enough to fall for advertising. There are plenty of yoghurts not marketed for babies that are higher fat than the baby junk, and the YoBaby stuff has more sugar than fruit. Avoid the marketed-to-baby swindles, buy plain, add your own fruit. The Gerber is even junkier than the YoBaby.
YoBaby “Vanilla” Cdn ingredient list:
“INGREDIENTS: Organic skim milk, organic vanilla preparation (cane sugar*, water, vanilla flavour*, locust bean gum*, concentrated lemon juice*, fruit pectin, calcium citrate, sodium citrate), organic cream, organic skim milk powder, organic milk protein concentrate, five active bacterial cultures**, vitamin D.”
Skim milk…”milk protein concentrate” and pectin and skim milk powder added to thicken it because they were too cheap to use full-fat milk. Lots of sugar. Vanilla flavour instead of real vanilla. Cream only way down on the list. Wake up, mommies…
Forgot about Olympic. Their “Krema” stuff is delicious. Here, for comparison with the YoBaby junk, is the ingredient listing for for Olympic Krema vanilla:
“INGREDIENTS:
Milk, cream, skim milk powder, sugar, natural vanilla flavour, active bacterial culture.”
And for the plain:
“INGREDIENTS:
A pasteurized, homogenized culture dairy product containing 11% butterfat.”
“Also, as far as the fat content,this is by far the best option for a child of this age”
I do not know why this needs to be clarified, but, this is solely the view of the people pushing “baby yoghurts.” Normal healthy babies still nursing/bottle-feeding do not need any sort of enhanced foods — that toddlers should not rely on low-fat milk as a staple of their diet does not mean that babies will derive magical benefit from dairy fat; if this were true people would be feeding babies pats of butter — AND the “baby yoghurts” ARE NOT PARTICULARLY HIGH IN FAT. “Made from whole milk” (not always true, note ingredient listing) does not mean that a particular yoghurt is particularly high in fat, just that it is not fat-free. The plain Olympic Krema, at 11%, the Liberté 10%, and the Astro 6% are all much better choices with higher fat levels and fewer ingredients.
Idk about organic but I startedgiving my daughter the gerber (I think that who makes it) yogurt in the babyfood section she loved it and its specifically for babies and they have a lot of flavors and are not expensive and come with 4. My daughter is now 13 months and eats 2 containers everytime cuz she loves it.
I buy full fat (3.5% i think) Olympic organic in BC.