Make your own banana baby food

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04 Peel ripe banana - do not cook

/ breast milk or water to dilute or add oatmeal (if desired) to thicken.

Recipe notes

The first time the banana is offered after processing, either boiled or as directed in the recipe after the microwave oven. After banana puree is introduced into the child's diet, fresh fruit can be offered. nine0003

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Starting breastfeeding is an exciting time for mothers. The baby’s digestion has just improved, he began to normally absorb breast milk or formula, and here it is already necessary to go out on the fragile ice of changing the diet. But nothing can be done, complementary foods are necessary, and it is not worth delaying with its onset beyond 6 months. nine0003

Why is a banana good for a baby?

Sweet banana puree for babies is a storehouse of vitamins, minerals and fiber. Fruit contains:

1. Vitamin complex: C, B, A, E, K
2. Trace elements: potassium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, sulfur
3. Starch (20%)
4. Fiber
5. Serotonin
6. Sucrose

How it works in the baby's body:

1. Vitamins increase immunity (C), participate in the work and formation of the nervous system (B), are responsible for the health of blood (K), skin and blood vessels (A, B), absorption of fats and vitamins A and D (E). nine0016
2. Trace elements help to establish the full functioning of the digestive tract (magnesium, potassium), participate in the growth of bone and dental tissue (phosphorus), saturate the blood with oxygen (iron) and help the liver (sulfur).
3. Starch is a source of energy.
4. Fiber is needed in order to start the work of the intestines.
5. Serotonin has a calming effect and improves mood.
6. Sucrose - energy nutrition for brain cells.
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When to start weaning with a banana

Banana is not considered the best choice for a first weaning food. Young children of the first year of life should first be given vegetable purees. Fruit comes second. First, the sweet taste can overwhelm a baby's desire to try something else. Secondly, the sucrose in the banana will have a more aggressive effect on the intestinal mucosa compared to, for example, potatoes.

So, when can you give banana puree to your baby? The time frame for starting banana complementary foods is 6-8 months. By 6 months, the digestive system of a child of the first year of life is already formed enough to digest coarse fiber. nine0003

Babies who are breastfed start complementary foods later, from six months. They will be given banana puree when they are already familiar with vegetables: zucchini, potatoes, carrots, onions. Artificial feeding involves an earlier introduction of complementary foods (4, 5 - 5 months), so they will be ready for sweets as early as 6 months.

How to properly organize banana complementary foods

Banana complementary foods at this stage of development of the industrial production of baby food can be organized in several ways:

1. Banana puree
2. Banana puree after cooking or otherwise processing the fruit
3. Factory-made puree
4. Banana formula
5. Porridge for children of the first year of life with banana

Each option is valid, but the last two are worth resorting to if the child often has allergies. It is dangerous to give a store-bought fruit to such a baby right away. Even despite the fact that allergies after a banana are extremely rare. nine0003

Dr. Komarovsky says that live fruit can be safely used for early complementary foods for children with normal stools. We scrape the banana pulp with a spoon and start giving from 0.5 teaspoon. Carefully observe the child for a day. We look when the baby goes to the toilet - is there constipation? We examine the skin, looking for allergic manifestations. If everything is fine, we give the same amount of puree the next day. So we continue up to a week, and then we begin to gradually increase the daily dose of . At 10 months, the baby can already easily eat half the fruit.

Banana puree of industrial production is given according to a similar scheme. You can try to give it even when the baby has an increased tendency to allergic reactions. Manufacturers on the labels write that they take fruits that have not been treated with chemicals for their products. This makes their puree as hypoallergenic as possible. The positive experience of parents shows that such statements can be trusted. At least, according to the statements of major manufacturers with a worldwide reputation. nine0003

The question arises, at what age and how to feed babies who have problematic stools? Also from 6-8 months. But it is better to use processed fruit, we will offer the recipe for such a dish below. The scheme is the same as in the previous cases. But, if you see that a new supplement to the child’s diet strengthens, you will have to give up this lightweight option. Try again after introducing porridge at 8 months. Porridges normalize digestion well and relieve constipation.

