“It’s good to know that olli organic baby foods do not have any chemical preservatives, flavourants or colourants added to them. We never add sugars, salt, thickeners and unnecessary fillers to any of our foods. The only addition occurs during the puréeing process of apple, pear, apricot and peach, where 0.0003 – 0.0004% of Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) is required for the process and 0.0005% of Citric Acid is used in the processing of our guava purée. We are working to adapt our processing so that not even these small amounts will be required during the puréeing of our raw fruit material. We do not add any additional Ascorbic acid or Citric Acid to the bottled product. Because of this the consistency, colour and texture of our product may vary from batch to batch. However, the taste of the product will assure you of its authenticity.

From time to time, due to the specific texture of an ingredient, a small amount of purified water will be added to aid physical processing.”

Remember to always read the ingredients listed on labels. Be on the lookout for ingredients you wouldn’t find in your own kitchen. Additives like maltodextrin, emulsifiers, hydrogenated vegetable fat, citric acid, caseinate, calcium carbonate and demineralised whey may indicate that the food has been heavily processed.

If there is a thickener somewhere on the list, such as modified maize starch, rice starch, wheat starch, gelatine, carob gum, xantham gum, or just ‘thickener’, you have a jar of baby food that does not offer optimum nutrition.

Also look out for unnecessary flavourings, both natural and chemical. There is no such thing as a necessary flavouring for babies, they should only have real foods, so be on the lookout for sugar (sucrose), glucose (dextrose), lactose, fructose, maltose, meat extract, hydrolysed vegetable protein, yeast or yeast extracts, or ‘flavourings’ (natural or not).