Avocado for babies: what you should know about it

Avocados are suitable for babies as complementary foods with their healthy fats. You can give your child a first avocado from the fifth month.

Babies can also eat avocados

Avocados are great for adding a little more variety to baby's diet.

• In many countries, mothers are even the first to add avocados to their babies. Because the fruit is usually well tolerated and loosens stool.
• The avocado contains a lot of high quality fat and is therefore very healthy.
• For example, the avocado is well suited as an afternoon porridge.
• Give your child about 50 grams of avocado per serving.
• However, the avocado should not replace the entire supply of vegetables, because it is too fatty and contains too little carbohydrates.
• Alternatively, sweet potatoes, for example, are well suited for the first baby porridges.

Avocado recipes for babies

With these recipes you can conjure up a delicious avocado meal for your baby.

• For an avocado porridge you need half an avocado, a heaping tablespoon of cooked milk rice and 50 milliliters of water.
• Cook the rice pudding in water and puree a tablespoon of it with the pieces of avocado and the water.
• A similar recipe works on baby instant rice flakes . Mix 20 grams with 125 milliliters of warm apple juice. To do this, mix 50 grams of crushed avocado.
• Alternatively, you can also mix mashed potatoes with a little avocado and provide more variety.

In the next article you will find more information on the subject of semolina porridge for babies.