What's the banana test?

[Snot2010YetBaby]

It was mentioned here.

I can guess that it involves testing to see if a weaning-age baby eats banana

I was wondering how you offer it, at what sort of age, and why banana?

Curious as DC2 (19 weeks) is reaching (well, swatting) for my cooked carrots - reckon I might try introducing something other than bfing later in Jan.

Does this help?

No idea why banana!

Yes that's what I meant

People were talking about it on MN a bit in the weeks following that Telegraph article

That Telegraph article is very poorly written. And I assume the solids at 6 weeks thing is a typo or maybe I'm naive?

Banana presumably because it's easy, doesn't require cooking, is a good first texture, most babies like it and is widely available.

Why NOT a banana?

And as for when, around the middle of the first year.

I think the beauty of it is that if your child can sit unsupported, reach for it, bite, chew and swallow then it's ready. Every child will be ready at a different time.

Ginger - the verdict at the time was it should have been most people switching to formula after 6 weeks. We speculated the writer was unfamiliar with all things baby...