Tomatoes

[katwith3kittens]

OK, So I've just spent my evening making purees for LO and found myself skinning and de-seeding cherry tomatoes to follow a receipe. Now, I can understand the skinning bit; but why did I have to de-seed the tomatoes ? and at what age can they be safely eaten complete ?

I don't know about official opinion on this one, but my DD has been happily sucking away on half cherry tomatoes since she was 7 months.
It's one of her favourite finger foods.
I tend to suck out some of the juicy bits before giving them to her, but that's only to stop her making quite so much mess and I've never skinned them.

I always wondered this too and still don't know but dh's cousin told me when her brother was young had eaten a tomato, a weeks later had a sore cheek (inside) and it turned out a seed had stayed in between his cheek and gum and started to germinate! With tomatoes being quite acidic I woudl imagine this would be quite sore. As I say I don't know the reason but that was enough to make me carry on de-seeding!

Oh heck ... think I'll de-seed for a bit longer after hearing that Brambalina !