About Us
Registered Holistic Nutritionist Irene Swedak continues the work of company's founder in her quest to provide children with nutritious first foods...and parents with convenience.
Toronto mom and entrepreneur Tanya Moore founded Healthy Sprouts® Foods Inc. in late 2004. The company was born out of her desire to give her babies nutritious, tasty, and fresh organic baby food . While spending long hours in the kitchen was not easy, she felt it was the only option for her children aged 2 years and 6 months. Her motto was “If I can’t eat it – neither will my child!” She refused to buy jarred conventional or organic foods and wondered why after all of these years someone had not come up with a better option – she took the task into her own hands and began to grow “Healthy Sprouts®” Foods Inc.
It took passion and determination to develop and launch Healthy Sprouts® into stores. In May 2006, Healthy Sprouts® was on retail shelves and became Canada’s first frozen organic baby food available in convenient ‘grab & go’ cups.
In 2007, Healthy Sprouts welcomed Irene Swedak, RNCP to the company. Irene's passion for educating parents on the value of nutritious food is what aroused the attention of Tanya Moore in early 2006. At that time, Irene began working with Tanya and Healthy Sprouts as their Nutritional Advisor and later took on the role of Director of Nutrition and Product Development. Upon graduating with honors from the University of Guelph in 1996, (specializing in biochemistry and nutrition), Irene obtained her honors in holistic nutrition from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition and founded Wellness Wizards Nutritional Consulting. She is a registered member of the International Organization of Nutritional Consultants, and resides in southern with her family, including two (now teenage) children. As an instructor and professional menu-planner, Irene's most popular seminars for the past several years have been "Baby Food & Toddler Basics" where she educates her students hands-on, and teaches them about food introduction, quality, and feeding tips.
Since Irene joined the company, new product lines have been developed for Toddlers consisting textured meals for children around 1 year of age and older. The new lines will be in stores soon. In mid-2009, in order to spend more time with her growing family,Tanya resigned and Irene took over her role as president. Irene has formed a new Healthy Sprouts team...and the mompreneur continues to work hard to provide healthy meals for children from the introduction of solids and beyond because… ‘your little miracle is worth it’.
