September 6, 2026: Exchanges With Community Members

Published: September 6, 2026 — Sunday

Last night as I was in bed catching up on social media posts, the above video came across my feed (the screenshot above is an image from the video). It is from an account called “kidfriendly.meals” that I had not heard of before. The video shared that the person who owns the account is a “Pediatric Dietician”. This is an account which last night had 1.9 million followers (and now today, less than 24 hours later — possibly in response to the drama created by my post today — has 2 million followers!) You’re welcome – lol!

The video is a paid promotional partnership with Gimme Seaweed and it shows a woman feeding a child food made with Gimme Seaweed Snacks. The child in the video appears to be a very young child – perhaps toddler age. We have tested Gimme Seaweed Snacks and they were incredibly toxic. As they are heavily marketed for consumption by children — we also reported them to the FDA (you can see our lab reports here).

In response to seeing the above video. I sent the message below to the account owner via her DMs (not expecting anything to come of it as people with two million followers don’t typically see most of their DMs. — let alone respond to them) She has not yet responded — it is now after 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, the same day as my 3:15 a.m. comment!

As this was such a big account – and I had never heard of her before (and she did not follow my work), I didn’t expect to get any response to the DM, so I chose to also share this as a post with the two images above, the two images below — and the following caption*:

@kidfriendly.meals as a pediatric dietician @gimmeseaweed snacks should not be a product you recommend for consumption by children.
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These seaweed snacks are not at all safe for kids if you simply follow the current FDA guidelines / suggested limits for toxicants (especially as it relates to babies and toddlers).
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It’s a problem that you have used your professional title (one that instills confidence in consumers) to recommend a product that is not safe for kids.
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It’s also incredibly problematic for someone who identifies as a “pediatric dietician” to partner with such a toxic brand.
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If this is news to you (if you were not aware how toxic these products were when you partnered with this brand) I would like to recommend that you consider cancelling your arrangement with gimme (tell them they breached your contract by omission – as they have been aware of these test results for two years!)
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A pediatric dietician should not be recommending foods contaminated with high levels of LEAD, ARSENIC, Cadmium (& even Mercury) for consumption by young children.
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Lab reports here:
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https://tamararubin.com/category/gimme/

*Noting that this is a slightly edited caption and the original caption (posted in the middle of the night), also included the words “Shame on you…” within the context of the above comments. In short – I was truly pissed to see a hugely influential account promoting that a heavily Lead-Cadmium-&-Arsenic contaminated food be fed to young children (one version of their product also tested positive for MERCURY – this is NOT a product that should EVER be consumed by young children!

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As a result of my caption and post I woke up this morning to an onslaught of vitriol and hate for calling out someone who is a “Pediatric Dietician” for promoting that an incredibly toxic product should be consumed by children. People didn’t like my “tone”, felt my post was inappropriate, suggested I should have waited for her to respond, etc. NOTE: There are also so some wonderfully supportive comments from people who are well educated about the issue, but woah!

The Lead Safe Mama Team and have spent the entire day today answering questions on social media related to this subject!

My response to all of the negativity is well-summarized in the one highlighted exchange below (two images). For context: the rest of the posts today (shared here earlier, the exchanges with readers), all came out of the questions and comments raised in the comment section of this one post — so being public about this exchange (as I always am) turned out to be a good thing as hundreds (and possibly thousands) of people who were somehow not already aware of the toxicant profile of modern seaweed snacks now are aware and may rethink feeding them to their children (again, one type tested positive for MERCURY for Pete’s sake!)

And for me the moral of the story is…

All influencers should research their potential brand partners and the products those companies make BEFORE agreeing to a brand partnership.
If you are an influencer with the professional title of “Pediatric Dietician” you community expects you to be educated on the subject you share about so do your homework specifically about the safety of the foods you are considering recommending before agreeing to engage in any brand partnerships.
If influencers did any (even cursory) research they would hopefully not choose to partner with companies like Gimme — a company that knowingly manufactures toxic products that are not safe for consumption by children, yet are heavily marketed to children.
- Gimme was made aware of our reports two years ago (in 2024) and – to our knowledge – chose to take no action and make no changes.
Footnote: Truly I don’t care how upset this dietician’s followers are about their concerns for what they feel is my “inappropriate behavior / language” — or feelings that I somehow mistreated this woman with my words. As we all know, “well-behaved women seldom make history” (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 1976) And stating truths (albeit bluntly) is not “mistreating” someone, even if those truths are uncomfortable for the intended audience.
- We brought her community’s attention to this issue and now they are aware that they have been served up misinformation (information that indicated an unsafe product is safe for kids) while also being made aware that the influencer they follow has been paid for representing this unsafe product as safe.
- Civility may be lovely, but the correct response to what has happened here IS outrage. Children should not be fed foods contaminated with three or four poisons! Next time, do your homework.