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Food Talk For HealthCould food allergies disappear in children? Meenal LeLe talks about the research, her discoveries and productsWe would love to hear from you. Click here and let us know what you thought of this episode.I really enjoyed talking with Meenal. She is on a mission to remove food allergies in children. Her product Lil Mixins is a great start. She talks about how it can help young parents get through the first year with their newborns.Meenal addressed many questions on the topic such as:*Have we stalled in terms of nutrition science or what is needed in the industry to keep making breakthrough discoveries?*Why is i...
2026-01-1319 min
Digital Health Talks - Changemakers Focused on Fixing HealthcareFrom Food Allergy Parent to Published Author and CEO: Meenal Lele on Building an Evidence-Based Prevention Company as Delaware Mandates Insurance CoverageAs Delaware implements the nation's first insurance mandate for early allergen introduction on January 1st, 2026, Meenal Lele, Founder & CEO of Lil Mixins and author of The Baby and the Biome, shares her journey from food allergy parent to medical entrepreneur. With multiple patents, published clinical studies, and an engineering background, Meenal built Hanimune Therapeutics to address a crisis affecting 33 million Americans. She discusses the clinical evidence behind early allergen introduction, navigating insurance coverage, and why state-level policy changes matter for reducing childhood allergies while saving healthcare systems millions. Discover how maternal insight combined with scientific rigor is transforming prevention.
2026-01-0636 min
Lo & Behold | Pregnancy, Birth, MotherhoodFood Allergies & Baby: When & How to Start Allergens & What to Watch For with Meenal Lele of Lil Mixins | Episode 33Join The Breastfeeding Blueprint: www.labormama.com/breastfeeding & use the code PODCAST to save 20%In this episode of Lo & Behold, I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Meenal Lele, the founder and CEO of Lil Mixins, who's been at the forefront of making early allergen introduction straightforward and empowering for families. As a mom who's navigated the wild world of food allergies with her own son, Meenal breaks down the latest research in a way that's clear, reassuring, and totally relatable - perfect for expectant parents or those in the thick of those early months and...
2026-01-0544 min
Healthcare NOW RadioDigital Health Talks: From Food Allergy Parent to Published Author and CEOFrom Food Allergy Parent to Published Author and CEO: Meenal Lele on Building an Evidence-Based Prevention Company as Delaware Mandates Insurance Coverage As Delaware implements the nation's first insurance mandate for early allergen introduction on January 1st, 2026, Meenal Lele, Founder & CEO of Lil Mixins and author of The Baby and the Biome, shares her journey from food allergy parent to medical entrepreneur. With multiple patents, published clinical studies, and an engineering background, Meenal built Hanimune Therapeutics to address a crisis affecting 33 million Americans. She discusses the clinical evidence behind early allergen introduction, navigating insurance coverage, and why state-level policy changes...
2026-01-0126 min
Healthcare NOW Radio Podcast Network - Discussions on healthcare including technology, innovation, policy, data security, telehealth and more. Visit HealthcareNOWRadio.comDigital Health Talks: From Food Allergy Parent to Published Author and CEOFrom Food Allergy Parent to Published Author and CEO: Meenal Lele on Building an Evidence-Based Prevention Company as Delaware Mandates Insurance Coverage
Host: Megan Antonelli
Guest: Meenal Lele, Founder & CEO, Lil Mixins
Join Megan Antonelli and guest Meenal Lele, Founder & CEO of Lil Mixins and author of The Baby and the Biome. As Delaware implements the nation's first insurance mandate for early allergen introduction on January 1st, 2026, Meenal shares her journey from food allergy parent to medical entrepreneur. With multiple patents, published clinical studies, and an engineering background, Meenal built Hanimune Therapeutics to address a crisis affecting 33 million Americans. She...
2025-12-3026 min
Food TruthsSolving Infant Food Allergies with Meenal LeleToday's guest is Meenal Lele, CEO and Founder of Hanimune Therapeutics. Meenal joins the show to discuss a complex and frustating issue for many parents and children: food allergies. Food allergies are becoming more frequently diagnosed as we learn how children's genetics, environment, and microbiomes develop in response to foods.
Meenal's food brand, Lil Mixins, is solving this with thoughtful adherence to the latest consensus science on food allergies and how best to approach reducing food allergies in children.
Despite my immunology background, I learned so much from Meenal. You can learn more about Meenal...
