Can Babies Eat Butter?

Butter is a dairy product made out of fat and protein components of milk or cream. Butter can be used as a spread at room temperature, melted as a condiment, or as an ingredient in different types of food. It can be used for baking purposes, pan frying or in sauce making.

Butter is usually made out of cow’s milk, but it can also be manufactured from sheep’s, goat’s, buffalo’s and yak’s milk. Sometimes there are added salts or food colorings to butter, to make it more tasty.

Mushed potato with butter

The first butter must have been made out of sheep’s or goat’s milk, because cattle were domesticated much later. An interesting and ancient method of making butter needs a goat skin half filled with milk, and being inflated with air before being sealed. The skin is put on a tripod of sticks, using ropes, and it is rocked until the motion leads to the formation of butter.

Butter is essentially just milk fat, containing lactose only in traces, so the moderate consumption of butter should not be a problem for lactose intolerant people. Butter is a source of calories, fat, sodium and vitamin A.

Butter has a role in the development of the brain and nervous system. This is why saturated fat and cholesterol should not be denied to children under the age of 2.

Another type of butter in the nut butter. Traditional nuts in their butter from are a healthy source for fat, protein and also for fat-soluble vitamins. Almond, peanut and cashew butter are great creamy options to give to babies.

Buttered Mashed Potatoes – 7 months

Ingredients: 1 potato, a pinch of salt, 1 tsp butter, a pinch of black pepper powder.

Put the potato in a pressure cooker with ½ cup of water. After the cooking, peel the skin of the potato and cut it into small pieces. Put a pan on medium heat and melt the teaspoon of butter. Add the chopped potatoes once the butter is melted, and stir a pinch of salt and pepper into it.