Bitter Vegetables: How to Safely Feed Bitter Vegetables for Baby-Led Weaning
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Aug 23, 2021
Bitter vegetables can be a crucial part of a baby's diet, helping them develop a diverse palate. It's important for babies to encounter these flavors multiple times before acceptance. Discover when to introduce these foods to minimize nitrate exposure, while ensuring they’re prepared safely to prevent choking hazards. Learn preparation tips for popular choices like Brussels sprouts and spinach, along with insights on how a mother's diet shapes a baby's taste preferences. Embrace the journey of expanding your baby's food horizons!
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Balance Veggies and Fruits
Offer babies vegetables as often as fruits to expand their taste acceptance.
Repeated exposure (10-15 times) helps babies learn to like bitter vegetables.
question_answer ANECDOTE
Bitter Melon Experience in Nepal
Katie Ferraro shares her experience eating bitter melon in Nepal.
It tasted like poison at first but became a favorite after regular eating.
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Biological Bias Against Bitterness
Humans are biologically predisposed to reject bitter foods because bitterness signals potential poison.
Babies often need many exposures before accepting bitter vegetables.
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#155: Can babies eat bitter vegetables? Or is it dangerous to offer bitter foods to your baby? Babies benefit from a variety of taste and flavor exposures, including bitter vegetables. And a baby may need to see a food 10-15 times before he or she likes or accepts it...so don’t turn your back on bitter vegetables just because your baby has rejected these foods a few times!
In this episode we’re exploring bitter vegetables: why should we feed these foods to babies? How do you make bitter vegetables safe for babies to self-feed? What about nitrates in bitter vegetables, are they bad? Come listen to learn the what, when, why and how much about bitter vegetables for baby-led weaning.
Listen to this episode to learn:
WHAT bitter vegetables babies can eat? Think asparagus, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, eggplant and spinach (among others!)
WHEN should babies start eating these foods...and why one of the best ways to reduce exposure to nitrates from these foods is to wait until 6 months to start solid foods - but if you wait too long, the flavor window can close!
HOW to prepare bitter vegetables safely for baby-led weaning since hard and crunchy foods are choking hazards for babies as are raw leafy vegetables
Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.
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