Is this butter ok for my baby?

[Yupbabs]

I don’t know why she wouldn’t be able to but can my 8 month old have this on whole meal bread?

It’s fine

Why wouldn't she be able to @Yupbabs?

Everything is ok so long as it has no honey in, or shark lol. And as long as it’s cut appropriately and whole nuts are chopped x

I'd be more concerned about the wholemeal bread.
My understanding was very limited or no wholemeal bread (pasta, rice, cereal) before school age.

I don’t like palm oil and I’d avoid it.

I have never heard that. And the spread is fine too. Only things we ever avoided were too much salt and no honey before 1.

It's fine. Keep an eye in the total salt consumption over the day, check how much is in a single slice of bread. The guidance is to mix wholemeal and white bread/rice/ pasta while they are small because too much fibre interferes with vitamin adsorption in young children.

This is correct. Whole meal is recommended for under 2s at it can decrease their appetite.

@CatOnTheChair I'm a chef in a nursery and we only serve wholemeal bread.
No white bread as it can form a dough ball and become a chocking hazard

So because you personally don't like palm oil OP should avoid it 😂

It's an ultra processed food; I would personally buy proper butter instead.

I only use unsalted butter for DS, less processed. I use low fat spread for me because otherwise I eat my own bodyweight in toast with butter.....

@Cas112
Palm oil is one of the ingredients I would avoid as much as possible, as much for environmental reasons as nutritional reasons.
As another poster has said the other ingredients make it an ultra processed food and I would completely steer clear of it for a baby.

I have a theory that in the households where MNers said they don't eat UPF... I'd find lots and lots of UPF being eaten.

@lljkk
You’d find lots of people feeding ultra processed food to 8 month old babies?

Wholemeal is so much healthier!

I wouldnt be surprised at all, perhaps not huge amounts but the bullshit people speak on here makes me laugh

Personally I would give a baby butter, not spreads but thats out of pure preference.

After 6 months baby can eat anything you can except whole nuts, honey and raw shellfish.

If margarine = UPF then I'd wager the vast majority of UK population would give margarine/UPF to an 8m baby old without hesitation, yes.

Also would give the baby very processed white bread/UPF & all sorts of premade baby foods that are also UPF. "30% of all baby food products were UPFs" in 2021 study.

This is from the NHS page "what to feed your baby".

"Bread, rice, potatoes, pasta and other starchy foods
Starchy foods and carbohydratess_, such as bread, breakfast cereals, potatoes, yams, rice, couscous, pasta and chapattis provide energy, nutrients and some fibre.
You can give your child wholegrain foods, such as wholemeal bread, pasta and brown rice. But it's not a good idea to only give wholegrain starchy foods to under-2s.
Wholegrain foods can be high in fibre and they may fill your child up before they have taken in the calories and nutrients they need. After age 2 you can gradually introduce more wholegrain foods".

@lljkk I assume that was aimed at me? I eat very little in the way of UPF and when my son was a baby I kept it to an absolute minimum. I have gluten intolerance and cook 90% of the time from scratch.

Jeez. This is typical Mumsnet competitiveness. 'I churn my own butter and mill my own flour for my precious one.'
A taste of any food is fine at 8 months. A bit of spread on wholemeal bread isn't going to kill them.

The families I know IRL with gluten intolerance ate a lot of UPF. I got impression there was an element of feeling deprived which they made up for with all sorts of other 'special' packaged foods they consumed. They often seem to be both milk & gluten intolerant, so there's a lot of food frustration to feel. I also lived with someone in the 1980s who was Gluten+Milk Intolerant and constantly had digestion problems mostly because she insisted on eating out anyway. I suppose I've seen it managed really badly.

I Had GF breakfast today, come to think of it, tofu. With mustard & curry paste. That's all very much UPF of course. I'm not keen to eat margarine, but really only avoid the hydrog fat ones, which thankfully is fairly easy nowadays.

I have a strong prejudice in favour of wholemeal myself, presuming it's not majority source of calories (which should still be milk at 8m, anyway).

I wonder what OP will do...

What would you class as proper butter?

she doesn’t have this anymore anyway, she has unsalted lurpak

Why’d you add that at the end?

I’ve never even heard of UPF before this thread. I heard olive oil was good for babies and this is olive oil butter.. so I have no clue what’s meant to be good or bad at this point