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Easy Green Bean Baby Food

Learn how to make quick and flavorful Green Bean Baby Food as a baby-led weaning food or as a Stage 1 or 2 puree. Plus, find tips on how to store and combine the puree with other flavors to make yummy baby food combinations.

Green Bean Baby Food

Green beans are such a common veggie and one that can be flavored in so many ways that it’s a wonderful option for baby. I love making the puree and offering a whole bean as different texture experiences, so you can choose the one that works best for where you are in your baby-feeding journey.

Read on to learn how to make a basic Green Bean Puree, how to serve Green Beans as a BLW food, options for easy baby food combinations with green beans, and tips for green bean finger foods.

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Ingredients You Need

Here’s a look at the ingredients you need to make this baby food recipe, whether as a puree or a baby-led weaning food.

Green beans: I am showing this recipe using fresh green beans, but you can use yellow beans, French beans, or frozen green beans.
Olive oil: Olive oil adds some flavor and fat and makes the food taste better.

See the Notes at the end of the recipe for options to turn the puree into a baby food combination by pairing it with other purees.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Below is an overview of how to make this baby food recipe. Scroll to the end of the post for the full amounts and timing info.

Add the green beans to a steamer basket set in a pot with water. Set pot over medium heat, and when the water starts to steam, cover pot.
Cook until the green beans are tender when poked with a fork. Let cool slightly.
Serve one at a time, baby-led weaning style.
Or, to make a puree, transfer to a blender with olive oil. Blend until smooth.

Green Beans for Baby-Led Weaning

You can serve cooked green beans to a baby feeding themselves in the baby-led weaning style of eating. As long as the green beans are soft and tender, they are a great food for babies to eat starting around 6 months, or whenever they start solids.

Green Bean Puree

You can serve green bean puree on a baby spoon or in a reusable pouch, depending on how you prefer or where you’ll be. It stores well and is easy to vary the flavor as you like.

Green Bean Baby Food Combinations

To vary the flavor and nutrients in this as a Stage 2 baby food, you can combine Green Bean Baby Food with any of the following purees:

Best Apple Puree (with Flavor Combinations + Storage Tips))

There’s no one right serving size for every child, so start with a smaller amount and offer more as indicated by baby. When they turn their head or close their mouth, end the meal—it’s usually pretty obvious when they want to be done!

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Easy Pear Puree (Plus Easy Storage Tips)

Use ripe pears—they should give just a little to the touch and smell like a pear—for the best flavor in this puree. Some babies may want a few spoonful, some a bowlful. Follow baby’s cues to determine the right amount for them.

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Easy Sweet Potato Puree

Perfectly creamy Sweet Potato Puree is a very favorite easy side dish (and baby food!). This is delicious in fall, takes less than 30 minutes, and can be flavored in all sorts of ways.

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Easy Chicken Puree

This chicken puree is a nutrient-rich baby food that's easy to make and packed with flavor. It's a quick blend of chicken and sweet potato that's versatile, so you can make it as a Stage 1 or 2 baby food.

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Easy Avocado Puree

This easy baby food is rich in healthy fats, super smooth, and has a mellow flavor. This is a great puree to make when you're eating something like tacos so you can have some, too!

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Butternut Squash Baby Food Puree

You can make this puree to feed to a baby or toddler, or as a simple side dish for the whole family to share.

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How to Store

Store the puree in airtight containers in the fridge for up to 5 days. Or freeze in an ice cube tray overnight, transfer to a freezer bag, remove as much air as you can and freeze for up to 6 months. Thaw 1-2 cubes overnight in the fridge in a container or at room temperature for about an hour.

Best Tips for Success

Green Bean Baby Food Combination: Mix with equal parts Apple Puree, Sweet Potato Puree, Pear Puree, Avocado Puree, Chicken Puree, or another favorite puree.
Use frozen green beans in place of fresh and reduce the cooking time by 2 minutes or so.
Use water, no-salt-added broth of any type, breastmilk, or formula as the liquid when blending the puree.
You may also enjoy Beets for Baby.

Baby Food

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Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 8 minutes

Total Time 18 minutes

Author Amy Palanjian

Cuisine American

Course Baby Food

Calories 44kcal

Servings 6 8

▢ 1 pound green beans (stems trimmed)
▢ 1 tablespoon olive oil

Add the green beans to a steamer basket set in a pot with 4 inches of water. Set pot over medium heat and when the water starts to steam, cover pot.
Cook for 8-10 minutes, or until the green beans are tender when poked with a fork. Let cool slightly.
Serve one at a time, baby-led weaning style. (Optionally, toss in a little olive oil before serving.)
Or, to make a puree, transfer to a blender with the olive oil. Blend smooth, adding ½-¾ cup water or no-salt-added broth at a time to make a smooth puree.

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Storage Containers

Store the puree in airtight containers in the fridge for up to 5 days. Or freeze in an ice cube tray overnight, transfer to a freezer bag, remove as much air as you can, and freeze for up to 6 months. Thaw 1-2 cubes overnight in the fridge in a container or at room temperature for about an hour.
Green Bean Baby Food Combination: Mix with equal parts Apple Puree, Sweet Potato Puree, Pear Puree, Avocado Puree, Chicken Puree, or another favorite puree.
Use frozen green beans in place of fresh and reduce the cooking time by 2 minutes or so.
Use water, no-salt-added broth of any type, breastmilk, or formula as the liquid when blending the puree.

