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When Can Baby Have Peanut Butter (and 3 Best Ways to Offer It)

When can baby have peanut butter? That’s such a common question among us parents, and it’s normal to be worried about allergic reactions. Thankfully, there are easy ways to offer peanut butter to a baby and simple tips to keep in mind when introducing it for the first time.

When can baby have peanut butter?

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that potentially allergenic foods are introduced early on when starting solids at 6 months. This advice has changed recently and family members may not realize that it’s not advised to wait until a child turns 1 any longer.

In fact, waiting can actually increase the likelihood of a reaction.

How to Introduce Peanut Butter to a Baby Step-by Step

According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, start by considering which group your child falls into:

  1. They have severe eczema and/or an egg allergy. In this case, talk with your doctors about peanut allergy testing and testing a peanut product for the first time in their office. Babies in this group are advised to get their first peanut product between 4-6 months.
  2. They have mild or moderate eczema. Talk to your doctor, but it is likely safe to introduce peanut products around the 6 month mark.
  3. They have no signs of eczema or food allergies. Offer peanut products soon after starting solids as you introduce all sorts of other foods.

TIP: Talk to your pediatrician about any concerns you have, at any time. If you are at all worried, you can always introduce a peanut product in their office with their supervision to alleviate your stress. Just talk to them about your plan ahead of time.

How soon would peanut allergy symptoms appear?

Typically, they appear soon after introducing the food. Symptoms of a peanut allergy may include anaphylaxis (which is the most severe), but also things including vomiting, indigestion, diarrhea, wheezing, repetitive coughing, tightness in the throat, hives, swelling in the mouth, and more.

Diagnosing any food allergy can be complicated, so your best bet is to see a pediatric allergist.

TIP: The good news is that research has shown up to 20 percent of individuals with a peanut allergy eventually outgrow it.

Best Peanut Butter for Babies

Look for a peanut butter without added sugar and opt for creamy to ensure that the texture is smooth for baby. I like Smucker’s Natural Peanut Butter, Whole Foods 365 Store Brand, and Teddies.

There are lot of other options available, so just check the ingredients and look for one without added cane sugar or honey.

How to Avoid Choking With Peanut Products

The simplest way to avoid choking is to never offer actual whole peanuts. You should also avoid chunky peanut butter which will be difficult (and potentially dangerous) for a baby and avoid spoonfuls of straight peanut butter which can get stuck in their mouths.

See below for safe peanut options for baby.

What are the best ways to introduce and serve peanut butter to babies?

I have three favorite ways that I will outline below. They include:

  • Peanut Butter Toast
  • Peanut Butter Puffs
  • Peanut Butter Puree

TIP: I recently saw a tip about grinding nuts into a powder to mix into other foods like oatmeal, which is a great option too. For the first time you offer it, it may make sense to limit the other foods in the same meal so you can be sure to be able to easily isolate the cause if there’s a reaction.

Peanut Butter Toast for Baby

A simple way to offer peanut butter to baby is to spread a very thin layer onto a piece of lightly toasted bread. This is a classic baby led weaning approach where you cut the toast into a piece that’s at least as big as your finger so it’s way too big for the baby to put the entire thing into their mouth.

This is easy for a baby, even one as young as 6 months, to pick up and suck on. (This also works really well with mashed hard cooked egg yolk!)

TIP: Do be sure to lightly toast the bread to reduce the chances that a piece of soft bread will get stuck onto the roof of their mouth.

Peanut Butter Puffs

Another easy way to offer peanut butter to a baby or toddler is to use store-bought peanut butter puffs. The most commonly known one is called Bamba Puffs and Puffworks Baby also makes one. You can find them at Trader Joe’s and on Amazon. They are my favorite because they are big enough for a baby to suck on without putting the entire thing into their mouth.

Peanut Puffs from Mission Mighty Me are a nice options once babies develop their pincer grasp around 9 months.

TIP: The great thing about these is that they dissolve easily in baby’s mouth, are easy to hold, and are a healthy snack food you can continue serving through toddlerhood.

