Statistics show that the popularity of organic baby food is on the up and up.
General reports in the press seem to add weight to this argument in that many questions are being raised about the contents and additives being added to our food nowadays.
So why do people consider the use of organic products?
The whole concept of eating organically is nothing new in fact.
Searching back over the past few decades will reveal that before chemicals became popular in use then everything was organic.
In simple terms anything that is non organic has had unatural additives added to it to improve growth or size.
The wholesale use of pesticides and other performance enhancing chemicals is something that has been developed fairly recently.
The cynical amongst us say that in order to make production profitable and to keep efficient enough to meet the increasing demands and pressures place on producers by supermarkets and their shareholders, pesticides and chemicals have become a must have.
This happens despite concerns raised by the medical profession.
When you transfer this thinking to babies and their delicate systems you can see why many parents are taking time to investigate the organic baby food ranges that their local supermarket has to offer.
Remember though that other products can affect the health of your baby consider the other products it comes into contact with.
This brings into question the chemicals used in the production of the cotton for their clothes, bedding, bath products and skin care.
All of this sounds horrific and it is but it is something that the ordinary consumer can do a lot about – the so called voting by your feet method.
The best way of showing producers what is preferred is to choose organic baby food and other natural products, do this and they will produce more of those varieties.
Virginia Louise operates a free organic food article site to send out the word about the benefits of organic food.