2025-12-1848 min
Don't Feed the Fear: Allergy Anxiety & TraumaInnovations to Improve Food Allergy Prevention and Care with Meenal LeleSend us Fan MailMeenal Lele is the founder and CEO of Hanimune Therapeutics, which she founded with the aim of developing food allergy preventative products. The company's goal is to create solutions for parents preventing food allergies and doctors seeking better options to support tolerance. The company's commercial branch Lil' Mixins provides products making early allergen introduction to infants in a safe and controlled manner. In our conversation we explore her groundbreaking innovations in creating "non-allergenic" peanuts and other top allergens and the vital connection between the gut microbiome, allergy development, and mental health. W...
2025-08-0544 min
Eczema BreakthroughsIs the gut microbiome the key to allergic disease?Could we cure allergies by taking probiotics or transplanting the gut microbiome from a healthy person? What does all this mean for eczema/allergy prevention? To find out, join our conversation with Dr. Rima Rachid, allergist and immunologist at Harvard Children’s Hospital, and Meenal Lele, eczema mom and author of Baby and the Biome. We discuss the promising trials with fecal microbiota transplants for food allergic children as well as the best probiotic to take for eczema and when it’s important to take it. (And if you like our podcast, consider supporting it with a tax deductible donation...
2024-02-1318 min
MissPoppins: The Art of ParentingEpisode 18: Innovating for the Future: Nicky Rishi and Meenal Lele on Revolutionizing Childcare and HealthWelcome to an empowering episode of 'MissPoppins: The Art of Parenting.' I'm your host, Nicky Rishi, founder of MissPoppins, a revolutionary parent-tech app, and 180 Elevate, a social-networking, non-profit platform for conscious leaders. Today, we're joined by a special guest, Meenal Lele, the founder of Lil Mixins and author of 'The Baby and the Biome.'In this episode, we dive into the intersection of entrepreneurship, parenting, and the groundbreaking approach to preventing food allergies in children. Meenal, a mother herself, transformed her personal challenges into a mission to end food allergies. Meenal Lele, a pioneering entrepreneur...
2024-02-0620 min
We're Momming Today! w/Lauren SimonettiMom On A Mission: Medical Researcher Mom Invents Food Line To Help Reduce Babies’ Allergic Reactions“We’re Momming Today” about allergies! It’s a growing problem for families; roughly two children in every classroom has them, and we’re often advised to not eat peanuts on airplanes or even bake cupcakes for kids’ school birthday parties unless the ingredients are listed. One mom had had enough! Meenal Lele, mother of two and medical researcher with a background in chemical engineering, became a businesswoman on a mission when her son was diagnosed with severe food allergies. Determined to help him and other desperate moms, Lele invented a peanut and egg line for babies. The thinking was EXPOSE t...
2023-11-0420 min
That's Total Mom SenseMeenal Lele: How to Protect Your Child From Food Allergies (Replay)Soon after Meenal Lele's first child was diagnosed with multiple food allergies, new research upended decades of allergy advice. The LEAP study found that consistently adding allergenic foods beginning at four months of age could drastically reduce the rate of developing food allergies. The American Academy of Pediatrics subsequently began recommending that parents give allergenic foods to their babies early and often.As Meenal struggled to prepare allergens three times a week for her second child, she realized how hard it was to mix nuts into baby food without exposing his older brother or contaminating the blender...
2023-04-0641 min
The Itch: Allergies, Asthma, Eczema & Immunology#54 - Early Introduction of Allergens in BabiesWhat is early allergen introduction for babies?
Are you still confused about when to feed your baby allergens? Over the past few decades, there has been quite a shift in thinking about the early introduction of food allergens for babies, so your confusion is wholly justified. Dr. G dives into this exact topic and talks to two professionals, Meenal Lele and Dr. Katie Marks-Cogan, in the field of early introduction. She explores why the guidelines for introducing allergens have changed and how to introduce allergens safely and consistently.
What we cover in this podcast about the e...
2023-04-0537 minThe Itch: Allergies, Asthma, Eczema & Immunology#54 - Early Introduction of Allergens in BabiesWhat is early allergen introduction for babies?
Are you still confused about when to feed your baby allergens? Over the past few decades, there has been quite a shift in thinking about the early introduction of food allergens for babies, so your confusion is wholly justified. Dr. G dives into this exact topic and talks to two professionals, Meenal Lele and Dr. Katie Marks-Cogan, in the field of early introduction. She explores why the guidelines for introducing allergens have changed and how to introduce allergens safely and consistently.
What we cover in this podcast about the e...