Peanut Butter Puree for Baby

My very favorite way to introduce peanut butter for the first time is to make it into a fluffy puree. It’s so easy, it’s good, and it’s very nutritious with health fats and protein. It’s a perfect no-cook baby food to make at home.

Ingredients You Need for Peanut Butter Puree

To make this puree, you just need natural creamy peanut butter and water. The water helps to fluff up the peanut butter making it into a yogurt-like consistency.

It’s smooth, flavorful, and can be stored for later too.

How to Make Peanut Butter Puree Step-by-Step

Here’s a look at how to make a simple peanut butter puree for a baby.

  1. Add peanut butter and water to a bowl.
  2. Start stirring together.
  3. Keep stirring together as the water begins to look cloudy.
  4. Keep stirring together until the mixture is a uniform texture and color.

TIP: Room temperature peanut butter and/or warmish water make this come together a little more easily than cold peanut butter.

Best Tips for Peanut Butter and Baby

  • Store any peanut butter puree leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
  • Keep stirring if the mixture looks separated. It may take a full minute or more of stirring until the mixture comes together.
  • If it seems thick or sticky, thin it out more with additional water.
  • Choose creamy natural peanut butter without added sugar.
  • Offer a small amount on a spoon or spread a thin layer onto a 1-2 finger-size piece of toast.
  • Stop feeding baby when they turn their head away and close their mouth. (The serving size below is just a ballpark guess.)
  • Consider a peanut puff like the ones from Puffworks Baby.
  • If baby has or had eczema or other food allergies, check with your pediatrician for guidance on introducing food allergens.

Related Recipes

I’d love to hear your feedback on this, so please comment below to share!

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Author Amy Palanjian

Cuisine American

Course Baby Food

Calories 24kcal

Servings 4 -6

  • ▢ 1 tablespoon creamy natural peanut butter (without added sugar if possible)
  • ▢ 2-3 tablespoons water

  • Add the peanut butter and 2 tablespoons water to a bowl.

  • Stir until the mixture starts to come together and the color and consistency are uniformly light and somewhat fluffy. This will take a little bit of time so keep going if and when the peanut butter separates.

  • Add water as needed to make a fluffy puree consistency.

  • Offer on a spoon to baby in small amounts or spread onto a 1-2 finger-size piece of toast.

  • Peanut Butter

  • Mixing Bowl

  • Storage Containers

  • Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
  • Keep stirring if the mixture looks separated. It may take a full minute or more of stirring until the mixture comes together.
  • If it seems thick or sticky, thin it out more with additional water.
  • Choose creamy natural peanut butter without added sugar.
  • Offer a small amount on a spoon or spread a thin layer onto a 1-2 finger-size piece of toast.
  • Stop feeding baby when they turn their head away and close their mouth. (The serving size below is just a ballpark guess.)

Calories: 24kcal, Carbohydrates: 1g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 2g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 1g, Sodium: 19mg, Potassium: 26mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 1g, Calcium: 2mg, Iron: 1mg

Tried this recipe?Rate in the comments and tag @yummytoddlerfood on IG!

This post was first published August 2020.

How to Introduce – Prevent Peanut Allergies

5 Easy Ways to Introduce Peanut Foods

1. Mix with water, formula or breast milk

Thin 2 tsp. of peanut butter with 2-3 tsp. hot water, formula or breast milk. Allow to cool before serving.

2. Mix with food

Blend 2 tsp. of peanut butter into 2-3 tbsp. of foods like infant cereal, applesauce, yogurt (if already tolerating dairy), pureed chicken or tofu.

3. Mix with produce

Stir in 2 tsp.  of powdered peanut butter into 2 tbsp. of previously tolerated pureed fruits or vegetables.

4. Peanut snacks

Give your baby a peanut-containing teething food, such as peanut puffs.

5. Teething biscuits

Teething infants who are older and self-feeding may enjoy homemade peanut butter teething biscuits.

