The 60-second summary (busy parent edition) The new guidance emphasizes: Protein at every meal Full-fat dairy (with no added sugars) Vegetables + fruits in whole forms Healthy fats from whole...
Kids’ Nutrition, Parenting Trends, Food Safety, and the Ingredients That Shaped the Year The big story of 2025 If 2024 was the year parents started suspecting the food environment was...
Written By James Costa, Chief Operating Officer, Sneakz Organic I’ve spent most of my career in and around food manufacturing plants—walking production lines, reviewing formulations, solving problems when a product...
Or The Cozy Cure: How Whole-Chicken Soup Warms Bellies, Boosts Health, and Beats the Can Most kids grow up believing chicken soup is something you open, not something you make....
How to Turn After-School Chaos into 15 Minutes of Calm (and Carrots) Afternoons with kids can go one of two ways: Everyone turns into a pack of hungry, screen-addicted raccoons....
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are everywhere — in lunchboxes, on road trips, at after-school snack time, even hidden in foods we think of as “healthy.” They’re convenient, they’re tasty, and let’s...
If your family’s been loving the Sneakz Pickle Party recipes, you’re already halfway to discovering one of food’s oldest tricks: fermentation. The jars look the same, the crunch is familiar, but...
🍎 The Sneakz Watchlist: Ingredients to Love (and Leave Behind) If you’ve ever stood in the grocery aisle wondering whether “natural flavor” actually means natural, you’re not alone. Today’s parents...
I just took a 16-hour flight to China and, for once, skipped the usual “chicken or beef” dinner shuffle. Instead, I brought a Sneakz Meal-2-Go. I felt satisfied, slept better, and...
Early childhood isn’t just stubbed toes and skinned knees. And it's more than “growth spurts” and milestones. It’s when the brain’s wiring is laid down at high speed, especially across...
Pickling is kitchen magic. You take simple veggies, dunk them in a flavorful bath, and—ta-da!—in just a day or two they come out zesty, crunchy, and totally transformed. Kids love...
Diversity in our diets is the key to all things good. Next up is family togetherness. Try creating a 'mystery smoothie lab' experience the whole family takes part in. You'll...
 Bzzzz. It's the alarm clock. It’s 6:37 a.m. You’ve got a toddler on one hip, a backpack on the other, breakfast simmering, calendars colliding and your day hasn’t even “started.”...
Our bellies are busy, busy. And our kid's bellies are especially active little ecosystems. When we feed those little gut microbes with good stuff, well, families often see wins in...
I’m Dr. Helen Chen — a proud working mom of two kids (Kaitlyn, 15 and Alex, 8), food scientist, and lifelong wellness enthusiast. Born in Guangzhou, China and rooted in...
No Mystery Ingredients: Just Peanuts, Love, and a Little Mess Along the Way (a very little) Peanut butter is a childhood classic. It's All American. Wholesome as it gets. But...
Stay Away from those bright and shiny packages If you caught the recent coverage on ultra-processed foods (UPFs), you saw the headline grabber: most Americans get more than half of their...
It Starts in the Pantry, Not the Person A massive global study just blew up the “kids just need more exercise” excuse. Researchers found we all burn roughly the same...
 And how barcodes may be the key to unlocking transparency (By James J. Costa, COO, Sneakz Organic LLC USA | SEP Solution Engineering, China) In today’s global food market,...
Authored by: Eden Bedoya, Sneakz 2025 Summer Intern Hi everyone! I’m excited to kick off my first blog post as a Sneakz intern by sharing a project that’s close to...