How to make baby eat baby flour

Flour is the essential food when you want to start preparing small baby dishes. It is essential to make everything that is pastry, but also muffins, pancakes or savory recipes.

There are a multitude of kinds of flours: enough to prepare lots of various recipes and discover different baby foods.

Just like for fruits and vegetables, you have to make sure to offer flours whose cereals come from organic farming: the quality and purity of cereals will only be better!

 

How to eat baby flour eating?

Baby flour benefits:

There are several kinds of flours and each its benefits.

Infantile flour contains starch, a carbohydrate that digests slowly to bring baby better satiety. Favor that gluten-free for toddlers, it will be easier to digest. There are added sugar -free versions, real interest in baby in order to prevent it from getting used to this taste. Finally, infant flour prepared from complete grains of cereals guarantee all of the naturally present nutrients.

Cereal flours are useful for baby for their wealth of vitamin and minerals as well as for their significant calorie intake. Wheat flour is a fiber -rich cereal, so it contributes to the proper functioning of the baby's body.

Soy or sunflower flours are the right choice for milk -free diets.

Legume flours are difficult to assimilable for baby, but are useful for antidiarrheal diets. They are interesting because they provide good quality proteins and are rich in fiber.

Note that rice, corn, buckwheat and quinoa naturally contain gluten.

Flour in baby feeding:

From the start of the food diversification led by the child, it will be possible to introduce flour into baby's diet.

Flour will be offered:

From 6 months : in recipes adapted to baby's evolution.

Baby Butternut cake from 6 months: Salt sweet recipe

Attention points with baby flour:

Some flours contain gluten, a major allergen to offer baby as quickly as possible. Please use flour after raising baby for three days in a row in gluten. The introduction of an allergen is always fulfilled carefully.

Some flours such as rice, quinoa, buckwheat or even oats do not contain gluten.

How to cook baby flour?

Flour is not a food that we are going to make baby discover in its raw form. This ingredient will always be offered in snack or meal recipes.

Smooth texture : flour (oat, etc.) mixed with infantile milk to make a porridge to offer using the pre-filled spoon.

Fondant texture : flour in Energy Balls, in muffins or pancakes.

Soft texture : flour in preparations of cakes or cookies

Some recipes with baby flour:

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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