Tomatoes & Red peppers

[angel24711]

In the Annabelle Karmell book it says to remove the skins. Is this really necessary?

My 6 month old is doing really well eating purées. Everything is steamed then purreed. The only veg we haven't done is tomatoes and red peppers as I haven't been bothered to removing their skin.

Is the worry that the skin isn't that digestable, surely purreing would mean that it would just be roughage that would pass through their system without doing any harm.

Any advice would greatly appreciated

I think it's not so much that it's not digestible, more that they might gag on large lumps of skin. in particular red pepper skins tend to get really tough when cooked.

personally I did skin tomatoes when dd was younger (which is easy - use a large tomato, cut a shallow line around the middle, and put the whole tomatoin boiling water for 30 sec - skin peels off v easily). However I'm leaving red peppers till dd is older and less likely to gag/choke. No need to do every vegetable!

I wouldn't bother de-skinning them either. Dd could cope with halved cherry tomatoes or strips of red pepper at 6 months so I'm sure your Lo will be fine

AKs info isn't evidence based by the way so as long as you avoid the things on the NHS website you'll be fine.

I never deskinned tomatoes or peppers, ever for any of mine!

Yes to cutting up cherry toms so not a choke hazard but who can be added removing the skin?!

Thanks very much everyone. I did steam and purée a red pepper last night and although the skin didn't create lumps, I think it would have tasted nicer if I had roasted thm and removed the skins

Thanks again.