Remember:

  • The recommended way to introduce baby-friendly peanut foods depends on whether your child is at high risk  of developing a peanut allergy.
  • Understand the symptoms of an allergic reaction and what to do.
  • For high-risk infants, the guidelines advise 2g of peanut protein at any meal or snack, three times per week.
  • Depending on your child’s risk, peanut foods should be introduced according to these guidelines after they’ve already started other solid foods.
  • Whole nuts should not be given to children under 5 years of age.
  • Do not give peanut butter from a spoon or in lumps/dollops to children under 4 years of age.

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Nuts in the children's menu | Motherhood

Yulsen , 12/15/03 00:58

My Lisa really fell in love with nuts. And I somehow cautiously give it to her, a little bit ... I don’t know the question. After all, nuts are quite a heavy food ... Has anyone already given to their children after 2 years?

Irina , 12/15/03 00:59

Julia, you can give. Except peanuts. I give Pole walnuts and cedar. Just a little bit. More than 100g anyway, even adults do not digest

Christmas tree , 12/15/03 02:18

Irina , at what age can you start giving a little? What did you start with?

Miami , 12/15/03 04:34

Why are nuts heavy food????? where does this information come from? a much easier source of protein than meat. We have been eating nuts since 8 months, crushed in a blender with almost every meal. Almonds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, flaxseed. A storehouse of vitamins, minerals and protein!

A®Nata , 12/15/03 06:26

Miami

Nastena , 12/15/03 09:16

Nuts are one of the most allergenic foods, our doctors recommend them from the age of three.

lucia , 12/15/03 09:40

QUOTE (Nastena @ 15 Dec 2003, 09:27)

Nuts are one of the most allergenic foods, our doctors recommend them from the age of three.

Irina , 15.12.03 11:33

Herringbone, I started to give somewhere from a year and two months.

Peanut - yes, allergenic nut. And all the others are not.

Miami , 15.12.03 17:39

QUOTE (Nastena @ 15 Dec 2003, 09:27)

Nuts are one of the most allergenic foods, our doctors have been recommending them since the age of three.


this applies only to peanuts and then if there is a hereditary predisposition. I don't give peanuts, just being safe. And in terms of nutritional value, it is inferior to almost all nuts.

Aksinya , 12/15/03 10:10 pm

QUOTE (Miami @ 15 Dec 2003, 10:50 am)

QUOTE (Nastena @ 15 Dec 2003, 09:27 am)

Nuts are one of the most allergenic foods, our doctors recommend them from the age of three.

this applies only to peanuts and then if there is a hereditary predisposition. I don't give peanuts, just being safe. And in terms of nutritional value, it is inferior to almost all nuts.


Miami
Peanuts, moreover, have nothing to do with nuts, they are from the legume family. Very allergic, yes. But that's no reason to avoid real nuts.

Tanya_p , 16.12.03 06:00

I will support Miami (we read the same books after all). Nuts are not a heavy food at all, and nonsense about the allergen. The only thing is that they don’t give it entirely until 2-3 years old, so that they don’t choke, but crushed into porridge from 8 months is possible and necessary.

A®Nata And the peanut is not a nut at all, but from the legume family

0002 Why are nuts heavy food????? where does this information come from?


I don’t know from where ... they’re sitting in my head from somewhere. Either I read it a long time ago, or I heard it somewhere, but I definitely didn’t come up with it myself ... However, it doesn’t matter. The main thing is that it is already possible to give, and even, as it turned out, necessary. I don't give peanuts, we don't have any. I buy packaged assorted nuts (hazelnuts, cashews, almonds, walnuts) mixed with candied fruits, this is what Lisa loves very much.

Irina , 12/16/03 16:21

QUOTE (arinata @ 16 Dec 2003, 03:55)

Irina
And the peanut is not a nut at all, but from the legume family


It's clear. Thank you. Yes, at least from the cruciferous family

Katherine , 01/27/04 21:27

Now I want to ask you moms, do you give nuts to your children. And then my Danka, having tried it, got hooked on them (on hazelnuts). And today I tried to give cashews, they also came to taste. He ate a little thing and asks for more, well, I gave him 2 more pieces, and then I asked myself: "Is it possible?"
Have you tried giving? And if so, in what quantities?

