How to get a baby to eat beetroot?

Have you introduced your baby to many common foods? Then it's time to think about beets. This vegetable, with its lovely pink color and naturally sweet flavor, will immediately pique your little one's curiosity.

With pre-cooked, packaged beets available at the supermarket, this vegetable is convenient and easy to offer your baby on days when time is short in the kitchen. If you buy beets loose, remember to wash and peel them before steaming to make them more tender.

The benefits of beetroot for babies:

Beetroot is a natural ally full of benefits and especially vitamins for babies.

The vitamin A in this pink vegetable helps maintain healthy skin, bones, and eyes in your baby. Antioxidants and minerals support good cardiovascular health and vision. Folic acid, meanwhile, helps keep your baby's tiny body's cells healthy.

This pink vegetable is therefore a true ally for health.

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

Beetroot in a baby's diet:

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

To help your little one discover the true flavor of this red vegetable, we recommend offering it to them from September to March.

Beetroot will be offered:

From 6 months :

in sticks flavored with vegetable oil;
beetroot puree to be offered on a conveyor or using the pre-filled spoon;
in the form of colorful pancakes .

How to cook beetroot for baby?

Once your baby has discovered beetroot in its raw form, you can offer it in different ways using delicious recipes to prepare at home. Discover the different textures you can give beetroot:

Smooth texture : a velvety beetroot soup or caviar

Melt-in-your-mouth texture : beetroot sticks, bites, balls, etc.

Soft texture : muffins and pancakes