Honey cooked with food for 10mo

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This is probably a stupid question but I hope someone can help.

DD (10 months) is eating with us tonight (usually we don't eat early enough so I give her something separately) and I want to roast the carrots and glaze with honey towards the end of the cooking time.

Obviously honey is not allowed under 1 year because of potential harmful bacteria - is it ok if I'm going to cook it? Surely if there was any of this bacteria cooking would kill it?

No it's not ok if you cook the honey. It's the spores that can't be removed by cooking. See the wikipedia article on infant botulism

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism#Infant_botulism

And specially note the paragraph
Although the botulinum toxin is destroyed by thorough cooking over the course of a few minutes,[19][20] the spore itself is not killed by the temperatures reached with normal sea-level-pressure boiling, leaving it free to grow and again produce the toxin when conditions are right.[21][22]

I would just use sugar or syrup to glaze the carrots.

If it's as easy to remove by cooking, there would not recommendation to not feed honey. If you read the NHS pages say on pregnant women and soft cheese, they do specifically say when cooked thoroughly, it's fine to eat soft cheese. Hope this helps btw!

Brown sugar would be nice too.

Brilliant thanks for the quick responses and for all that info! I think I will take hers out before putting honey on ours