2023-04-0537 min
The Lindsey Elmore ShowBaby and The Biome: Supplements for Childhood Immunity | Meenal LeleMeenal Lele is author of The Baby and the Biome, a revolutionary look at immune disease, and what one parent has learned to reverse it. Meenal has designed, run, and published multiple large clinical studies across orthopedics, vascular medicine, and allergy. She has an engineering and a business degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and is the founder of Lil Mixins (www.lilmixins.com) - an allergy prevention company. As a food allergy & asthma parent, she is committed to bringing an end to the immune diseases that plague 80 million Americans. Topics covered in this episode: Allergists Warning Signs for Parents...
2023-01-3153 min
Totally Booked with ZibbyMeenal Lele, THE BABY AND THE BIOME: How the Tiny World Inside Your Child Holds the Secret to Their HealthZibby interviews Meenal Lele, a medical researcher and the founder of Lil Mixins (the #1 pediatrician-recommended allergy-prevention product), about her revolutionary new parenting book The Baby and the Biome: How The Tiny World Inside Your Child Holds the Secret to Their Health. Meenal talks about immune systems, revealing that ages 0 to 3 are the most critical and listing the best things we can do to strengthen and protect a baby’s microbiome. She also talks about the power of early allergen introduction, which is the key to ending eczema and food allergies before they even start, and is the founding principle of...
2023-01-2629 min
Courageous WellnessMeenal Lele, Founder of Lil Mixins, Discusses Her Book The Baby and The Biome and How To Prevent and Manage Childhood AllergiesToday on the show we have Meenal Lele, medical researcher, founder of Lil Mixins and author of The Baby and the Biome. Meenal Lele’s personal experience fueled her interest in the importance of the microbiome after her son developed food allergies as a baby. Motivated by this she sought to figure out the root cause of what was causing these allergies. Drawing on her medical background and through extensive research and interviews with scientists and doctors, Meenal discovered the simple, practical steps that all parents and pregnant people can take to help foster a healthy and protective microbiome in...
2022-12-071h 08
Success Made to Last LegendsSuccess :your baby's first 1000 days...building immunity with Meenal LeleA revolutionary parenting book that draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that the key to raising happy and healthy babies lies in carefully protecting and caring for their microbiomes. A baby’s immune system develops rapidly in the first 1,000 days of life, with the first six months and year being most important. In The Baby and the Biome, Meenal Lele, medical researcher and founder of Lil Mixins, the #1 pediatrician-recommended allergy-prevention product , explains how diet, environmental toxins, antibiotics, and even common parenting practices can damage the delicate balance of our children’s microbiomes, thereby increasing the risk for a host of immu...
2022-11-0736 minSuccess Made to Last LegendsSuccess with Meenal Lele wrote the revolutionary book The Baby and the Biome- developing the immune system for the first 1000 daysA revolutionary parenting book that draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that the key to raising happy and healthy babies lies in carefully protecting and caring for their microbiomes.A baby’s immune system develops rapidly in the first 1,000 days of life, with the first six months and year being most important. In The Baby and the Biome, Meenal Lele, medical researcher and founder of Lil Mixins, the #1 pediatrician-recommended allergy-prevention product , explains how diet, environmental toxins, antibiotics, and even common parenting practices can damage the delicate balance of our children’s microbiomes, thereby increasing the risk for a host...
2022-11-0136 min
Anja Health Podcast: Science-Based Birth PodcastEarly Allergen Prevention w/ Lil' Mixins Founder, Meenal Lele | Pregnancy, Birth, Cord Blood Banking, and Beyond | Anja HealthJoin Certified Doula Amelia Protiva and Anja Health Founder Kathryn Cross as they explore all things pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with renowned special guests in the health and wellness industry. In this episode, Amelia dives deep with @Lil Mixins Founder Meenal Lele on the baby's biome and early allergen prevention.
In this episode—
· What is the baby's microbiome?
· What factors affect the balance of our children’s microbiomes, and how?
· Why do some kids develop allergies but not others?
· What are the consequences of allergies?
