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Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food

1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food

96Clean

Contaminants · 4

From lab tests of this product’s family
Gerber Peas (conventional)
This product wasn’t tested · results may differ

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

Cadmium1 ppbof 5 ppb
20% of the limitFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: Gerber Peas (Sitter)
ArsenicNDof 10 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.010 mg/L (= EPA MCL)
Measured in: Gerber Peas (Sitter)
LeadNDof 5 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: Gerber Peas (Sitter)
MercuryNDof 2 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.002 mg/L
Measured in: Gerber Peas (Sitter)

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Common questions

Is Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food healthy?

Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food scores 96/100 on Tallow — our clean 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, Gerber Peas (conventional). 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 Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food?

Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food lists 2 ingredients, starting with Peas and Water. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea 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 Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food?

Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food is NOVA group 1: unprocessed or minimally processed. NOVA runs 1 to 4, where 1 is whole food and 4 is ultra-processed.

How does Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food compare to other baby food & purees?

At 96/100 Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food sits in our top band, among the better 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 Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food organic?

Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food is not certified organic in our data.

Has Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food been lab tested?

Not this product itself. It shares a base recipe (Conventional peas with water) with the other products in its family, Gerber Peas (conventional), 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 Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea Baby Food contain heavy metals?

Gerber 1st Foods Natural Pea 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 cadmium at 1 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Gerber Peas (Sitter). This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Its own results may differ.

Full methodology: how we score products.

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