How to eat baby cheese

Cheese, this essential gourmet and so good! Whether hard or soft dough, goat milk, sheep or cow, it is a food that baby can taste plain or in a preparation throughout the year. Among the multitude of types of cheeses that exist, you will be spoiled for choice to awaken baby's taste buds and make him discover new flavors.

How to eat baby cheese in BLW ?

Baby cheese benefits:

Even if the cheeses are all milk, the manufacturing methods are numerous and each brings its benefits.

Note that generally, hard and less fatty cheeses are the richest in calcium and protein. Calcium is important for the growth and development of bones; The proteins contained in the cheese will be important for baby muscles.

  • Source of calcium;
  • Good quality proteins;
  • Contribution in essential minerals.

Cheese in baby's diet:

From the start of the food diversification led by the child, you can start offering baby cheese.

Pasteurized cheeses as well as cheeses with cooked pressed pasta are to be preferred in baby's diet. You can, for example, offer ricotta, mozzarella, spread, county, beaufort and gruyère.

The cheese will be offered:

From 6 months :

  • Pieces of cheese offered in sticks or in the form of strips. Favor melting textures;
  • in gourmet recipes.
Good ham and cheese muffins to make baby discover!

Attention points with baby cheese:

Cheese contains milk, a food being part of the allergens . Remember to introduce cheese into baby's diet with attention and precaution.

The cheese is mainly composed of salt and protein . It is, then, strongly advised to offer it in small quantities in order to avoid overconsumption which can cause an overload of baby protein. Do not forget to think about the daily protein intake when you offer baby cheese.

Raw milk cheeses will be avoided before baby's 4 years.

Some recipes with baby cheese:

Having started purees at 4 months and wanting to start BLW from 6 months is quite possible. Or you are wondering how breast / infantile milk and BLW combined.

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