corn: when to introduce?

[MumOfLeo]

When can I introduce corn into my ds's diet? Each book I read has a different answer! He is now 7 mos and happily eats all veggies and fruits: no allergies so far (cross fingers). I would like to give him some jarred foods that have corn as one of the ingredients. Thanks in advance!

Don't the Brits say "maize"?

Personally I was giving soggy Kellogg's "corn" flakes from before 6 months.

DS was having corn flakes from about 9 months, as well as jar food which had corn in the ingredients from whatever age it said on the jar (7 months?)

corn/maize should be fine from early. it doesn't contain gluten.

I think if you look at the American sites they often consider maize/corn to be a high allergen food, thus the mixed advice MumofLeo encounters, I imagine. This may be more true in the USA where maize flour is very commonly used as a thickener; corn syrup is a very common cheap sweetener, too in processed foods. Plus nearly all the maize in the USA is GM, and that carries its own controversies. It's precisely because maize is relatively much less used in the UK (and shouldn't be any GM maize) that I felt ok about giving my babies maize here.

Zebra: I'm American! Thanks for the advice!

I am in Germany and the Hipp jars here have pureed corn as just one ingredient from 4mths, altough I only introduced it at about 6.5mths when it was included with Turkey and Rice - quite yummy and sweet.

I am in Germany and the Hipp jars here have pureed corn as just one ingredient from 4mths, altough I only introduced it at about 6.5mths when it was included with Turkey and Rice - quite yummy and sweet.

thanks so much for the input!

Do be warned - kids poo it out pretty well entire...