How to make the banana eat baby?

Banana is one of the first fruits that baby is discovered during the food diversification led by the child. With its sweet and naturally sweet flavor, banana seduces the smallest. This fruit is a bit special to introduce in baby's diet ... Banana tends to slide baby's hands!

The stalls are always filled with bananas, but how to choose them for baby? The color of this fruit gives an index on its maturity. Favor bright yellow bananas, they will be melting in the mouth and perfect for baby. Banana can also have some small brown spots. Avoid still green bananas that will be too hard or bananas becoming brown who will crash into baby's hands.

How to make the banana eat baby?

Baby banana benefits:

Banana is an excellent fruit to offer BLW to baby from the start of BLW. With its large fiber composition, bananas are perfect for promoting good intestinal transit and preventing constipation and diarrhea. In addition, this fruit is made up of vitamin C contributing to the health care of bones, cartilage and teeth, B6 vitamins essential for metabolism and good brain development and vitamin A playing a role in strengthening the immune system.

In addition, banana is rich in natural, slow and fast sugars bringing soft energy to the body!

This yellow fruit is a real ally for health.

  • Fiber -rich
  • Rich in vitamins A, C and B
  • Regulates intestinal transit

Banana in baby's diet:

From the start of the BLW , you can introduce bananas into baby's diet.

In order to discover the true flavor of this yellow fruit at your little one, you can offer it throughout the year .

Banana will be offered:

From 6 months :

  • in half banana with the skin at the end;
  • in the form of muffins .

From 8 months : half banana cut into sticks

From 10 months : in rings cut in half

How to offer baby bananas in a fun and safe way

Attention points with baby bananas:

Banana is a long fruit that is part of food at risk . With a good cutting of this yellow fruit, you can offer it without any concern for baby. The banana has the annoying tendency to slide into baby's hands. For good support, we start by offering bananas with skin on one end. This format is completely suitable for small ends from 6 months.

How to cook baby bananas?

Once baby has discovered bananas in its raw form, you can offer him in different ways using gourmet recipes to prepare at home. Discover the different textures that can be given to bananas in the baby's plate:

Smooth texture : a compote, a foam, etc.

Liquid texture : a smoothie, a milkshake, etc.

Lower texture : donuts, bites, cakes, pancakes, etc.

Crustive texture : cookies, bars, cookies, etc.

Soft texture : muffins and pancakes

Some recipes with baby bananas:

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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