Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food

Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food

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Contaminants · 13

From lab tests of this product’s family

Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potato Puree

This product wasn’t tested · results may differ

In the family’s tests: measured by an independent lab and compared against published safety limits.

Arsenic6.93 ppbof 10 ppb

69% of the limitFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.010 mg/L (= EPA MCL)

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

Lead1.65 ppbof 5 ppb

33% of the limitFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

Inorganic Arsenic5.91 ppbfound

Detected · no published limit

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

1h,1h,2h,2h-perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (6:2 Fts)NDnone found

Not detected

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

Bisphenol a (BPA)NDof 1 ppb

Not detectedEU Reg. (EU) 2024/3190 — BPA banned in food-contact materials from 20 Jan 2025 (old 0.05 mg/kg SML repealed); the residual exemptions require NO detectable migration at a 1 ug/kg detection limit. 1 ppb is therefore the tightest published number.

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

CadmiumNDof 5 ppb

Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

Di (2-ethylhexyl) TerephthalateNDof 60 ppm

Not detectedEU food-contact plastics, Reg. (EU) 10/2011 — DEHT (FCM 798) SML 60 mg/kg, group restriction with DINCH. No tighter published limit exists (EFSA TDI 1 mg/kg bw/day).

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

Di(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate (DEHP)NDof 6 ppb

Not detectedUS EPA drinking-water MCL, 40 CFR 141.61(c) — 0.006 mg/L. Applied to all foods as the TIGHTEST published DEHP number; the EU food-contact limit is looser (Reg. (EU) 10/2011 as amended by 2023/1442: SML 0.6 mg/kg, plus the 0.6 mg/kg DEHP-equivalent group limit with DBP/BBP/DIBP).

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

Dibutyl PhthalateNDof 120 ppb

Not detectedEU food-contact plastics, Reg. (EU) 10/2011 as amended by 2023/1442 — DBP SML 0.12 mg/kg (cut from 0.3). Also inside the 0.6 mg/kg DEHP-equivalent group limit (DBP x5).

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

Diethylhexyl AdipateNDof 18 ppm

Not detectedEU food-contact plastics, Reg. (EU) 10/2011 — DEHA (FCM 207) SML 18 mg/kg.

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

Diisobutyl PhthalateNDof 150 ppb

Not detectedEU food-contact plastics, Reg. (EU) 2023/1442 group restriction — DBP x5 + DIBP x4 + BBP x0.1 + DEHP <= 0.6 mg/kg DEHP-equivalents, so DIBP alone may not exceed 0.15 mg/kg. DIBP is not itself an authorised substance.

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

DimethylphthalateNDof 10 ppb

Not detectedDMP is not on the EU Union list of substances authorised in food-contact plastics (Reg. (EU) 10/2011 Annex I), so no migration is permitted. Set at 0.01 mg/kg, the detection limit 10/2011 uses for not-detectable (ND) restrictions.

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

MercuryNDof 2 ppb

Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.002 mg/L

Measured in: Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree

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Common questions

Is Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food healthy?

Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food scores 34/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in, plus lab results from its product family, Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potato Puree. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food?

Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food lists 4 ingredients, starting with Organic Apple Puree Concentrate, Water, Organic Sweet Potato Puree and Citric Acid. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food?

Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food is NOVA group 3: processed, but not ultra-processed. NOVA runs 1 to 4, where 1 is whole food and 4 is ultra-processed.

How does Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food compare to other baby food & purees?

At 34/100 Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food scores worse than most baby food & purees we have scored. A higher-scoring option in baby food & purees is Beech-Nut Organics Just Apples, Stage 1 at 100/100.

Is Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food organic?

Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food is not certified organic in our data.

Has Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food been lab tested?

Not this product itself. It shares a base recipe (Organic apple puree concentrate, water, organic sweet potato puree, citric acid) with the other products in its family, Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potato Puree, and 1 product in its family has been lab tested. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Those results are in the family's Contaminants section above; its own results may differ.

Does Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food contain heavy metals?

Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food itself has not been tested for heavy metals, but other products in its family, which share its base recipe, have: a lab detected arsenic at 6.93 ppb against a 10 ppb limit in Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree, inorganic arsenic at 5.91 ppb in Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree and lead at 1.65 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Earth's Best Organic Apple Sweet Potato fruit + veggie puree. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Its own results may differ.

Does Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food contain phthalates?

Earth's Best Apple Sweet Potatoe Baby Food itself has not been tested for phthalates, but other products in its family, which share its base recipe, have: a lab tested them for DEHP, dibutyl phthalate, diisobutyl phthalate and dimethylphthalate and found none above its detection limit. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Its own results may differ.

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