Get Your Toddler To Love Fruits & Veggies With Plum Organics

The Grow Well line

If only parents now-a-days could have “The Jetsons’” automatic meals or food pills to help convince their toddlers to try new fruits and vegetables. Or, if only the food pills didn’t cause indigestion. But, it’s not 1962, and “The Jetsons” aren’t real so parents are still facing the trouble of introducing their babies and toddlers to healthy foods.

In an effort to help babies and toddlers develop a palate for wholesome fruits and vegetables, Plum Organics recently introduced two new product lines that can parents incorporate fruits and vegetables like pomegranates, kale, and parsnips into their baby’s or toddler’s diets: The Grow Well line and the Mighty Veggie line.

Plum’s pediatric advisor, Dr. Alan Greene, stresses the importance of incorporating more fruits and vegetables into your growing child’s diet.

“In the United States, most children are picky and will refuse to eat certain foods,” Greene says. “Parents want to feed their child something so they give them a salty snack or sweet, which is the normal response… But, children are not lacking in calories, they are lacking in vegetables, fibers, and omega-3s.”

As a result, Plum Organics released four new Grow Well baby products that are geared towards helping a baby’s development from four months to one year. Each of the Grow Well pouches contains a combination of fruits and veggies that will help with your baby’s bone health, muscle health, tummy health or DHA.

“There needs to be a paradigm shift,” Greene explains. “Right now, parents are giving their children foods that they will like. But, with babies, you need to give them foods that will teach them what to like. It is a simple fix.”

In addition to the new line for babies, Plum Organics also released a new line for toddlers aged one to three called Mighty Veggie. The new line has three new flavor pouches that have a full serving of vegetables in each pouch. The line aims to expose picky eaters to new vegetables in a familiar form.

“The notoriously picky eater phase is deeply biologically based” Greene says. “Toddlers develop a fear of new food sources, new flavors, and textures. They have a fight or flight response… To overcome that neophobia, we need to build trust. If a source is familiar and the flavor is palatable, you can get them to try these new flavors.”

Greene said that the pouches are a trustworthy source for toddlers, especially since so many baby foods are sold in pouches these days. Introducing a wide range of fruits and veggies to babies between the time period where they are first sitting up and walking is the best way to avoid a toddler’s unfamiliarity with healthy fruits and veggies.

Plum’s new products aim to help parents avoid the picky eater phase or make it more manageable. From mangos to zucchini, your children are to go bananas for healthy fruits and vegetables, thanks to Plum Organics!

To learn more, visit plumorganics.com!