Daft question alert! What yogurt is best for babies?

[mrsleomcgary]

When the nurse saw us and gave us the info about weaning she was great and have us loads of info. During which she mentioned yogurt is great for babies but watch out for the sugars as, for example, there's a lot in things like petit fillos and munch bunch. I bought natural yogurt thinking I would sweeten it with strawberries but it was still too sour, I now have a pot on onken, mango, papaya and passionfruit which she LOVED but tastes really sweet to me.

Any suggestions on what is a good choice for her? I've seen the plum ones but would like to avoid paying £2 for 6 tiny pots!

I bought the natural full fat type like you did and I added fruit.

Maybe you could stew some pears and add them when they have cooled down. They can be quite sweet. It could be that the strawberries were just not sweet enough naturally. Sometimes they aren't. Mangos are quite sweet too. I would just keep trying if I were you.

Little yeos have less sugar than petits filous, my dd (8.5months) has those.

Also Ella's kitchen are great too. But more expensive.

Full fat Greek yoghurt is fab - not sour at all, and you can still add fruit purée if you want. All the yoghurts aimed at young children have added sugar or hidden added sugar (where it is concentrated fruit juice instead, which is basically the same as adding ordinary sugar).

Just coming on to say full fat greek yoghurt too. Nom.

Yeo valley full fat natural yoghurt. No need to sweeten it with anything.

Petit filous do have a fair amount of sugar, but I think most kids have them.

The least sour (I know what you mean, they're quite tangy) natural yoghurt I've found is Lidl. Comes in a bucket with handle

You can also get plain - as in unflavoured, unsweetened - fromage frais, and add fruit to that to make a healthier, homemade version of petit filous. (Petit filous is not a yoghurt... the nitpicker in me always gets annoyed when HVs etc. refer to anything in a tub as a yoghurt).

Fromage frais doesn't have the sourness of yoghurt and is higher in calories, but then it also doesn't have the probiotic cultures of yoghurt (useful to keep things functioning during a course of antibiotics). We tend to use both

Just total Greek yogurt. No need to add anything. It doesn't need to be sweet and they won't know any difference. Can add fruit if you like

Full fat Greek yoghurt here too.

My oldest isn't so keen, but he had the sugary baby types first. I did prefer the Little Yeos and I think the plum baby, add they had slightly less added sugar and juice concentrate.

The wee one sees me eating it and wants some usually.

You might not need to sweeten it at all. DD eats full fat natural yogurt and has never refused it. I couldn't eat it mind!

Ella's kitchen are ok I think and are 2 for £2 in asda so for 12 yoghurt which is quite cheap. I did do all the natural yoghurt and stewed fruit when they were younger but don't bother now

Today I bought big tub of full fat Greek yoghurt from Aldi for baby's first yoghurt. He's ds2 and will use it up.

Ds1 I alwAys used to buy smaller tubs as I hate waste but they cost more. Sweeten with home made fruit purées.

I also used little star brand... Who is that by? But by then ds was older.

Nowadays it's Aldi petit filous for ds1

We use full fat Greek yoghurt. DD (8.5 months) loves it, she's never had the sweet stuff so doesn't miss it!

Plum and Ella's Kitchen have no added sugar to the best of my knowledge. Greek or natural yoghurt is good although not so convenient.

I've always bought Plum Baby. Shortest ingredient list! Babies love them and I don't think a little concentrated fruit juice is going to rot anyone's teeth.

Lidl full fat Greek here. When they want stuff added I shove some frozen fruit in.

Another fan of the Lidl full fat greek yoghurts for weaning ds2. Esp as they come in packs of 4 individual pots, so one little pot usually keeps for a couple of days once opened. There's no way we'd get thru one of those huge tubs in this house before it went off.

I batch stew some apples and pears and puree them, then pop some in tiny pots/ice cube tray and freeze. Then just have to remember to defrost in fridge for a few hours before using.

Ds1 is 3.7 and was weaned on Petit Filous He now just has whatever is on offer! (And dentist is happy with teeth, it's just I worry about ds2 developing a very sweet tooth, like me).

We started off with natural Yeo valley and mixed fruit purée in sometimes, sometimes not and found they both acquired the taste, my 3 year old will still eat plain yoghurt. Most of the time now he has fruit flavoured Little Yeos and occasionally will have a petit filou or similar. I found after starting him with natural, he often wouldn't finish the sweeter ones when they were offered, they do get used to it.

Little Yeos now do a mini version with mixed flavours for babies, my 7 month old has those or plain with squished blueberries or fruit pot, or just plain!

Lots of the "no added sugar" baby yoghurts have super-concentrated fruit puree/juice in it, which is basically no different to refined sugar.

Yeah, it's not tooth decay that worries me about added sugar, it's more that I don't want everything to be sweet all the time. So much stuff for children is sweetened and I want my DS to be happy with food that isn't sweet.

Ds3 has petit filou.

He eats a healthy diet and I think it's kind of mean to give babies lots of revolting "unsweetened" stuff (can't bear natural yoghurt) which I wouldn't eat myself.

Let them enjoy food fgs.

I like Greek yoghurt Prefer it to sweet/flavoured ones.