Earth’s Best Sesame Street Organic Fruit Yogurt Smoothie - Apple Blueberry

Baby food and drinks

What stands out

Bars show one serving: 1 cup, a standard portion.

Measured in this product
Lab tests of this product found lead: 2.5 ppb in 1 sample. Details
27% of a toddler's daily limit
7% of an adult's daily limit
Measured in this product
Lab tests of this product found arsenic (total): 4.4 ppb in 1 sample. Details

Lab tests2 chemicals measured in this product. See results
RecallsNo barcode on file, so recalls can't be matched to it.
AdditivesNo ingredient list on file.
TypicalFDA's tests of baby food and drinks show what's typical. See levels
Others965 other baby food and drinks products have lab results. Compare them

Lab results for this product

Measured in this product Healthy Babies Bright Futures (2019), via detectlead.com (2019)

Lead: 2.5 ppb (found in 1 of 1, highest 2.5). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 880 mL (3¾ cups) a day of this; an adult at about 3.5 L (14½ cups).
One serving (1 cup, a standard portion):
27% of a toddler's daily limit
7% of an adult's daily limit

FDA action level for lead in baby food: 10 ppb for packaged baby foods for children under 2: fruits, vegetables (except single-ingredient root vegetables), mixtures, yogurts, custards and single-ingredient meats. Source
FDA action level for lead in baby food: 20 ppb for single-ingredient root vegetables and dry infant cereals for children under 2. Source
Among tested products of this kind (ppb, log scale): this one others
789 tested products of this kind: the middle one is 2.57 ppb. This one is higher than about 49% of them.
Arsenic (total): 4.4 ppb (found in 1 of 1, highest 4.4). No US agency limit we can cite.
Among tested products of this kind (ppb, log scale): this one others
864 tested products of this kind: the middle one is 3.8 ppb. This one is higher than about 59% of them.

ppb = parts per billion. "Below the lab's limit" means the lab could not measure it reliably, not that it is absent.

Barcoded products this likely is: Earth's Best Organic Apple Blueberry Organic Fruit Yogurt Smoothie, Apple Blueberry, Earth's Best Organic Apple Blueberry Organic Fruit Yogurt Smoothie, Apple Blueberry (matched by brand and name).

Typical for baby food and drinks

FDA's averages for this kind of food (this product has its own lab results above)

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

Cadmium: typically 10.6 ppb (FDA, 24 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 5.8 kg (13 lb).
Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Baby food, applesauce: found in 0 of 8, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Baby food, carrots: found in 11 of 14, average 7.28, highest 14 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Baby food, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1, all below 4 ppb (2018)
Lead in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1, all below 4 ppb (2018)
Cadmium in Baby food, applesauce: found in 0 of 8, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Baby food, carrots: found in 14 of 14, average 20.4, highest 41 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Baby food, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with water: found in 1 of 1, average 2.1, highest 2.1 ppb (2018)
Cadmium in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1, all below 1 ppb (2018)
Mercury in Baby food, applesauce: found in 0 of 8, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Baby food, carrots: found in 0 of 14, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Baby food, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1, all below 1 ppb (2018)
Mercury in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1, all below 1 ppb (2018)
Arsenic (total) in Baby food, applesauce: found in 0 of 8, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Baby food, carrots: found in 2 of 14, average 0.5, highest 3.5 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Baby food, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1, all below 3 ppb (2018)
Arsenic (total) in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1, all below 3 ppb (2018)
Perchlorate in Baby food, applesauce: found in 0 of 20, all below 1 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Baby food, carrots: found in 19 of 20, average 10.4, highest 74 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Baby food, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared w/ water: found in 14 of 20, average 2.39, highest 24 ppb (2008-2012)

Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.

"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.

Not tested

No published results for this product cover: Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

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