FAQs

Most babies are ready for solids from 4 to 6 months old remember all babies are different. Always talk to a health professional before starting solids. The Green Monkey™ pouches are most suitable as a first food from around six months of age.

Green Monkey™ vegetable recipe pouches are great for all ages, adults too, use as a pasta sauce, alongside meats, or as a base for soups etc.

The fruit recipe pouches are a GREAT healthy school lunch snack, or used in a smoothie or even on your muesli for breakfast.

There is no need for us to use preservatives in the Green Monkey™ pouches, the way we pressure cook the food inside a muliti layer pouch seals in the freshness without the use of additives or preservatives.

However, once opened the contents of the pouch must be stored in the fridge and used within 2 days.

Green Monkey™ is perfect for children with allergies, it has nothing else added apart from organic fruit and vegetables. We have not added in any bulking agents and our recipes are listed to add up to 100% unlike many other brands. You can supplement our baby food by adding the likes of gluten free pasta or organic rice. You can add any foods that you know your baby can safely eat that would compliment our existing recipes.

You are not alone; some toddlers are fussy every day, others just sometimes. You can mix our vegetable purees in the food they do eat, as a dipping sauce, on a pizza base or even over instant noodles. We also recommend you mix fruit and vegetables together over a period of time and gradually reduce the fruit. Fruit is naturally sweet making it more palatable to even the fussiest of toddlers. Remember to try and make food bright and fun for them.

For any other questions you may have, be it:

• starting your baby on solids,
• our Green Monkey™ baby foods
• or just a general question

please feel free to email us.

Green Monkey™ is the only baby food in the world currently using ONLY organic New Zealand ingredients. New Zealand’s environment is pristine and has perfect growing conditions for growing pure produce and has incredibly high food quality safety standards.

In many commercial baby foods water is the main ingredient and it is bulked up with modified corn starch and maize thickeners. Green Monkey™ is just like your own home cooked meals packed into a really convenient, super portable pouch. We always list our ingredients in total to add up to 100%, solving the guesswork of what the contents are.

Green Monkey™ has more vegetables and fruits in our recipes. Some other baby food’s, for example Banana Custard, the main ingredients are Water, Skim Milk, Sugar, Ground Maize, Maize Thickener (1422) Unsalted Butter and then 1.5% Banana. Whose product do you think is MORE NATURAL?

The Green Monkey™ pouch system pressure cooks the organic ingredients quickly to ensure the fresh tastes and vivid colours are retained and so the essential nutrients are not destroyed. Green Monkey™ does not add processed sugars, salt, thickeners, processing aids or fillers, we simply don’t interfere with what nature had intended.

Our very clever and world class packaging technology enables the Green Monkey™ pouch system to store a fresh and delicious product without additives and preservatives. The tailor made multiple layer pouch is cooked with a gentle pressure cooking process. Such sophisticated processing technology enables us to achieve the highest of standards in organic baby food manufacturing here in New Zealand.

The factory making our baby food product has a comprehensive Risk Management Program (RMP) in place. It also holds a USFDA certificate, has a registered HACCP program and is Asurequality Certified Organic.

Just click on the BUY NOW button and add your quantities to the order form. What could be more simple? Or, you can visit one of our stockists. Contact us for a stockist near you.

Taste

Green Monkey™ Organic Baby Food as a ‘first’ food will help babies and toddlers to become more open to tasting new natural flavours and foods. We don’t water our product down or bulk it up with maize thickener or modified corn starch, it is made up of organic fruit and vegetables which means it just tastes better. Try it!

Organic

There are absolutely no pesticide residues on our fruit and vegetables, being locally grown also means our produce has NOT been fumigated.

Local

Our certified organic produce is entirely sourced from our passionate New Zealand organic farmers and is all grown in New Zealand soil.

Commitment to the planet

Our aim is to leave the world better than when we found it, we always use local ingredients, we use packaging that is lighter to transport and creates less land fill.

Organic fruit and vegetables are grown without the use of synthetic chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Green Monkey™ baby food is made using 100% New Zealand Organic ingredients and made in a facility that is certified to meet strict world class food safety standards.

The long-term health effects of pesticide exposure to humans are not fully known. What we do know is that children who eat organically grown foods are exposed to fewer pesticides than children who do not.

Not only do organically grown foods provide the benefit of ingesting less pesticides, they can also be more nutritious! Studies show that organic fruits and vegetables have higher levels of antioxidants than conventionally grown produce. Giving your baby fresh and delicious foods will help them learn to enjoy healthy eating now and in the future.

To many people, the main reason to eat organically grown and processed food is to support sustainable farming methods that are more friendly to our planet earth. Organic methods include crop rotation, composting, and the use of insects and natural substances to control pests that may otherwise damage crops. Organic farms have less top-soil loss and generate less pollution than conventional farms reducing our carbon footprint and helping us all be greener monkeys.