When did your baby start rice cereal?

[lozzy21]

Like to add babies can't physically diges grains before 6 months anyways as they dot have the enzyme for it so good first foods are actually meats or egg yolks since they need the iron

As for preemies you need to go by their adjusters age I believe and talk with the doctor first

Weaning is the one thing you don't adjust for and go on actual age.

 

[lozzy21]

I also never realised baby rice is "bad"? Just never gave it to my LO because it doesn't taste nice ... well doesn't taste of anything.

For me, if you look at the ingredients in baby rice it's pretty much the same as rice pudding just with ground rice not whole grains. I don't have that as a meal, its a desert since there is no nutrition in it.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

Never. Its pointless.

 

[felix555]

I also never realised baby rice is "bad"? Just never gave it to my LO because it doesn't taste nice ... well doesn't taste of anything.

For me, if you look at the ingredients in baby rice it's pretty much the same as rice pudding just with ground rice not whole grains. I don't have that as a meal, its a desert since there is no nutrition in it.

i think you're confusing rice cereal with something else.

rice cereal is just rice cereal (ground up rice) with added vitamin b and;

rice pudding contains milk, rice, sugar.


Rice cereal
Typical values per 100g
Energy 1608kj
Energy 379kcal
Protein 7.3g
Carbohydrate 85.1g
of which sugars 0.3g
Fat 0.7g
of which saturates 0.1g
Fibre 1.4g
Sodium Trace
Thiamin (B1) 1.3mg

Rice pudding for babies
Typical values per 100g
Energy 375kj
Energy 89kcal
Protein 2.5g
Carbohydrate 15.2g
of which sugars 7.7g
Fat 2g
of which saturates 1g
Fibre 0.2g
Sodium 0.035g

nutritionally speaking they are not the same nor is it true as some say it has NO nutritional value.

again though, I just didn't bother with giving it because it doesn't taste like anything and to me the whole idea of feeding a baby before 1 is not to get his tummy full (he has milk for that) but for him to explore tastes and textures so rice cereal was pointless to me in that regard.

i don't understand the rice cereal has NO nutritional value statements I see on here all the time. explain why it has energy, protein, carbs etc? that is nutritional value.

water, as far as I know, is the only thing with NO nutritional value.

 

[Dragonfly]

Never gave my kids that. Better to give nutritious foods instead.

 

[AP]

Like to add babies can't physically diges grains before 6 months anyways as they dot have the enzyme for it so good first foods are actually meats or egg yolks since they need the iron

As for preemies you need to go by their adjusters age I believe and talk with the doctor first

The link i posted earlier might help you too hun, its 5-7months actual age

 

[lozzy21]

I also never realised baby rice is "bad"? Just never gave it to my LO because it doesn't taste nice ... well doesn't taste of anything.

For me, if you look at the ingredients in baby rice it's pretty much the same as rice pudding just with ground rice not whole grains. I don't have that as a meal, its a desert since there is no nutrition in it.

i think you're confusing rice cereal with something else.

rice cereal is just rice cereal (ground up rice) with added vitamin b and;

rice pudding contains milk, rice, sugar.


Rice cereal
Typical values per 100g
Energy 1608kj
Energy 379kcal
Protein 7.3g
Carbohydrate 85.1g
of which sugars 0.3g
Fat 0.7g
of which saturates 0.1g
Fibre 1.4g
Sodium Trace
Thiamin (B1) 1.3mg

Rice pudding for babies
Typical values per 100g
Energy 375kj
Energy 89kcal
Protein 2.5g
Carbohydrate 15.2g
of which sugars 7.7g
Fat 2g
of which saturates 1g
Fibre 0.2g
Sodium 0.035g

nutritionally speaking they are not the same nor is it true as some say it has NO nutritional value.

again though, I just didn't bother with giving it because it doesn't taste like anything and to me the whole idea of feeding a baby before 1 is not to get his tummy full (he has milk for that) but for him to explore tastes and textures so rice cereal was pointless to me in that regard.

i don't understand the rice cereal has NO nutritional value statements I see on here all the time. explain why it has energy, protein, carbs etc? that is nutritional value.

water, as far as I know, is the only thing with NO nutritional value.

And what do you make baby rice up with? Formula so it's no different to rice pudding. Formula is full of sugar anyway

Most of those vitamins you mention have been artificially added and are not naturally occurring, artificial vitamins and minerals are harder to absorb that naturally occurring ones so just because they have x amount of iron does not mean baby is getting that amount.