Making prunes baby food

Easy Prune Puree (Iron-Rich and So Easy)

byAmy Palanjian

Updated June 17, 2021

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With one ingredients and a simple method, this easy Prune Puree is a yummy baby food that also boasts fiber and iron. Try it as a single ingredient baby food, stirred into oatmeal, or to help relieve baby constipation.

Prune Puree

If you think of prunes, you probably think of serving them for one reason. (Constipation!) And while they can be helpful for that, they’re also a nice way to turn a shelf stable fruit into homemade baby food by simply blending with water.

This baby food has fiber, iron, and a pleasantly sweet flavor that’s great on it’s own or mixed into a simple baby food combination.

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Ingredients in Prune Puree

To make this baby food, you just need a bag of basic pitted prunes. You can use regular or organic, depending on what you prefer and can find at your store. (You could use prunes with pits, just remove the pits before you start the process!)

How to Make Prune Puree Step-by-Step

Here’s a look at the basic process involved in making this recipe. Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the full information.

Soak the prunes in water.
Transfer the prunes to a blender using a slotted spoon.
Blend, adding just enough water to make a smooth puree.
Serve or store in the fridge or freezer.

TIP: You can serve this off of a spoon, spread onto toast baby led weaning style, or mix into plain yogurt or baby oatmeal.

Tips for Making the Best Prune Puree

To store in the fridge: Add to small airtight containers and refrigerate for 3-5 days.
To freeze: Add to a silicone ice cube tray and freeze overnight. Transfer frozen cubes to a zip top freezer bag and seal, removing as much air as possible. Freeze for up to 6 months.
Serve alone or stir into baby oatmeal.
Add to a simple smoothie to help with constipation.
Spread onto a finger-size stick of toast to serve Baby Led Weaning style.

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Author Amy Palanjian

Cuisine American

Course Baby Food

Calories 91kcal

Servings 6

▢ 8 ounces pitted dried prunes

Add the prunes to a bowl and cover with water. Soak for 30 minutes.
Add prunes to a blender using a slotted spoon. Blend, adding 1/3-½ cup water to make a smooth puree—or as much as desired to reach the desired consistency. (Adding more water will make a smoother puree, less a thicker one.) Use the stick that came with your blender, or stop and start as needed to help the mixture move around in the blender.
Serve or store.

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To store in the fridge: Add to small airtight containers and refrigerate for 3-5 days.
To freeze: Add to a silicone ice cube tray and freeze overnight. Transfer frozen cubes to a zip top freezer bag and seal, removing as much air as possible. Freeze for up to 6 months.
Serve alone or stir into baby oatmeal.
Add to a simple smoothie to help with constipation.
Spread onto a finger-size stick of toast to serve Baby Led Weaning style.

Calories: 91kcal, Carbohydrates: 24g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 1g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 1g, Sodium: 1mg, Potassium: 277mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 14g, Vitamin A: 295IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 16mg, Iron: 1mg

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Prune Puree Baby Food (Easy First Food)

By Anjali Shah on October 24, 2022

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This simple recipe for homemade prune baby food puree will quickly become one of your baby’s favorites. Full of healthy antioxidants and dietary fiber, prune puree helps keep baby regular!

Ah, prunes. Prunes get such a bad rap – but they’re actually quite delicious! They’re basically just dried plums – and they look like massive raisins.

When I started solid foods for my kids, around 5-6 months of age, I gave them small amounts of this prune baby food to help keep them regular. You can make just plain prune puree, but I found that with the addition of Fuji Apples, this quickly becomes a favorite puree recipe for most babies!

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This is a super easy to make puree – and you can mix it into oatmeal, yogurt, with other veggies, etc.

Prunes are the number one source of antioxidants for babies and they also help keep things moving along, so if your baby is prone to constipation, a couple cubes of this a day incorporated into your baby’s diet should help keep them regular!

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👩🏽‍🍳 Why This Recipe Works

Simple homemade baby food recipe
Healthier than store bought baby food pouches
No artificial colors or flavors
Made with organic ingredients
Easy to store in the refrigerator or freezer
Sweet with no added sugar
Babies love it! The addition of apples helps to balance the flavor of the prunes
Best home remedy for baby constipation
A natural way to keep baby regular (works for the whole family for regularity too!)
Full of antioxidants
Best prune puree recipe ever!

🥘 Ingredients

This baby food prune puree blend uses simple ingredients easily found at your local grocery store!