2022-10-2833 min
15 Minute MatrixMapping The Baby Microbiome with Meenal Lele #351Meenal Lele is author of the important book “The Baby and the Biome”, and today we discuss the microbiome through the lens of our babies and their health. We’ll explore the key differences between a baby’s microbiome and that in an adult human, and get super tactical about how to reframe our thinking for long […]
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2022-10-1925 min
My Kind of LifeSE3: EP 017 - Early Allergen Introduction and Tolerance Training with Meenal LeleIn this episode of Whole-Body Health©, I chat with Meenal Lele about early allergen introduction and tolerance training to benefit parents of children with food allergies--and children not yet diagnosed with food allergies. Meenal is the author of The Baby in the Biome and devotes her life to helping parents of children with food allergies. This episode is informative as we discuss the microbiome and immune system and their effects on allergies. Emily and Meenal also share their personal struggles as food allergy mamas and how they overcame them.
2022-10-1441 min
The Healthy Skin Show262: Why Your Child's Risk of Allergies, Eczema + Asthma Is So High w/ Meenal Lele If you've had children, you may have been given tips (probably unsolicited) about feeding Baby, but what does the science really say about baby advice? From allergies to getting your child started on the best foot forward, most parents are left trying to decipher an ever-changing landscape while feeling defeated. Today's guest, Meenal Lele, is the author of The Baby and the Biome, a revelatory look at how we all got so sick. She is also the founder & CEO of Lil Mixins, an early allergen introduction solution. She has a chemical engineering and business degree from the...
2022-09-2239 min
Access Top-Rated Free Audiobooks in Self-Improvement, Parenting TipsThe Baby and the Biome: How the Tiny World Inside Your Child Holds the Secret to their Health by Meenal LelePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Baby and the Biome: How the Tiny World Inside Your Child Holds the Secret to their Health Author: Meenal Lele Narrator: Meenal Lele Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Parenting Tips Publisher's Summary: A revolutionary parenting book that draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that the key to raising happy and healthy babies lies in carefully protecting and caring for their microbiomes. A baby’s immune system develops rapidly in the first 1,000 days of life, with the fi...
2022-09-0610 min
Out of Patients with Matthew ZacharyOnly Expectant Parents Can Prevent Food AllergiesI learned a lot from my guest today, and I mean A LOT. For example, I had no idea that humans have something called the "Adaptive Immune System." Nor did I know — although I had my suspicions — why it seems that everyone is allergic to everything these days, yet, growing up in the 70s and 80s, no one was allergic to anything. My guest, Meenal Lele, host of the fantastic podcast "Fixing Sick," received two back-to-back Science degrees from Wharton and UPenn in the same year. That background came in extremely handy when her newborn nearly died from an undia...
2022-09-0633 min
The Whole Health Cure"Protecting Your Baby’s Microbiome,” with Meenal LeleThis podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visit this link.To learn more about Meenal Lele's book, The Baby and the Biome, please visit this link.For related podcast resources and information about the book, please visit https://www.fixingsick.com/ Link to lil mixins website: (https://www.lilmixins.com/pages/our-story)IG: @lilmixins (https://www.instagram.com/lilmixins/?hl=en)LI: Meenal Lele (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenallele/)Lil mixins (https://www.linkedin.com/co...
2022-08-2439 min
My New LifeHow to boost your baby's biomeWe hear a lot about the first 3 years of a baby’s life — how critical those years are to brain development. But today’s guest, the author of The Baby and the Biome, would argue that the same window is just as critical for our gut. Probiotics may have a role in keeping that system healthy. But are probiotics helpful to babies? And what about when you’re pregnant? Jessica Rolph, your host, welcomes Meenal Lele, founder of Lil’ Mixins. Highlights: [1:39] When do babies pick up their first dose of bacteria? [2:54] How does bir...
2022-08-1024 min
Food IssuesChia Seeds Benefits + Superseeds for Babies, Toddlers & Kids w/ Kim Pabla and Tina Rajani, co-founders, Tiny Sprouts Foods | Episode 6Seeds aren’t something we often think about feeding babies, toddlers, or big kids, yet in recent years, there’s been a growing interest in them. In fact, U.S. Google searches for chia seeds, in particular, have grown a whopping 800% since 2009. If you're a mom starting your baby on solids, or trying to get more plant-based, healthy options in your kid’s diet, you might have wondered about chia seeds’ benefits and if other seeds are something you should be serving up too.
In this episode, I sat down with Kim Pabla and Tina Rajani, best friends and co-founders of Tiny S...
2022-06-2134 minFood IssuesHow to Prevent Food Allergy w/ Meenal Lele Founder & CEO, Lil Mixins | Episode 3One of the most common questions for parents of newborns is how can you prevent a food allergy? A whopping 5.6 million kids in the U.S. have food allergies, and for their parents, keeping them safe is no easy feat. They spend so much of their time preventing accidental exposures and allergic reactions. They avoid foods, read food labels, ask questions, talk to people who care for their child, have care plans, and carry epinephrine.
