Olives

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DS (10mo) pinched one of my olives and loved it! We were in nandos so they were the garlicy covered in brine and olive oil kind. It may be stupid but if I got him so jar olives and rinsed them to remove the brine do you think they'd still be too salty to give him as a snack? He loves food with strong flavours and we want to encourage him to eat things like this but im worried about he salt!

The odd olive won't do him any harm IMO. I encouraged mine to eat them but they didn't have them very often, just enough to get them used to the taste.

If the other food he eats is not very salty, it will be good food. It's about diet, not foods.

My one year old loves olives, has done from a very young age. I think as long as their diet is varied and they're not having too many salty foods, it's fine.

A few olives is fine, just be aware of how much salt he is getting in all his foods to make sure he's not having too much.

You can soak olives in water in the fridge for a few days (change the water once or twice a day) and then they give up a lot of their salt. Actually I buy olives in brine and do this for us - then marinade them in rosemary, garlic & olive oil.