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Posted in Health and Nutrition on 10/15/2008 06:10 pm by Steven Nerenberg
Is it true that home made baby food lacks some of the vitamins & nutrition they put in store bought baby food?
I’m planning to make my own baby food, but I heard this from someone, that home made baby food don’t have all the nutrition or added vitamins in the manufactured ones. Also, if I make big batches & freeze them, will it loose some nutritional value? If so, how much is lost & how soon?
Thank you in advance for all the advice!
I made a lot of my 2nd son’s baby food and he doesn’t seem to be lacking in anything. He’s now 20 months and eats pretty much everything.
I do suggest you speak with a dietitian for suggestions on combinations for complete nutrition, like i do remember specifically hearing beans and rice pack a better nutritional punch if paired together. One good thing about making your own is that you can mildly season with spices and such that your family uses normally so baby is accustomed to the tastes once they start eating regular foods later on, and you don’t have to add any salt to your baby food, most jar foods do contain some weather added or already contained in the foods being cooked.
You are going to have to look around at health food stores more so to get dried egg yolk if you plan on using it.
Some prefer to use ice cube trays for portion sizing, those work well for in the beginning in my experience, but we moved on to muffin trays, standard size works well. They were a little hard at times to get out and I wouldn’t recommend using pans you want to use for baking in case you scratch the sides poping the frozen cakes out, I did that many times. An ice cube is approximately 1 oz and a muffin puck is about 2 oz depending on the size oc cup you use and how much you put in, mine always seemed to work out to around 2 oz.
I have to admit I mad things for Jackson I had never eaten like some of the beans and legumes I used, but then again I’m a good eater on my own and don’t usually have to worry about proper nutrition on the whole for myself.
And no, I don’t believe freezing baby foods like this lose nutrition, it’s more so in the cooking process. Steam as much as you can as opposed to boiling and if you have to boil, use the cooking water to thin the mix, except for broccoli it is not suggested to use the cooking water, but that steams just fine anyway.
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