Hi. My LO is 5 months and I am starting to really look into the whole weaning thing. I have decided to not exclusively do BLW but I do plan on mixing purees and finger foods. We live in a very healthy household food wise and we are very determined to try our best to keep our DS on healthy, homemade food. However, tonight I have decided to do some research on salt and sugar intake for babies. I am under no illusion that all homemade can be expensive so I thought I would investigate processed food vs homemade further, and its boggled me a little so I thought people here might know more.
For purees, I have made my own vegetable ones and frozen them, but cannot work out the sugar situation for homemade fruit purees. Are processed ones filled with sugar in comparison to homemade ones? For example, Sainsbury's pear, apple and strawberry puree has 10.5g of sugar per pot. That sounds bad to me, but is it? Is homemade puree much better for my LO? Or are all fruit purees bad for babies?
Salt seems easier to avoid in most processed purees. Most I have examined say they have about 0.1g or much less in some. I know daily allowance is about 0.12g.
Is processed baby food really as bad as I have been led to believe?
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SqidgeBum · 23/04/2019 20:57
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