Every parent wants the best for their kids right from the time of pregnancy. If you are soon going to become a parent or you already have a toddler and are looking for the best products for your child then you have come to the right place.

It is indeed very confusing nowadays to decide what is best for your baby. The growing amount of information on parenting tips for toddlers just leaves you in the middle of nowhere when you go to search for what's best for your kid. 

The most important question that every parent wants to know the answer to is which material is best for your children’s tableware. Before we get into the list of what you should consider buying for your kiddos, let's look at what you should avoid or check for when you're purchasing tableware for toddlers.

What Materials Are The Best To Consider?

The tableware that has non-toxic materials is the one that you should consider. While choosing this material you must make sure it satisfies these three requisites - chemically safe, physically safe and durable products that last long. 

Keeping the above mentioned in mind, there are three types of tableware that are the safest for kids - Silicone and Bamboo based products.These materials are very easy to maintain, are comparatively biodegradable and last longer than ceramic, plastic, etc.

What Materials To Avoid?

When we are looking for the appropriate materials for your baby’s products, we always do enough research. The main goal of this research is to find the most dependable, safe and eco-friendly products. Here is a list of materials you should beware of when you choose tableware not just for your kids but also for yourself -

• BPA & BPS
• Lead
• Cadmium
• Teflon (PFAS)
• Melamine Plastic
• Phthalates
• PVC
• Petroleum Products

 When we choose tableware we should ensure that they do not contain such toxic and unsafe materials. This is because such materials get aggravated or activated when they come into contact with microwave heat, UV rays, scratching or hot food. 

Why Should You Choose Silicone And Bamboo Based Products

At Starkiddo, we are constantly making sure that we make the best products for your kiddo that are safe and easy to use for both you and your child. There is a lot of research put in by the team to bring out the most feasible design and the most workable materials for the same. Here are the reasons why you should choose Silicone and Bamboo based products.

Food Safety Is The Priority

It is very important to see that the food that is being fed with these cutlery and bowls have to be safeguarded while hot food is served. Let’s look at how each of these materials are made to understand why they are safe.

When it comes to silicone, people usually have a misconception that it is not safe. Lot of people believe the myth that it is made out of plastic or that it is toxic. While plastic is made from hydrocarbons that are based out of natural gas, coal or crude oil, silicone is a blend of silicon and oxygen. It is a progressively developed material that has proven to be durable, easy to maintain. In simpler words, plastic is made from petroleum whereas silicone is basically a sand based material. 

Additionally, the soft texture of the material is safe for kids and is safe to use for infants too. Even if your baby drops a silicone bowl, it will not shatter into pieces or get a crack. With the newer technologies, silicone has become a growingly kid-friendly material for the weaning stages because it can be designed into an enticing colorful animal shaped bowl for kids.

While plastic is easily affected by high temperatures, silicone can easily bear the normal hot food heat or the microwave to an extent. Basically, it does not release chemicals or toxins to the food when it comes in contact with heat. 

Bamboo based products on the other hand are needless to say, very safe and naturally processed. Bamboo occurs naturally and has antimicrobial properties. It is also a durable and lightweight material used to make cutlery and tableware for kids and is hence considered as one of the non-toxic and safe baby feeding products.

Choosing Eco-friendly & Biodegradable Materials

While you are providing a healthy and safe future for your kiddo, it is also important to consider the safety of the world they are going to live in. In the current scenario, with global warming and climate change, the protection of nature is getting a hard hit. Informed and intelligent choices in the products that you choose, if not huge, do make an impactful difference. 

When you choose toxic and unnatural products, you are harming mother nature. You can inculcate the sense of being eco-friendly to your tiny one from the time they learn basic things by introducing a greener alternative for their tableware too. 

If you choose products that are based out of plastic, there is a threat to nature on land as well as the oceans. Small fragments of plastic still litter the sea and create havoc in the habitat of the sea animals. This disbalances the natural ecosystem that is required for the earth to function. 

Materials like BPA and BFS contain estrogen-mimicking chemicals that cause hormonal imbalances in the body from a very early stage. Plastic is known to affect a child from the weaning stages and causes problems in the future like aggressiveness, hyperactivity and also early puberty. Therefore it is important to consider the material you use for feeding your tiny one and check for toxic and harmful elements in it. 

Highlights

• Choose materials for your kids that are chemically safe, physically safe and durable
• The best materials to consider for your toddler is Silicone and Bamboo based products
• Avoid materials that contain BPA & BPS, Lead, Cadmium, Teflon (PFAS), Melamin, Plastic, Phthalates, PVC, Petroleum Products, etc.
• Make sure the material you choose provides food safety for your kiddo
• Contribute to making a safer environment for your kiddo by choosing eco-friendly and biodegradable materials