Right now, there is a global obesity epidemic with more than 1.9 billion adults who are overweight, according to 2016 data from the WHO. Feeding off this issue are children, who are adopting bad food habits from those they look up to.
In the United States alone, there were roughly 14.4 million obese children and adolescents in 2017-2018, according to the CDC. Most shockingly, obesity prevalence was 13.4% among 2- to 5-year-olds.
Aiming to combat this issue from the ground up is a startup company called Tiny Organics. Founded in 2020, Tiny delivers a variety of plant-based baby foods straight to a parent’s residence at an affordable cost.
“At Tiny, we’re on a mission to shape the palates of a generation to prefer and love organic vegetables from the earliest days, ensuring children grow up to live their healthiest, happiest lives and prevent chronic diseases later in life,” reads the company’s website.
Created by their executive chef and a team of in-house neonatal nutritionists and pediatric experts, Tiny’s USDA-certified organic and ready-to-eat baby foods are free from GMOs and the Big-8 allergens which include milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soybean. Their baby food also doesn’t have any added sugar or salt.
Some menu items offered by Tiny that your little one may enjoy are “More Broccoli Please” with broccoli, sweet potato, and chickpeas, “Oh The Pasta-bilities” with zucchini, peas, and green lentil rotini, “Go Goji Power Pear” with oats, pear, and goji berry, and “I Think Therefore I Yam” with yam, chickpeas, garlic, and cilantro.
All images in this article are courtesy of Tiny Organics.
