Banana (Mai'a)

Every batch of this pouch is tested for arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury by an ISO 17025-accredited lab (Light Labs, by ICP-MS/MS), and the certificate for each lot is published. The latest, lot S1B07/28/27 tested 2026-08-06, puts all four metals within the per-serving limits, with lead not detected, and mercury not detected too.

The pouch material that touches this banana puree is not described anywhere — no polymer, laminate, or bisphenol-free scope is named for the packaging that holds the food against the mouth.

The pouch is labeled Stage 1, for first tastes, as a single-ingredient smooth banana puree — a plain food claim with a stated reason for the age band, not a formula or nutritional-completeness claim of any kind.

Nothing is published about how this pouch or its spout holds up to handling, storage temperature, or any heating the caregiver might do before feeding it to a baby.

We queried the complete CPSC recall database, covering over 10,000 records back to 1973, and found nothing filed against this brand in any role. A control check confirmed the database does cover comparable product classes, so the clean result reflects a genuine absence of recalls.

Once opened, a pouch is to be refrigerated and eaten within 24 hours, a concrete storage instruction in the brand's own words; nothing is published on warming, serving from the pouch or discarding a pouch with a broken seal.

We found named regional certifications — the Hawaii Seal of Quality and Made in Hawaii with Aloha — all asserted for the brand's products without a published registry number.

The brand discloses that it moved production to its own facility in Waipahu, Hawaii, which names a location and gives some manufacturing history, but no materials list, warranty terms, or spare-parts/repair route are published anywhere.

It uses only whole fruit with no fillers, artificial flavors or synthetic preservatives, and is described elsewhere as organic, but no certification scheme, no scope, and no origin for the bananas are named.

Nothing names the pouch laminate, spout polymer, or states them free of bisphenols and phthalates — the packaging that holds this puree against the mouth is entirely undisclosed.