1927 Gerber® founded by an American couple at 1927 where Dan and Dorothy Gerber started straining peas for their 7-month-old daughter, Sally. Mrs. Gerber saw an opportunity to start straining fruits and vegetables at their canning business, based in Fremont, Michigan and the legacy of Gerber® baby food began.

Ann Turner Cook The model for Smith's original sketch, Ann Turner Cook (1926–2022) grew up to be a mystery novelist and English teacher. Although she avoided publicity for many years, Cook more recently granted interviews to several Florida newspapers.

Gerber Baby Food Found to Contain High Levels of Toxic Metals. Heavy metals like lead, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium are known to be toxic to the human body. Many of them, such as lead and mercury, have been linked explicitly to neurological problems in young children with developing brains.

Gerber was founded in 1927 in Fremont, Michigan, by Daniel Frank Gerber, owner of the Fremont Canning Company, which produced canned fruit and vegetables. At the suggestion of a pediatrician, Gerber's wife, Dorothy, began making hand-strained food for their seven-month-old daughter, Sally.

A contest was held to represent the baby food in an advertising campaign, and artist Dorothy Hope Smith entered a simple charcoal sketch of a tousle-haired baby. The image won the contest, and was so popular that it went on to become the Gerber logo in 1931.

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Ann Turner Cook, the original Gerber baby, died on Friday, June 3 at age 95. The company announced the news on Instagram on Friday, sharing a post honoring the late author.

There has been much speculation over the years, ranging from Humphrey Bogart to Elizabeth Taylor. But the Gerber baby is actually Ann Turner Cook. At the time the sketch was drawn, she was a four-month-old baby living in the same Connecticut neighborhood as artist Dorothy Hope Smith.

Safest Baby Food

• Yumi. In addition to only using organic ingredients, Yumi rigorously tests its products for toxic heavy metals.
• Once Upon a Farm. Another baby food brand that makes a strong commitment to safe products is Once Upon a Farm.
• Square Baby.
• Little Spoon.
• Serenity Kids.

Doctors recommend waiting until a baby is about 6 months old to start solid foods. Starting before 4 months is not recommended. At about 6 months, babies need the added nutrition - such as iron and zinc - that solid foods provide. It's also the right time to introduce your infant to new tastes and textures.

The woman whose face graced Gerber baby food jars for decades has died. She was 95. The baby food and products brand announced the death of Ann Turner Cook on Instagram last Friday.

In March, Perrigo Co. issued a voluntary recall of certain lots of its Gerber Good Start SoothePro Powder Infant Formula “out of an abundance of caution” due to the possible presence of Cronobacter sakazakii, a germ that can cause serious or deadly infections in infants.