| First and foremost, jarred commercial baby food | | | | naturally occurring and thus cannot be |
| carrots (and other jarred commercial baby food | | | | removed!Due to screening, commercial baby |
| vegetables) have nitrates too! Even jarred organic | | | | foods may contain a lower level of nitrates than |
| carrot baby foods have nitrates. Commercial baby | | | | homemade as parents do not have the ability to |
| food companies will tell you that they SCREEN for | | | | screen veggies for nitrates. Please keep in mind |
| nitrate levels, not that they remove nitrates. This | | | | that baby food companies voluntarily screen for |
| means that they may buy veggies that are | | | | levels of nitrate and there is no Federal (U.S.) |
| grown in a part of the country where the nitrate | | | | regulation or mandate requiring them to screen. |
| contamination of soil is lower, where the sun | | | | You see, nitrates are naturally occuring in the |
| shines more or where Farmer's do not use high | | | | vegetable itself and not even the folks at Gerber |
| levels of nitrogen containing fertilizers. Nitrates are | | | | Beechnut/Heinz et al. can remove nitrates. |