dried apricots

[fireflyz]

I read in a book about weaning that you should thoroughly rinse dried apricots and leave them overnight to soak in water for babies.
At what age do you stop doing this?
Are dried apricots particularly dirty or dusty? (as I don't rinse raisins or leave them to soak and LO is fine)

I've never heard of that! Whoops!

never heard of that either.

They're not going to be easy to digest if they're very tough so for first foods I would soak. Also check that the apricots you are using aren't preserved with sulphate as this isn't recommended for babies.

30 minutes should do it though - not overnight!

Cheers all - I read it in either Anabel Karmel or Gina Ford's weaning books, can't remember which one now.
Re sulphates - if you get organic apricots they aren't preserved with sulphate (they are the ones that are darker in colour).

Never heard of this - but I also found lots of Karmel/Ford-type books over the top and impractical about what they expected. It sounds a good idea if your LO is struggling to eat them, but otherwise entirely unnecessary.

Suspect it is sulphate related. Its easy to get ones that haven't been preserved this way - they are brown, more like the colour of dried prunes. My LO loved them. I give him ordinary ones these days - he's 2.