Organic Prunes: I recommend using dried prunes with no sugar added (you should only see one ingredient on the package – prunes!), but if you have fresh prunes you can use those too. A prune is just a dried plum, so all of the health benefits of plums apply to prunes too!
Organic Fuji Apples: You don’t have to include apples in this puree, but I found that it mellows out the flavor and makes it a lot more palatable for your baby. When buying apples, especially for your baby, it is important to get organic. Apples are one of the fruits on the EWG’s Dirty Dozen list of high pesticide fruits and vegetables. Fuji apples are a great choice for this puree. They have a pinkish flesh, white center, and sweet flavor. It pairs nicely with the prunes.
Water: The added water helps to soften and cook the prunes and apples, and gives this apple prune puree for baby a smooth consistency that baby can easily eat.

📖 Variations

Mash Or Lightly Blend Into Chunks: If your baby is older, instead of pureeing the prunes, you can mash them or blend until chunky. They can then feed themselves the chunks, and mash with their gums.
Mix With Breast Milk Or Formula: Before you serve to your baby, stir in some breast milk or formula for added calories and nutrition. Do not add breast milk or formula before freezing — add it right before serving.
Prune Baby Food Combinations: You can mix baby prunes with all kinds of other fruit blends! Some of our favorites include: A different type of apple puree, or try adding pureed banana, peaches, nectarines, or pear. You can also make this a single-variety fruit puree and just use prunes and water!
Add New Flavors: If your baby is ready for more flavor, add a pinch of different spices. Try cinnamon, cardamom, pumpkin pie spice, or nutmeg!

🔪 How To Make Prune Puree

Making prunes for baby is actually super easy! Here’s how you do it:

Prep Your Fruits, Add To The Pot: Wash the apples. Cut in half and remove seeds and stems. Cut each half into 4-6 pieces. Remove pits from prunes (or – timesaver: get pitted prunes!). Put apples, prunes, and water into a large pot. Cover with a lid and turn the burner on high.

Cook Until Soft: Cook for 8 minutes until tender, stirring occasionally.

Add To Blender And Puree: Pour everything into a blender, puree prunes and apples (if using) until smooth. For babies 4-8 months, a totally smooth puree is the ideal texture you’re looking for. Once your baby gets older (9-12 months) you can make a chunkier puree.

Store And/Or Serve! Pour the smooth puree into ice cube trays and allow it to cool. Cover/wrap, and freeze.

Note: Thaw this prune baby puree in the fridge the night before use, or thaw by putting the ice cube in a bowl over a bowl of hot water on the counter to defrost.

❓Recipe FAQs

Are prunes healthy for babies?

Yes! Prunes for babies are super healthy. Prunes are dried plums, so like plums they are high in vitamins and nutrients, and also help baby stay regular (1 cup of whole prunes have 12 grams of fiber).

Some of the other health benefits of prunes include: they are an excellent source of protein, fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin B6, potassium, vitamin K, and antioxidants. Vitamin B6 helps the body process protein, while potassium helps to balance fluid levels in the body. Vitamin K contributes to healthy blood, and antioxidants help to fight free radicals.

However, prunes are high in natural sugars, so allow baby to enjoy this apple prune puree in moderation.

When can babies eat prunes?

Babies can start eating prunes as soon as they start on solids, typically around 4-6 months of age.

I generally recommend saving this prune baby food recipe after you’ve introduced a few mild veggies first (like carrots, sweet potatoes, green beans, peas) so that your baby gets used to less-sweet solid foods as their first foods.

This will help to ensure your baby doesn’t reject the vegetables because they don’t taste as sweet. Babies already know sweet tastes, since breastmilk and formula are both naturally sweet! Typically, I recommend giving this apple and prune puree to your baby after they’ve tasted about 4-5 veggies first.

Does prune baby food help with constipation?

Yes, prune baby food can help your baby when they are constipated. Prunes help with constipation because they are high in fiber and they also contain sorbitol, which helps get things moving and pulls water into the digestive tract, which eases baby constipation.

When it comes to how much prune puree for baby constipation, I recommend starting with 2-3 tablespoons of this baby food with prunes first, and increase as needed. If you’re wondering “how long does prunes take to work for constipation?” – typically it will take 12-24 hours for the prunes to take effect.

Note: I like using pureed prunes better than prune juice to ease constipation since it works just as well but won’t typically cause diarrhea the way prune juice might!

Do you have to cook prunes for baby?

Yes, you do need to cook prunes before feeding them to your baby. Prunes are thick and sticky, and difficult to chew. By cooking the prunes, you make them softer, and easier to mash in their gums. I recommend cooking and pureeing your prunes with water so that your baby can easily swallow them.

