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Salt

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Snowpaw · 23/04/2019 18:44

Just gearing up to start weaning shortly and I’m a bit confused about salt. I understand not to add any salt to anything I make, but family staples I buy like bread, cheese, hummus etc all have salt as an ingredient - are they ok for baby but just in small amounts? How much is too much?!

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Megasaur5keeper · 24/04/2019 20:16

www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/childrens-health/how-much-salt-do-babies-and-children-need/

This has amounts. I can't eat hummus myself because of a weird range of allergies but it strikes me as pretty easy to make your own with no added salt? (That's not meant to be snotty "make everything from scratch" type comment btw). Or is it the tahini stuff that's loaded with salt?

Kallo do low salt stock if you make soup or need stock cubes; I just about had a heart attack when I checked the back of a stock pot packet and discovered the salt content. (It's possible having used them fir years I will have a heart attack anyway. 14g of salt per pot!)
I think you just have to be sensible about things and keep an eye on amounts of cheese etc you're giving. The amounts of solids they eat at the start are pretty small so I'm adopting a policy that if one meal has cheese in it the rest of the day has no added salt or salty ingredients.

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