What Is The Best Organic Baby Food?

I don’t think there is such a thing as the best organic baby food or indeed a worst. It depends upon you, what is available, what you can afford and what your baby will eat.

There are those who would promote avocado for this role and it is very good. But unless you too like avocado there can be some waste and for many of us it would be an expensive choice... though it is possible to freeze slices of avocado, first dipping them in a bowl of water containing a little citrus fruit to help prevent excess browning .

Grain products will probably not qualify as a great baby food, unless you stick to rice. There is some evidence that babies who are not exposed to the gluten present in many grains in the first 6 months of life will not later develop an allergy to it. This especially applies to wheat products which is present in many commercial baby foods – often under a name that is hard to recognize such as ‘starch’ or ‘farina’.

Many experts suggest that whatever type of food you choose, you only introduce one new food at a time. This way you are more likely to spot the problem when your baby isn’t quite ready for a particular food.

Having said that, you can worry too much.

Many commercial foods are mixed ones. If you give your baby a food that is a mixed one and he doesn’t react, he isn’t allergic to any of the ingredients. However, if he does react, go back a stage and introduce the foods one at a time.

I had one son who was quite happy to go through the various normal stages of soft, smooth food to more lumpy ones etc. and to mixed foods. But his older brother always wanted whatever was going. And from the time he was able to sit independently wanted exactly the same as everyone else.

He didn’t always get it but I am afraid I broke quite a few ‘rules’ with him over the next few months. But  I can honestly say that we had no real problems as a result – though we had  to make a few concessions e.g. not eating chillies until he was in bed  and avoiding salty foods and more than a tiny bit of sugar.

Sweet potatoes would surely qualify as a "best organic baby food" and is great as one of the first solid foods.

I refer here to the orange fleshed sort , sometimes called yams, rather than the while fleshed variety which can be harder. They contain several different vitamins and are also a source of iron. They are also a good source of fibre. You can either bake them and then mash flesh or you could boil or steam them.

Try sweet potato mixed with swede ( rutabaga), apple, peach or pear puree or with squash... it another "best organic baby food"

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