How to make baby beat eat?

Have you made baby discover a large part of the common food? It is then time to think of beets. This vegetable with a very pink color and a naturally sweet flavor will directly attract the curiosity of your little one.

With the beets packaged cooked on the supermarket stalls, this vegetable is practical and easy to offer to baby during the days when time is running out in the kitchen. If you buy this vegetable in bulk, remember to wash and peel the beet before steaming it to make it more melting in the mouth.

How to make baby beat eat?

Baby beet benefits:

Beet is a natural ally filled with benefits and especially baby vitamins.

Vitamin A presents in this pink vegetable helps to keep the skin, bones and baby's eyes healthy. While maintaining good cardiovascular health and preservation of sight will be supported by antioxidants and minerals. Folic acids, on the other hand, will allow baby to keep the cells of his very small body healthy.

This pink vegetable is therefore a real ally for health.

  • Excellent source of antioxidants;
  • Promotes eye health;
  • Contributes to the health of the cardiovascular system.

Beet in baby feeding:

From the start of the BLW , you can introduce the beet in baby's diet.

In order to introduce the real flavor of this red vegetable to your little one, we advise you to offer it from September to March.

The beet will be offered:

From 6 months :

  • in sticks with vegetable oil;
  • in the crushed beet to offer on a carrier or using the pre-filled spoon;
  • in the form of colorful pancakes .
Baby beet in BLW

How to cook baby beets?

Once baby has discovered beets 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 beets:

Smooth texture : a velvety or a beet caviar

Fondant texture : beet sticks, bites, dumplings, etc.

Soft texture : muffins and pancakes

Some recipes with baby beets:

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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