Can anyone tell me about babies and tomatoes?

[SpeccieSeccie]

I've heard that tomatoes are not ideal baby food and that some babies develop allergies to them. Does anyone know why this is or when it is safe give them to babies? Is cooked tomato a problem? I've heard the same thing about strawberries too. Could it be the seeds?

All answers gratefully received. Thanks.

All I know was I craved them when expecting DS1 and he loves them. Didn't really have them with DD and she won't eat them!

I craved them too, ate an absolute tonne of anything red - tomatoes, beetroot, radishes, salmon. And anything too green was just gross.

We're doing BLW and I want to check it's ok to give tomato pasta type things.

i gave dd cooked toms but she didn't ever like raw and developed a wee sensitivity to them so i was glad i'd never forced her.

have given nearly 8m BLW DS3 raw tomatoes and cooked in pasta sauce from quite early on - he loves them.

We have no allergies history though

I am senistive to raw tomatoes but fine when they're cooked. They are very acidic and there is a protein in them which people can be sensitive to but it's brokwn down when they're cooked.

AFAIK cooked toms should be fine (and are better for you than raw ones) but if a baby/child doesn't want to eat them raw they shouldn't be forced IYSWIM.

Thanks everyone.

I'm not sure that DS (6 months, no teeth) would be able to gum on raw tomatoes successfully so they will wait for later. But cooked tomatoes are in loads DH and I eat so just wanted to check about that. Good to hear we can include them.