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The simplest recipe is to scrape banana pulp with a spoon. It's great for the first two to three weeks when you need very little puree. For the rest of the time, use our tips. nine0003

Banana Puree Recipes

1. Buy a smooth yellow banana without any spots. Rinse thoroughly in warm running water and clean.
2. Mash a banana with a fork or three on a fine grater. We dilute a little with water, breast milk. Or grind the fruit with a blender. Pour some water and milk into the bowl immediately.
3. Give only after the main meal. After a year, you can replace the water with any fruit juice that does not cause allergies. nine0016

Banana porridge

The following recipe should only be used when you are sure that you are not allergic to the banana. After preparing the porridge, cool it to the desired temperature, and add a few tablespoons of fresh banana puree.

How to make mashed banana

The first recipe involves cooking. To do this, hold the fruit in a steam bath for 3-4 minutes. After we prepare the puree in any of the ways proposed above. nine0003

The second recipe aims to remove excess liquid. Gently squeeze the banana pulp through cheesecloth. Then bring to the desired consistency with boiled water and give the baby.

The effect of a banana on digestion: strengthens or weakens

A fresh banana, from which we prepare complementary foods, strengthens. Sometimes this is not critical and the baby's stool remains within the normal range. But children of the first year of life who suffer from chronic constipation should not aggravate the situation. nine0003

The exception is when the child is still constantly emptied only with the help of a laxative. In such a situation, what the banana strengthens no longer matters. Because the normal stool of the crumbs is provided artificially, and not due to its own intestinal activity.

Allergic reactions to banana food

Food allergy to banana in babies of the first year of life is extremely rare. From this side, it is considered safe. Small children, even infants, can be given safely. But there are some nuances. nine0003

Calling a banana an exotic fruit is a bit of a stretch. Yes, it does not grow in our area and it is brought by planes and ships. But it was included in the diet of modern young mothers and fathers from early childhood. Genetically, the banana is already firmly entrenched in our diet and is not something alien to the body, like, for example, passion fruit or kumquat.

Therefore, it is perceived more easily and brings more benefits. But why then do some parents claim that when they introduced banana complementary foods, their crumbs developed an allergy? The fact is that for better preservation, fruits are always treated with chemical compounds. These substances can penetrate the skin and be deposited in the pulp. It is on them, and not on the banana itself, that children develop an allergy. nine0003

Banana puree is a necessary and healthy product. Banana enriches the baby's diet with useful substances. At what age to give it to a child, each parent decides based on the individual situation of the growth and development of their baby and the recommendations of pediatricians.

We offer you a very interesting recipe for oatmeal with banana for children over one year old.

Bananas are an affordable fruit that won our hearts and the hearts of our children. The delicate texture of the pulp is to the taste of both infants and adults. Today we will talk about the different options for making banana puree. nine0003

The variety of bananas and their size have absolutely no effect on the final result. Banana puree is soft and delicious. It is important when choosing fruits to pay attention to their quality and ripeness.

Bananas that are slightly unripe and without dark spots on the skin are best for preparing baby food. It is even permissible to use fruits with a barely noticeable green near the stem. The pulp of such bananas is dense, without darkening and friability.

If bananas are harvested for future use, then fruits with a darkened peel can be used here, without visible damage to the pulp. Brown places are necessarily cut off. nine0003

How to make delicious banana dessert

Peel a bunch of bananas (4-5 pieces). Cut the pulp of all fruits into wheels 6-7 millimeters thick. Leave a part of banana rings (6-8 pieces) for decoration, break the rest until smooth with a blender. In the resulting puree, add 1 tablespoon of honey and the juice of one lemon. Whip the puree for another 30 seconds.

Toast 2 tablespoons of peeled hazelnuts in a dry frying pan. Grind the cooled kernels with a blender into crumbs. nine0003

Fry the remaining banana rings in a pan until browned on both sides.

Put the finished puree into bowls with a wide bowl. Top with a few wheels of fried bananas, and sprinkle the dessert with chopped nuts.

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Banana puree for kids

Simple recipe without additives

Ripe bananas are peeled and ground until smooth. For this manipulation, you can use a fine grater, sieve, food processor or blender. The more homogenized the mass is, the thinner the puree will be. nine0003

With added water

If the child is very small and perceives complementary foods only with a very liquid consistency, then banana puree is diluted with the required amount of warm boiled water.

It is best to start giving banana puree to a child from boiled fruits. To do this, pieces of banana pulp are pre-boiled in a small amount of water for 7-8 minutes. For one medium fruit, 50 milliliters of liquid will be enough. Then the boiled slices are pureed until smooth and cooled before serving to an acceptable temperature. nine0003

With added milk

From the year, banana puree can be diluted with boiled milk. To do this, excess liquid is drained from boiled bananas, and hot boiled milk is added instead. The mass is crushed with a blender or fork, and served at the table.

