Anyone know about these foods for babys?

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Does anyone know if a baby(7 months old) can have soya milk, mineral water, bell peppers with skin on, tinned beans preserved in salted water(haricot, black eye, butter beans,etc) aubergine, pine nuts. Would be grateful for more info, if anyone has it.

Well water in a bottle is fine but some brands are better than others, for example Evian and Vittel are given daily to babies on the continent. Some UK bottled water contain far too much nitrates (regulation in the UK is far more lenient)...
Soya milk is another debate... some people would really recommend avoiding soy for babies... have a look at this website :

I know people who disagree with this so ---- a hot issue ! Soya foods are usually recommended from 12 months onwards.

I don't know what bell peppers are... but peppers and aubergines in general are prefered at 12 months.
You can experiment earlier and check for any reaction.

Beans are fine from 6 months onwards... do you need to buy them in tins though ??? They are likely to be too salted ! maybe rinse them well before using them ?

Don't know about pine nuts (love them myself) I would go for them in reasonable quantities.

Some of my info was checked in Suzannah Olivier's What should I feed my baby (an excelleny book BTW!)

Hi,

Although I love pine nuts too - be careful. Having recently discovered I have a nut allergy I've been told to avoid all nuts including amazingly enough) - pine nuts, seasme seed, poppy seed etc until I've been completely tested. As a rule of thumb I've been told that my dd (2.5) should avoid all the same things until she's at least 5.0. My GP recommended that all allergies that are present in the parents (food wise) should be avoided in the children until they are over 5.0. So... if you have any food allergies that you are aware of you are best off ensuring that your child is not exposed to them either. - Hopefully this is overkill for most parents.

I think bell peppers are the usual red/green/orange/yellow sweet peppers? Is capsicum another name for them? Used to give DS2 terrible wind at 7 months!

Personally I'd not use beans preserved in salted water. I certainly managed to find buter beans in plain water.

Agree about Evian water - read the label on a bottle and check the mineral content against other brands. I think it's the sodium and potassium that are lowest in Evian.

I've been using Evian since dd was 6 months - used it for all her bottles and also as a top up water drink. It's also the brand they recommend in France - I don't think anyone uses colled boiled water (I never bothered - so much easier).
SoupDragon, capsicum is just another term for peppers

thanks everyone for the advice, now I can let dd share my mineral water uot of bottle!

I gave my babe mineral water when he was eight months old while on holiday in Italy. I then started to give him normal tap water a couple of months later and no problems at all.I would suggest you give your baby a common sense balanced diet. It's amazing what they like one day and not the next. Also teeth do make a difference. Mine didn't really start eating big chunky food until he got his front teeth at a year old.