Can Babies Eat Tomato Sauce?

Tomato sauce is a sauce made primarily from tomatoes combined with different ingredients, depending on the country it is prepared in. It is usually served as a part of a dish, mostly with meat, vegetables or pasta dishes. There is a difference in the texture between ketchup and tomato sauce, but there are countries like the UK, Australia and the USA, where both terms are used for the condiment.

Tomato Sauce Varieties

Tomato sauce was first mentioned by a Spanish friar, later, in an Italian cookbook in 1790. The simplest tomato sauce is made from chopped tomatoes, which are cooked and simmered until they lose their raw flavor. The seasoning with salt, herbs or spices is what makes the difference between various types of tomato sauces. Italians make many types of tomato sauce, the simple ones called pasta al pomodoro, the spicy ones called puttanesca or arrabiata sauces and they also prepare a tomato-garlic-sauce, used mostly on pizza. Mexicans, Indians and French prepare their own specific tomato sauces.

Tomato sauces have as main ingredient tomatoes, which are high in vitamins C, K, B6, B3 and E. The combination of tomatoes with mild chili peppers, basil, oregano, parsley or black peppers, make tomato sauce not only into a food or a food ingredient with rich and interesting flavors for your babies, but also a healthy source of antioxidants.

Babies can start eating tomatoes at the age of 6 months old, when they start eating solid food. At the same age can be tomato sauce introduced into a diet of your baby.

Easy Tomato Sauce For Babies

Ingredients: 2 tins of chopped plum tomatoes, 1 finely chopped onion, 1 crushed clove of garlic, 2 tbsp olive oil.

Put some oil into a sauce pan and gently fry the chopped onion and the crushed garlic, until they are soft and golden. Break up the plum tomatoes with a wooden spoon and add them to the onion and garlic, reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes. Stir in the olive oil and puree until the mixture is soft.