Serving: 0.25cup, Calories: 44kcal, Carbohydrates: 5g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 3g, Saturated Fat: 0.4g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g, Monounsaturated Fat: 2g, Sodium: 5mg, Potassium: 160mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 522IU, Vitamin C: 9mg, Calcium: 28mg, Iron: 1mg

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Children's vegetable puree: edible or inedible?

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GOST not Decree

The tasting of vegetable puree was conducted by specialists who have devoted many years to the development of baby food. Their opinion can be trusted. But we want to warn you: it is impossible to guarantee that the child will like the same puree as the experts (rather, you should rely on your own taste). Much more important is compliance with safety requirements. And most of the samples we tested meet the standards. Most, but not all.

Let's deal with quality

Andrey Mosov, head of the expert department of NP Roskontrol, doctor:

“Characteristics such as sweetness, bitterness or “unexpressed taste” are subjective. Parents most often pay attention to the water content of the product. The presence of water in the composition of vegetable puree is not bad for the first feeding. You just need to understand that water is a cheaper raw material than a pumpkin.”

Irina Konokhova, leading expert of NP Roskontrol, doctor:

“Indeed, in most of the tested vegetable purees, the mass fraction of chlorides (i.e. salt) is 0.2%, and in the Babushkino Lukoshko, Heinz and Semper purees it is 0.3%. Perhaps this is due to the higher natural content of sodium chloride in the feedstock, although it cannot be ruled out that salt was added. However, this intake of salt with complementary foods is acceptable, given the physiological need for sodium in children. The permissible mass fraction of chlorides in children's vegetable puree is 0.6%, and this figure is not exceeded in the tested samples.

How about sterility?

Let's start with the main thing: all samples meet the requirements of industrial sterility. Pesticides were not found in any of the samples, and all samples meet the standards in terms of nitrate content.

In addition, the puree was checked for 5-hydroxymethyl furfural content . It was not found in any of the samples.

All preservatives and sweeteners are prohibited in baby food. We checked the puree for the presence of sorbate, benzoate, sulfur dioxide (these are preservatives) and determined the mass concentration of sweeteners. Parents can be calm: no preservatives or sweeteners were found in the samples.

One in the jar, another on the label

Andrey Mosov, head of the expert department of NP Roskontrol, doctor:

in pumpkin puree should be 3. 6% (in boiled pumpkin - 4.6%).

Summing up and drawing conclusions

Roskontrol experts noted that the manufacturer of puree Semper misleads the consumer about the presence of sugar in the composition. A mark "Bebivita" does not correspond to the actual product name - it is indicated in small print on the back of the label ("Complementary food product - mashed pumpkin and potatoes").

Puree “Spelyonok” has the inscription “fortified with vitamin C” illegally placed: the actual mass fraction of ascorbic acid in this sample is four times less than indicated in the label. Plus, on all samples, except for Bebivita puree, information about the nutritional value in terms of carbohydrate content is distorted.

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How do you color the taste of childhood? Expertise "Tarhuna"

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Test results

Taste and color

Since taste and color are important criteria for choosing a drink for most buyers, we will start with them.
The classic tarragon recipe used only a few ingredients and was based on the green mass of tarragon (a plant called tarragon in Georgia and Armenia). The result was a drink with a rich, slightly tart taste.
The modern recipe allows the use of "flavors identical to natural", so it is not always possible for manufacturers to reproduce this taste. Which of the participants in the examination succeeded?

Damir Yarlushkin, Leading Expert, Roskontrol:

“Natural tarragon contains rutin, carotene, flavonoids, aromatic essential oils and other biologically active substances. Let in a small amount, but all of them are present in drinks produced on the basis of natural raw materials. In addition, essential oils increase the biological stability of the drink. Synthetic flavoring is a cheaper and more stable component compared to tarragon infusion, which is produced throughout the year, while extragon can only be harvested in a certain season.

Non-children's pranks

Andrey Mosov, Head of Roskontrol's expert department:

'With regard to some synthetic dyes, there is indeed information about their possible negative effect on the activity and attention of children. The point in research regarding such an effect of dyes on children has not yet been set, but the technical regulation TR TS 022/2011 requires that a warning label about this must be in the labeling of products containing these dyes. Of course, if we are talking only about the occasional consumption of drinks with synthetic dyes, their negative effect is unlikely to manifest itself, but caution does not hurt in any case.”

Get drunk and not get poisoned

The safety indicators for all samples are normal. The declared preservatives are contained in "Drinks from Chernogolovka" and "Novotersky" .

It is also worth noting that in all samples, except for "Mingaz" , sugar is declared in the composition, however, when determining the mass concentrations of sugars, it was revealed that the content of fructose, sucrose and glucose indicates the likely use of invert syrup instead of sugar. That, in turn, can be produced from the cheapest raw sugar, which is now imported in large quantities from China.