Beech Nut Baby Food
At Beech-Nut®, we love being in the same small town that we’ve been in for over 100 years. We love that generations of the same families work together here. And we love taking extra care to make delicious and nutritious baby food, just like you would.
In 1891 we started as a family business, smoking ham and bacon in Canajoharie, New York. It’s the same town we call home today. The next product we produced was grape jam, which was based on a family recipe of one of the company’s founders. Over the past century, we’ve made many additional food items including coffee, peanut butter and macaroni. In 1931 we started making our delicious baby food, and now that’s all we do.
Today we make more than 150 baby foods formulated to supplement your baby's diet of breast milk or formula. We don’t add sugar, salt or harsh spices to our recipes because we believe your baby doesn’t need those unnecessary additives. What your baby does need is the healthiest, leading-edge nutrition possible. And that’s why we are constantly developing innovative products like our Beech-Nut Stage 2® DHA plus+™.
Over 75 Years of Historic Firsts
At Beech-Nut®, we’re proud of our rich history and all that we’ve done for parents and babies. In 1931, we were the first company to put baby food in glass jars when everyone else was using lead-soldered metal cans. And we’ve enjoyed many other breakthroughs since then.
"We are working constantly to develop innovative new products packed full of the healthiest, leading-edge nutrition,” says Christoph Rudolf, President and CEO of Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation. "We make products we are proud to put on the market, so you can be proud to put them on your table.”
We entered the baby food industry in 1931 with 13 varieties of strained baby food. The clear, colorless flint glass jars we use replaced the earlier, unappealing green glass jars and have remained an industry standard since. Because our scientists have always strived to make the best products, they patented the first vacuum jar to keep food fresh for longer periods of time.
In 1977, we had another historic first when we became the first baby food company to remove added salt from our product line. Chemically modified starch was removed in 1985, and by 1997, all of our products were also free of added refined sugar. Today, we remain the only major baby food line free of added sugar.
We were also the first company to offer age-specific varieties and ingredients. In 1984, we launched Beech-Nut Stages® Baby Food, designed to help parents follow the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) feeding guidelines.
In 2002, we launched the first baby food with DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). And in 2007, we reformulated our recipe. We now offer Beech-Nut Stage 2® DHA plus+ baby foods, a full line of varieties with DHA to support babies’ brain and eye development, plus the added benefit of a prebiotic to support their digestive health. DHA, found naturally in breast milk, is recognized by pediatric and nutrition experts worldwide as an important building block of the central nervous system. Research has also shown that it support babies’ mental and visual development.
Beech-Nut Good Morning and Good Evening was developed so babies get the perfect start and finish to their day. For more information about Beech-Nut Good Morning and Good Evening, as well as about the prebiotics and whey protein found in Beech-Nut Good Evening, click here.
Also in 2007, Beech-Nut became the first baby food company and one of a few food companies in North America to achieve ISO certification. ISO 9001:2000 is a set of widely respected, strict international standards for quality management and quality assurance. This certification further strengthens our commitment to provide innovative products with leading-edge nutrition to infants and toddlers.