Avocados don’t require cooking which makes it the easiest and healthiest fruit to feed your infant or toddler. The one step an avocado requires is for it to be ripe. Checking the ripeness of an avocado is quite simple. Just follow the steps in my How to Tell When an Avocado is Ripe page and you will be all set.
In addition, avocados contain heart healthy fats and the following nutrients:
- Vitamins C and E
- Folate
- Fiber
- Iron
- Potassium
- Lutein
- Beta-Carotene
To read more about the benefits of avocados, please refer to the following link:
http://blogs.webmd.com/food-and-nutrition/2016/09/avocados-6-reasons-theyre-awesome.html
How to Make Pureed Avocado: For Babies Just Starting on Solids
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon of a ripe avocado
Instructions:
Wash and scrub the avocado under cold water using a vegetable scrub.
Pat it dry.
Carefully cut the ripe avocado in half and twist the avocado open.
Measure a tablespoon of the avocado and place it in his/her serving bowl. Whatever isn’t used may be tightly covered with plastic wrap and placed in an air tight container or a zip-top bag. Store the avocado in the refrigerator for your infant’s next feeding.
IF the avocado WILL NOT be fed to your infant, you may squeeze some lemon juice over the avocado before placing it inside the plastic wrap to prevent it from oxidizing.
Using a fork, mash the avocado until you get a pureed like consistency. Add an ounce or two of breastmilk or formula-just enough to get it to the dripping off the spoon consistency. Then, serve the remaining breastmilk or formula after he/she has finished the solids.
In other words, if he/she were to drink 5 ounces of breastmilk or formula, add 1-2 ounces of the breastmilk or formula to the serving bowl with the pureed avocado. The remaining 3-4 ounces, he/she will drink after he/she eats the pureed avocado.