With added juice

If the child is not allergic to citrus fruits, you can dilute baby banana puree with freshly squeezed orange juice. At the same time, banana pulp can be used both raw and boiled. nine0003

Baked bananas

Two peeled bananas, washed well under running water. Line a small heat-resistant bowl with foil or parchment paper. Fruits in the peel are laid out in a baking dish. Keep bananas in an oven preheated to 120 degrees for half an hour. After that, the fruits are taken out and cleaned. It is better to do this over a bowl in which the pulp will be mashed in the future in order to preserve the resulting juice as much as possible. It is very tasty and fragrant. You can also drain the juice from the baking dish. nine0003

Then 100 milliliters of water is added to the banana pulp and the fruit is ground to a puree state.

Prepared food is brought to a boil over medium heat and cooled to a temperature of 37-38 degrees.

Banana puree with apples for the winter

Banana puree can be prepared in advance. To do this, take one kilogram of bananas and two ripe apples. It is best to use sour varieties of apples, for example, Antonovka.

Apples and bananas are peeled and cut randomly. The slices are ground to a puree state with a blender or food processor. Also, fruits can be grated on a fine grater, but in this case, the finished dish will be with grains. nine0003

Two 200-gram glasses of water and three glasses of sugar of the same volume are added to the crushed banana-apple mass. Also, the juice of two lemons is poured into the fruit puree. Puree is sent to the fire for 30 minutes.

Skim the foam several times while the puree is cooking. The finished hot banana dessert is poured into sterile jars and sealed tightly with boiled lids.

Store such a blank for a year in any dark and cool place.

Age - from 6 months

Today, pediatricians are of the opinion that it is worth starting any complementary foods at 6 months, and complementary foods with fruit purees - only after the introduction of vegetables and cereals into the baby's diet. Ideal as the first fruit complementary food -. Then you can try plum, banana and other fruits.

Plain Banana Complementary Puree

Serving Options:

Ingredients to Prepare:

• 1 banana

A more mature banana is enough to mash with a fork. You can add some boiled water to make it thinner. Places where the skin has darkened must be cut off!

How to make banana puree for babies

1. Banana puree with apricots and porridge

Ingredients:

• 2 apricots
• 4 tbsp. spoons of water
• 10 g rice flakes or any other prepared porridge
• banana half
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Step-by-step recipe Baby banana puree :

1. Pour hot water into the container.
2. Cut whole apricots vertically and horizontally.
3. Put in water for a couple of minutes, then the skin will be very easy to remove.
4. Apricots should be skinned and pitted, then cut into small pieces and crushed.
5. Simmer the apricots for about 10 minutes under a closed lid in a little water. Be careful not to burn the puree. nine0016
6. Mix apricots with banana and puree with a blender (you can also just mash with a fork).
7. Mix fruit puree with rice cereal or any other prepared porridge.

2. Apple-banana puree for baby food

Ingredients:

• apple half
• banana half

Step by Step Recipe Apple Banana Puree :

1. Peel the apple well and cut into small pieces. nine0016
2. Plunge into a saucepan with a little water (50 ml) and bring to a boil.
3. Cook for about 7 minutes over low heat.
4. Peel the banana and cut off the ends.
5. Puree apples and bananas, let cool slightly.

3. Apple and banana puree with juice

Ingredients:

• 1 apple
• 1 banana
• 2 tbsp. spoons of orange juice (or any other)

Step-by-step recipe Banana Puree with Juice :

1. Peel the apple, grate it on a fine grater - for children from 9 months. For babies, it is better to pre-cook the apple in slices, as in the previous recipe.
2. Mash the banana with a fork and combine with the apple, stir.
3. Finally add juice.

Banana puree is conditionally suitable for feeding infants and the first feeding of children up to a year (from 6 months). Given the fact that a banana is an exotic fruit, it is worth introducing it after an apple and a pear. nine0003

Banana puree is considered a very good baby food. Pediatricians recommend introducing it to a child when the baby is 5-6 months old. Of course, to be completely sure, you should consult your pediatrician about this product. Well, the recipe for mashed bananas is very simple. Therefore, there will be no problems with the preparation of this dish.