Are prunes a choking hazard for babies? Can toddlers eat dried prunes?

Pureed prunes are not a choking hazard. But dried prunes are a choking hazard for babies under 1 year of age, similar to how raisins or grapes might be – because they’re sticky and hard to chew.

If your baby is over 1 year of age, and you want to give your toddler dried prunes, I recommend soaking the dried prunes in water to rehydrate them, and then mashing or chopping them into small pieces to reduce any risk of choking.

How to serve baby food prunes?

You can serve this puree on on a spoon, on top of pancakes, mixed with other purees, in yogurt, or even oatmeal!

How do you store prune baby food? Can you freeze prunes?

Yes you can freeze prunes! You can also store this organic prunes baby food in the fridge.

To store in the fridge: Transfer the entire puree to an airtight container and place in the fridge. It will keep for up to 5 days. You can just just scoop out a small quantity of these prunes baby food every time you serve it to your budding eater.

To freeze: Let this healthy prunes puree cool, then transfer to an ice cube tray (or trays), that has an airtight or fitted lid. You can also wrap your ice cube tray in plastic wrap and store in the fridge. Pop out the cubes and thaw in the fridge or warm gently in the microwave or on the stovetop before serving (you want it to be just room temperature so it’s not too hot for your baby).

💭 Expert Tips

Make a large batch – To save on prep time for your baby’s meals on a daily basis, I recommend using baby food freezer containers or ice cube trays to store these healthy prunes for baby. That way you can make one large batch that will last you and your baby for several months!
For a smooth consistency – Use a good blender, or food processor to easily blend the fruit puree.
Use pitted prunes to save yourself time from removing the pits yourself.
Keep skins on – If you remove the apple skin you will lose some of the fiber and nutrients, so keep the skins on! They will blend easily once cooked down.
For a store bought recommendation – If you run out of this puree, and have to buy store bought, there are two brands that I recommend: Plum Organics Stage 1 Prunes, and Happy Baby Prune Puree.

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Prune Puree Baby Food

This simple recipe for prune baby food puree will quickly become one of your baby's favorites. Full of healthy antioxidants and fiber, prune puree helps keep baby regular!

Prep Time15 mins

Cook Time15 mins

Total Time30 mins

Course: Baby Food

Cuisine: American

Diet: Gluten Free, Vegan, Vegetarian

Servings: 16 ounces

Calories: 77kcal

Author: Anjali Shah

▢ 8 Organic Fuji Apples
▢ 20 Organic Prunes dried plums
▢ 8-10 oz water for a thicker puree, use less water

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Wash the apples. Cut in half and remove seeds and stems. Cut each half into 4-6 pieces.
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Remove pits from prunes (or – timesaver: get pitted prunes!)
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Put apples, prunes, and water into a large pot.
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Cover and turn the burner on high. Cook for 8 minutes, stirring occasionally.
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Pour everything into a blender, puree until smooth.
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Pour into ice cube trays and allow to cool. Cover/wrap, and freeze.

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Expert Tips

Use baby food freezer containers or ice cube trays to store this baby food. That way you can make one large batch that will last you and your baby for several months!
Use a good blender, or food processor to easily blend the fruit puree.
Use pitted prunes to save yourself time from removing the pits yourself.
If you remove the apple skin you will lose some of the fiber, so keep the skins on! They will blend easily once cooked down.
Thaw in the fridge the night before use, or thaw by putting the ice cube in a bowl over a bowl of hot water on the counter to defrost.
Spice up your baby’s food! Add a pinch of cinnamon, nutmeg, or allspice to this recipe!
1 ice cube = 1 oz of food

Adapted from BabyLove

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Basically I try to buy baby prunes puree, very rarely I cook it in winter. And in the summer I cook baby plum puree. Mainly because it is difficult for me to choose a quality dried fruit in our city market. However, this time the grandmother thought about the baby and in the summer she prepared dried plums. What made me very happy when she brought a whole three-liter jar of prunes.

The difference between prune puree prepared at home and industrial is obvious. Firstly, prunes should only be introduced in an industrial jar, especially if the baby is over 4 months old. The fact is that a purchased jar of prune puree has a homogeneous delicate consistency, but homemade baby puree, even with prolonged whipping, turns out with small pieces. Therefore, if the child has not yet begun to eat small pieces, then you have to pass the puree through a fine sieve. By the time you make this puree, you won't want anything. Secondly, homemade puree has a plum flavor, sweetish with a slight sourness. But the taste from the jar is a little different, more chocolate or something, like a delicacy, almost does not give a plum.

