We have slowly started to incorporate healthy eating habits in our own lives, but it is usually when we have to find food options for kids that we realize how much our market is lacking. It is just this struggle that has inspired 5 different women to launch their own brands that offer healthy food for kids. Putting away all the chemicals and preservatives, they have made better and tastier options that include ingredients like ragi and millet in all the popular flavors. So, if you have been looking for healthy food for your own children, or your nieces and nephews, here are 5 women-led brands offering a variety of them for you to choose from.
1. Early Foods
Shalini Santosh’s story behind launching her brand, Early Foods, in 2015 also begins with her own experience of not finding good food options for her own child. She offers porridge mixes, ghee ladoos, teething sticks, cookies, rusks, chutney powders and more in her exhaustive catalog of healthy food for kids. If your diet has restrictions against gluten or sugar, you can still find options here at this woman-led brand. Shalini also has items that help provide nutrition to women experiencing stages of childbirth, from pregnancy to breastfeeding. If you are just switching to these food items, you can purchase the trial packs available on the website, which is also where you can purchase all of her products.
Price range- ₹85 to ₹1,540
2. Slurrp Farm
Slurrp Farm was founded by two mothers, Meghana Narayan and Shaurvi Malik, who found that there was a dearth of options when it came to healthy food for kids. An unhealthy diet made up of these foods that have refined wheat flour, too much sugar, and trans fats was becoming a cause for allergies, obesity and other health problems. So, they launched their own brand in 2016, bringing a variety of items like ready-to-eat snacks, pancake batters, and noodles or pastas made of healthier alternatives like ragi and millet. They also offer raw items like flour, natural sweeteners like jaggery powder, and milk mixes. Check out this brand’s website to buy their items.
Price range- ₹30 to ₹599
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3. Timios
Hima Bindu co-founded Timios, a brand of healthy food for kids, with her brother in 2016 and understood the role taste would play when trying to appeal to kids. Including their own children in the feedback process has led to Hima’s son giving her recommendations of the snacks he wants a healthier version of. This woman-led brand offers cereals, chapati mixes, jaggery powder, energy bars, cake mixes and a lot more items ranging from snacks to raw foods, all of which include healthy, organic ingredients. They also offer condiments like different flavors of peanut butter, and date syrup to include all the food categories. Check out their website to buy their products.
Price range- ₹95 to ₹599
4. Tots & Moms
Kavita Prasanth’s Tots & Moms was launched in 2014 after she had to resort to traditional Indian recipes to nourish her preemie child, finding her options to be more harmful with their synthetic content. What started as a social media venture, has turned into a one-stop destination for healthy food for kids and moms alike. Instant mixes like oats khichdi, drink mixes like the one with chocolate and dates, nutrient boosters like dry fruit powder, and healthy snacks like cookies are just a few of the options available here. This woman-led brand also offers raw food materials like natural sweeteners as well. You can place your order on her website.
Price range- ₹200 to ₹415
5. Bebe Burp
When Bebe Burp’s co-founder Shruti Tibrewal found there other mothers looking for options for healthy food for kids, she decided to make the recipes she’d learnt from her mother and grandmother into a brand. Porridge mixes, cookies, puffs, milk mix, and natural sweeteners are the kind of products you can find here at this woman-led brand. If you are planning a trip, they also offer travel packs of their porridge as well. In a collaboration with Masterchef Season 2 finalist Dolcee Bachkaniwala, Bebe Burp also launched a recipe book featuring their products. You will find all of her products available on her website for purchase.
Price range- ₹199 to ₹498
Our diets account more for the most part of our health and it is imperative that we ensure the little ones do not suffer on this account. So, check out these brands that offer innovative healthy food for kids.
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