If you are looking for an easily digestible and at the same time high-calorie and healthy food, then banana puree for babies is an ideal option. After all, it contains a lot of vitamins A, B and C, starch, proteins, sugar. nine0003

To make banana puree, you need to take a small, well-ripened fruit and make sure that there are no brown spots on it (these are not suitable for babies).

Mash the fruit with a fork or grate it on a cheese grater (as a result, we get a homogeneous mass). If the puree turned out to be too thick, the recipe allows you to add a little simple, or better, breast milk to the dish.

And when the baby grows up (up to 10 months), you can add a little bit of lemon or orange juice for taste. Of course, it is necessary that the baby tolerates citrus fruits well. Otherwise, you can provoke an allergic reaction. nine0003


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In principle, even banana puree for babies can lead to undesirable consequences. Therefore, it should be entered very carefully. As, however, and any other adult food.

How to inject a banana?

Any new product should be introduced into the baby's diet carefully. So this overseas fruit should be given little by little. First - one spoonful in the morning (in the afternoon, and preferably in the morning), in order to observe the reaction of the child during the time remaining until night. nine0003

And it's good if everything is fine. But a rash or signs of an upset gastrointestinal tract may appear. In this case, the introduction of a new product should be postponed and be sure to consult with your pediatrician.

If banana doesn't work for your baby, you can try introducing other fruits or vegetables. After all, they are very important for the proper development of the child's body, because they contain many vitamins and useful trace elements.

Of course, you should choose vegetables and fruits that are grown without the use of chemicals. nine0003

You can give fresh vegetables and fruits to your child only after making a puree-like gruel out of them. Babies should first be fed vegetable puree.

From fruit, applesauce should be introduced first, then you can supplement the diet with a pear, and only after that - other exotic fruits, including a banana.

You can, of course, buy ready-made baby food in the store, but it is much more useful to prepare it yourself. And it's not at all safe, all baby food products undergo strict quality control. And the fact that grated fruits and vegetables lose some of their beneficial properties. Making a little puree at home is not difficult at all, especially since today in any kitchen there is a blender or slow cooker. nine0003

Apple puree

Apple puree is traditionally prepared from green varieties and is considered universal. Starting complementary foods with this product, starting from the fourth or sixth month of a baby’s life, you can add other fruits and vegetables to it: boiled pumpkin, carrots, banana or pear.

In order to prepare a new dish for your little one, you need to take a green apple, it is on them that children do not have allergic reactions and a little sugar or fructose.

Cooking according to the following scheme:

• fruits should be washed, peeled, core removed, cut into four parts;
• immerse the prepared pieces in a small container and place it on another larger saucepan, into which you must first pour water;
• put a pot of water on the fire and steam the apples. It will take at least 10 minutes for them to cook;
• you can use a double boiler or multicooker. In this case, the cooking time is reduced to 5-7 minutes; nine0016
• Steamed apple slices can be mashed with a fork or using a blender. If the puree is sour, add sugar or fructose. It is still impossible to give very sweet foods to children of this age, so you can sweeten it a little;
• complementary foods are ready.

Apples will supply the growing body with vitamins of all groups, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, iodine, pectin and antioxidants.

Banana Complementary Food

Doctors recommend that you start adding a banana to your baby's food from the age of six months, not earlier. By this age, the digestive system is already formed enough to digest fiber. It is especially important to feed the child in winter, when the mother's nutrition is weakened due to the lack of fresh vegetables in the diet. Accordingly, the necessary building elements will not be enough in breast milk. nine0003

Use the following tips to make puree:

• Choose even yellow bananas. They should not have any brown spots, blotches, green or brown shades. The fruit must be ripe, but not green or overripe;
• before cooking, rinse the fruit thoroughly under running water and remove the peel;
• scrape off some of the juicy pulp and mash it on a saucer with a fork, grate it on a very fine grater or place the fruit in a blender and grind until a homogeneous gruel is obtained; nine0016
• add a little warmed breast milk or formula to a bowl;
• it is necessary to give the baby complementary foods only after the main meal, so that he does not refuse to eat later because of the sucrose present in the fruit. She is able to kill the child's appetite;
• after a year, milk in the mixture can be replaced with fruit juice. Take the juice that does not cause allergies in your baby.

Benefits and harms

Banana is a high-calorie product, which includes vitamins of groups A and B, other useful trace elements, it is hypoallergenic and after eating it, the body produces the hormone of happiness.

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