Irishka , 04.02.04 11:37

I also give Katya nuts, in cashew nuts, hazelnuts or pine nuts. 4-5 pcs. she eats at a time. I don't do it often though, maybe once every two weeks.

kapitosha , 06.02.04 21:32

Tanya_p - which books do you read?

dasha , 11.02.04 12:11

And I also had some kind of quirk in my head (and where did it come from?) - that they say, up to 2-3 years, nuts are impossible. Thanks to everyone for the information, apparently I mixed something up - as recently as yesterday, I swore with my mother when she wanted to give Dasha a nut. Now let's try it!

Barsya , 06/20/06 15:59

We rarely give cashews to a child, when dad asks for them And what - soft, tasty. They say that nuts contain protein and many useful substances.

What kind of nuts do you give, where and in what form do you buy?

running on the waves , 06/20/06 4:13 pm

We love pine nuts. We buy them in a package, not by weight. True, you need to be more careful with nuts - many children are allergic to them.

Nelumbo nelumbo , 06/20/06 18:40

The main danger at your age is that you can choke. Until the age of 3, I would not give whole or pieces, but would give frayed, and later I would make sure that "when I eat, I am deaf and dumb."
Allergy - yes, it happens. For inexplicable reasons, there are a lot of people here who have a strong, dangerous allergy to nuts, there are fatal outcomes. They write that a nursing mother should not eat nuts, otherwise the baby may develop an allergy.

inoplanetyanka , 06/24/06 08:20

Oh, nuts are very healthy, because they are a storehouse of protein.
I even read that if a child’s behavior worsens or frequent whims, then nuts should be given. They calm the child’s nervous system and there will be less whims and tantrums !!!
Walnuts and almonds are the best ... But peanuts are not very useful, although not harmful of course)))

Gypsy harmful of course)))

I just read about peanuts that they are often allergic.

Polinka , 06/24/06 15:01

Mine eats cashews and pine nuts. I buy in small packages.

Irina , 08/22/06 23:55

and peanuts are not nuts. I do not give walnuts yet, it seems to me that they are very difficult for a child's body...
Peanuts are not recommended for pregnant women (Komarovsky)

TsiyaPa , 12. 09.06 12:02

Nuts are an allergic product. My mom is starting to choke on hazelnuts, so be careful. I don't give my nuts

kettulisa , 13.09.06 10:28

and I heard that peanuts are just very harmful.
The most allergy-causing nut, as far as I know, is hazel (or in another way like hazelnuts) we are allergic to it. My daughter only tolerates almonds. Yes, and even then I don’t give it in a simple form (unless somewhere in a pie or cake)

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  • Total time: 40 min
    • 7 PHIRS 7 406 kcal
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20 min

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Mousse

Ingredients:

  • Arachis Frying) 200 g
  • Sugar - 200 g
  • Milk - 120 g
  • Cocoa (good) - 1 tbsp.

How to cook

  1. Sherbet with peanuts - very high-calorie and very satisfying! Baby food, nuts, sugar - all these are very "dangerous" delicacies. If extra calories don’t scare you, then I recommend preparing this wonderful dessert!

  2. Cooking time is indicated without taking into account the sherbet hardening, and the bulk of the indicated time will be used to clean the peanut from the shell-shell.

  3. Prepare ingredients for Peanut Sherbet.

  4. Roasted peanuts must be thoroughly dehulled.

  5. Combine sugar, cocoa and milk in a small saucepan or small saucepan.

  6. Bring the mixture to a boil while stirring.

  7. Combine shelled peanuts with baby food.

  8. Combine nut and chocolate mixtures.

  9. Stir until relatively homogeneous.

  10. The resulting thick chocolate mass must be placed in a container of a suitable volume, lined with cling film or parchment paper.

  11. Refrigerate the sherbet for 8-12 hours.

  12. Cover the finished peanut sherbet with a flat plate, turn over, carefully remove the sherbet on a plate, remove the film.

  13. Cut the sherbet into portions before serving.

  14. Bon appetit and all the best!

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