Although the guidance for preventing a food allergy was to avoid allergenic foods for a period of time after starting solids, in recent years, research s...
2022-05-3138 min
FoodNiche ChangemakersFood Allergy Prevention In Children With Meenal LeleOn this episode of Food + Health Talks we discuss preventing food allergies in children with Meenal Lele as she shares how her personal experience led her on a unique journey.
She is the author of "The Baby and the Biome. She is also the founder & CEO of Lil Mixins, an early allergen introduction solution. Meenal has been a medical researcher for 20 years, and has a chemical engineering and business degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Meenal is focused on bringing an end to the food allergies that affect 40 million Americans, like her son. In this...
2022-05-0629 min
Moffet Tattle-TaleInterview with Lil' Mixins Creator and CEO Meenal LeleLexie and Aiyanna interview Lil' Mixins Creator and CEO Meenal Lele. Lil Mixins is a pediatric food additive that helps babies avoid allergies.
2022-04-2516 min
UnswaddledExposure to Allergens with Lil MixinsAs a follow up on allergies and starting solids, Emily is joined by Meenal Lele— owner and founder of Lil Mixins. Lil Mixins was founded with the purpose (and significant clinical research) to stop food allergies before they start, while making the process simple! Meenal shares her story and what inspired her to prevent food allergies. Also discussed on this episode: -signs to look for with food allergies -allergy testing -asthma -eczema -early allergen introduction -food timeline -top allergens -peanuts/tree nuts -eggs -allergy prevention -how an...
2022-04-1837 min
Transformative ExpertsTransforming PurposeFinding our calling can take both time and effort. For many of us, this can take time and even be a lifelong pursuit. For others, events in our lives can trigger a transformation and reveal our purpose to us. This happened to Meenal Lele who was very successful in the medical device world. The trigger? Allergies. Meenal recognized an opportunity and started a company that first produced products to help parents minimize the potential for allergies to appear in their children and now educates people on this. Join Chris and Meenal as they discuss her fascinating journey which highlights another...
2021-11-0100 min
Fixing SickEpisode 8. PreventionWe are not condemned to immune disease, and to a large extent they are preventable. Learn from Dr. Julia Getzelman and Dr. Kyra Naumoff-Shields what steps you can take to reduce your and your children's risk of immune disease.
2021-10-2925 min
Fixing SickEpisode 7. TreatmentDr. Brian Schroer walks us through the treatments we have today to calm the immune system, to shut down the malfunctioning system, and to retrain the immune system, while Dr Julia Getzelman introduces us to the integrative medicine approach to treatment. We are farther along than you think!
2021-10-2929 min
Fixing SickEpisode 6. MicrobiomeIt’s not just a buzzword to sell you probiotics. Your microbiome is at the root of immune dysfunction. Dr. Kyle Bittinger and Dr. Carina Venter explain exactly how dysbiosis - or a broken microbiome -- causes immune disease.
2021-10-2930 min
Fixing SickEpisode 5. Immune SystemArmed with an understanding of what’s going wrong in immune diseases, we speak to Dr. Dominic Beal about why the immune system is malfunctioning. What changed in the last 30 years to cause all this illness?
2021-10-2927 min
Fixing SickEpisode 4. The GutThere are so many immune diseases of the gut, we can’t cover them all. Dr. Benjamin Wright and Dr. Marc Rothenberg help us understand allergic diseases and barrier dysfunction of the gut, along with the far-reaching implications of gut disease.
2021-10-2924 min
Fixing SickEpisode 3. The SkinYour skin is your largest single immune organ. Dr. Zelma Chiesa helps us understand immune diseases of the skin and the ways they overlap with other lung diseases, and introduces us to the critical debate -- where do immune diseases originate?
2021-10-2929 min
Fixing SickEpisode 2. The LungsYou stop breathing, you die. Yet our immune systems can act out to make it impossible to breathe. Dr. Payel Gupta and Dr. David Lederer help us begin to understand immune diseases with their expertise on the lungs.
2021-10-2928 min
Fixing SickEpisode 1. Living SickIf you’ve ever asked, “Why does everyone have allergies?”, you are not alone. Food allergies, asthma, ADHD, Type 1 Diabetes, IBS, eczema, Crohn's disease, and more affect up to 30% of Americans. What’s the common link? They are all diseases of the immune system, and they are all deadly.
