Easy Ways to Introduce new Flavours to Babies

Have you ever seen the awe in a kid’s face during a new science experiment or when going to a new play area? Just imagining it is enough to refresh us 😌

All you need to know about Baby Weaning & Food to gear up for 2023Happy Baby ready to try new flavours by Nutreat Life

Kids eating & playing with variety of foods, Photo Credits:Nutreat Life

Your little Bundle of Joy can be rejoiced while getting familiar with the plethora of flavours in the food palette. The easy way out for you as a young parent is to concentrate on savoury foods like soft purees of vegetables when the baby turns 4 months. Your choice of soft purees can be given 2 times a day in an average 4 tbsp servings

How to Start

• Set a Feeding Schedule
• Make a routine
• Flavour Training
• Encourage iron rich Finger foods like well cooked legumes and fruits
• Repeated Exposure

Mild flavours from 6-8 months

Solid food turns into a routine of a newborn child's eating phase close to this time. Habituate him/her to 3-5 tablespoons of food 3 times each day, alongside regular milk feedings.

9 - 12 months

By now you can gradually increase the quantity of solids as the teething process happens simultaneously. Now habituate him/her to 3-5 tablespoons of food 3 times each day, alongside regular milk feedings.

Flavours from 1 yr Age

Once the baby turns 1, breastfeeding/ formula becomes optional as you can opt cow milk too. And Solids become their major source of nutrition so we must carefully craft all the minerals and vitamins into their diet through vegetables, fruits and meat too

Best Natural Actions to introduce the flavours

• In the initial 6 months of nursing, the diet palette of the mom sets the pace for the baby to experience different flavours through milk feeding
• Create curiosity by eating the same foods like fruit around them and within their reach. Banana, apple, dates & berries are a great way to kickstart
• Mildly season their foods from 8 months through natural pinches of spice
• Play Time! Letting babies to play around with a variety of food skyrockets their cognitive skills for a lifetime. (Ensure adding salt from 8 months age) Some extra chaos in tiny is always better than carrying a big sack of books in the name of extra tuition

Baby boy loving his favourite meal by Nutreat Life

Pro tip: Fill up your daily dose of patience with music and feelings-sharing to persevere the chaotic infant to kiddo phase