Therefore, if the baby is younger than 9 months, either we are busy with cooking, or we buy a jar of ready-made prune puree.

I repeat that prunes can be given to children at the age of 7-8 months, 50-60 grams up to a year. Prunes are good for intestinal motility during childhood constipation. Therefore, you should not refuse such a wonderful means of regulating the baby's stool. But each baby has its own stool softener, so do not be surprised if prunes do not suit your baby and suddenly fix it. Everything is individual. But in most cases, prune puree weakens the stool.

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4 servings	20 minutes

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Ingredients

200246 200 grams of dried grafts

Portions 9000 Let dried prunes absorb water and become soft, the time may take from 20 to 60 minutes, depending on the degree of dryness of the product.

Then we drain the water, fill in a new portion and rinse well.

Fill twice with water and put on fire to boil.

Cook for about 20 - 30 minutes, until the prunes are tender.

Beat with a blender until smooth with the addition of liquid. Puree without liquid is very thick.

Serve warm to the child.

Can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days, although we give baby puree to a child under one year old only 24 hours from the moment of preparation. Can be stored in the freezer for up to 3 months.

After boiling prunes, there is a compote left, it can be used to make prunes puree or give the baby as a compote the next day.

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90,000 composition, beneficial and therapeutic properties

puree from BLEARS - a one -component dish for children's food. Produced from natural prunes, without added sugar, it has a characteristic rich fruity taste and aroma.

Commercially prepared prune puree, may contain rice starch, grits, water, additionally fortified with vitamin C. Formulated without flavorings, preservatives, color thickeners, GMOs, gluten or milk protein.

It can also be prepared at home.

How to cook

Z-4 Rinse prunes thoroughly and pour boiling water for several hours, cover with a lid, this will allow the berries to soften well. Then boil soft berries, after draining the infused water.
After that they are peeled and crushed by rubbing through a sieve or grinding through a meat grinder.
The resulting mass is diluted with a small amount of water, then heated to a boil, removed from heat.
Puree that has cooled can be used to feed your baby.

Important! When choosing fruits for mashing, give preference to matte dried fruits, black, and they should not be smoked.

Composition

Children's prunes puree is characterized by a diverse chemical composition:

organic acids: citric, oxalic, malic;
unsaturated fatty acids;
saturated fatty acids;
mono and disaccharides: fructose, glucose, sucrose;
pectins;
vegetable fibre;
starch;
tannins;
ash;
sorbitol;
phenol complexes;
vitamins: beta-carotene, retinol, tocopherol, ascorbic and nicotinic acids, B1, B2, B5, K;
mineral salts: potassium, zinc, magnesium, iron, sodium, phosphorus, calcium.

Useful properties

Compliance with the recommendations when using this product has a beneficial effect on the child's body, since the vitamin-mineral complex of prunes puree activates the growth of the child, his full development.

In addition, this type of baby food:

serves as a prevention of diseases of the digestive system;
prevents the development of salmonella and E. coli;
removes toxins, salts of heavy metals, slags;
relieves constipation with a mild laxative effect;
fights beriberi and saturates the child's body with mineral salts, amino acids, fatty acids, antioxidants, dietary fiber;
slows down the development of caries and inflammation of the gums due to the bactericidal properties of prunes.
affects the health of the heart muscle;
is diuretic;
has a low allergenicity index compared to other fruit purees
speeds up metabolism.

This product is nutritious enough to quickly satisfy hunger, does not require additional sweetening, has a long shelf life and is available at any time of the year.

Use limit

This product is not recommended for use by babies in case of:

allergies to prunes;
baby less than 3 months old;
diarrhea;
excess weight.

Excessive consumption of prune puree provokes the occurrence of frequent diarrhea, which dehydrates the child's body.

How to use

Prune puree is recommended as a complementary food for babies older than six months. The industrially produced product is ready to use, it is enough to warm it up a little in a water bath to +37°C.

As a regular complementary food, this type of baby food is given from 1 tsp. 1-2 times a day, gradually increasing the portion of the product. A one-year-old baby can eat up to 100 g of this type of puree per day.

It is recommended to use prune puree for breakfast or lunch, as feeding this product in the evening is fraught with sleepless nights.

For children over 1 year old, this product can be used as a sauce for porridge, cottage cheese and other dishes. It is recommended to combine it with banana or pear puree, bakery products, rice.

How to store

Experts recommend using a new jar of baby food each time you feed your baby.

For children older than 1 year, it is acceptable to use products that are stored in the refrigerator, no more than a day.

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