2021-10-2921 min
ShandeeLandHer Life’s Mission: Ending Food AllergiesMeenal Lele is the founder and CEO of Lil Mixins, an early food allergen introduction solution. When her 10-month-old son erupted in hives and his lip swelled after he ate an egg, she and her husband were baffled. All signs pointed to an allergic reaction, yet their baby had just been tested for food allergies and the results were negative for egg. One week after her son’s first food allergy reaction, the results of the Learning Early About Peanuts (LEAP) Study was released and showed that feeding foods in infancy can reduce their risk of developing a food alle...
2021-04-2532 min
ideamix podcastEntrepreneurs 101 - Meenal Lele, Lil MixinsOur guest today is Meenal Lele, an entrepreneur who was inspired to start her baby supplement company Lil Mixins by her own experiences as a mother. Soon after Meenal's first son developed several severe food allergies, new research showed that there was a way to keep babies from developing most common food allergies. Meenal was inspired to develop her own brand of supplements to make early introduction of these allergens as easy as possible for new parents. Listen as she describes growing her business through education and how the best advertisement is earned rather than bought. Subscribe to Ideamix...
2020-07-1624 min
The Good Word with Tisha LewisThe Good Word: Lil Mixins Founder Meenal LeleEntrepreneur Meenal Lele joins us on The Good Word podcast with inspiration for aspiring entrepreneurs! Meenal created Lil Mixins after her first son developed severe food allergies. She was determined to find a way to curb food allergies for her second son! She created Lil Mixins, powdered foods that can be easily stirred into baby food in the correct amounts, to curb allergies. Meenal shares the process of starting her own business and how “everything in the universe aligned” leading to her success!
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2020-06-1617 min
War Room Sports Podcast NetworkJawn Appetit: (Episode 172) Meenal Lele, Lil MixinsOn a special edition of Jawn Appetit, Meenal Lele of Lil Mixins joins us to discuss early allergen introduction as we close out National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month. We also discuss the potential of virtual dining experiences, and we tell you were to get some of the best to-go cocktails in the city.
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2020-05-301h 07
Jawn AppetitJawn Appetit - Episode 172 - Meenal Lele, Lil MixinsOn a special edition of Jawn Appetit, Meenal Lele of Lil Mixins joins us to discuss early allergen introduction as we close out National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month. We also discuss the potential of virtual dining experiences, and we tell you were to get some of the best to-go cocktails in the city.
2020-05-271h 06
Jawn AppetitJawn Appetit - Episode 172 - Meenal Lele, Lil MixinsOn a special edition of Jawn Appetit, Meenal Lele of Lil Mixins joins us to discuss early allergen introduction as we close out National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month. We also discuss the potential of virtual dining experiences, and we tell you were to get some of the best to-go cocktails in the city.
2020-05-271h 06
Bootleg Avocado: Food and Beverage VenturesLil Mixins - Stopping Food Allergies One Baby At A TimeWe chat with Meenal Lele, Founder and CEO of Lil Mixins. Their mission is very simple: make early introduction easy so they can put an end to food allergies. This is the one episode you don't want to miss if you are a new parent.
2019-11-1836 min
We're Momming Today! w/Lauren SimonettiMom On A Mission: Medical Researcher Mom Invents Food Line To Help Reduce Babies’ Allergic Reactions“We’re Momming Today” about allergies! It’s a growing problem for families; roughly two children in every classroom has them, and we’re often advised to not eat peanuts on airplanes or even bake cupcakes for kids’ school birthday parties unless the ingredients are listed. One mom had had enough! Meenal Lele, mother of two and medical researcher with a background in chemical engineering, became a businesswoman on a mission when her son was diagnosed with severe food allergies. Determined to help him and other desperate moms, Lele invented a peanut and egg line for babies. The thinking was EXPOSE them at a...
2019-11-0919 min
That's Total Mom Sense020: Meenal Lele — How to Protect Your Child From Food AllergiesSoon after Meenal Lele's first child was diagnosed with multiple food allergies, new research upended decades of allergy advice. The LEAP study found that consistently adding allergenic foods beginning at four months of age could drastically reduce the rate of developing food allergies. The American Academy of Pediatrics subsequently began recommending that parents give allergenic foods to their babies early and often.As Meenal struggled to prepare allergens three times a week for her second child, she realized how hard it was to mix nuts into baby food without exposing his older brother or contaminating the blender...
2019-10-0942 min