Can Babies Eat Flour?

Flour is a powder resulted from the grinding of different raw grains, roots, beans, seeds or nuts. Flour is used as an ingredient for many different foods, wheat being one of the most popular types of flour, widely used as the most important ingredient for making bread. The first archeological evidence for wheat seeds crushed in order to make flour is from 6000 BC. The Romans were the first ones to properly grind seeds on cone mills.

There are many types of flour: bleached flour, meaning any refined flour with whitening agent added, enriched flour, meaning flour in which nutrients lost during the making of flour are replaced by other nutrients, cake flour, which has the lowest gluten protein content, pastry flour, which has the second lowest gluten protein content, plain or all-purpose flour, bread flour, hard flour, gluten flour, unbleached flour, self raising flour.

Is Rice Flour Good For Children ?

Rice is the biggest natural source for arsenic, which has a negative effect in babies IQ development. Many snacks are made or can be made out of rice flour. Choose a better option for your baby.

Is Ragi Flour Recommended ?

Ragi is high in calcium, which contributes to the health of bones, to teeth growing in babies. It is the best non – diary source of calcium. Ragi flour is also high in dietary fibers, which help with digestion.

Is Plantain Flour Good For Babies ?

Plantain flour or banana flour is a gluten free flour and an excellent choice as an ingredient for baby food.

Is Corn Flour Good ?

Corn flour has mostly just the granules of starch, it has not much nutritional value for babies, unless the food you give to your baby is associated with milk or any substitute for milk.

Can Babies Eat Almond Flour ?

Almond flour can be used to make pancakes for your babies as finger foods starting at the age of 7 months old.

Can a 6 Months Old Have Wheat ?

Wheat should be introduced into a baby’s diet only after parents make sure, their babies not only can eat solid foods, but when their babies can eat single grain cereals, to avoid food allergies. The safe age to give your baby wheat is between 7-9 months, after you baby has already tried other flours.

Benefits of Wheat

Wheat is in most cases enriched with nutrients, therefore can be beneficial for your baby. Wheat is high in iron, thiamine, riboflavin and in fibers. Fibers help digestion.

Banana & Ragi Porridge Recipe for Babies & Toddlers (+6 months)

Ingredients: 1 tbsp ragi flour, 1 ripe banana.

Bring to boil in a pan ¼ cup of water, reduce the heat and put slowly the ragi powder and stir well. Ragi tends to thicken quickly, stir to get a slightly thick texture. Turn of the heat and let it cool a bit. Mash the banana with a fork, making sure there are no lumps. Add the mashed banana to the ragi porridge and mix well.