ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – An Anchorage company making baby food using Alaska-grown vegetables, Alaska seafood and olive oil harvested from Greece is celebrating 15 years in business.
Zoi Maroudas, who grew up in Greece and later moved to Alaska with her family, is the founder and CEO of Bambino’s Baby Food. She said she started the company to address what she described as a nutrition gap in available infant food products.
“I founded Bambino’s Baby Food with Alaska’s resources, our pure soil, our amazing vegetables with a long duration of sunlight and Alaskan seafood, fresh water, medical background, Mediterranean diet experience, bring them together and you have a very high quality product,” Maroudas said.
From medical research to baby food
Maroudas studied geriatrics and neuroscience when she began examining baby food products sold in stores. She said she found many combined fruits and vegetables or isolated proteins in ways that did not reflect a balanced diet…