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Texture development
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- 12 m
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- 8–9 months
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- 4
–6 months
TH
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- 6 months
SUCKING OF
LIQUIDS
CHEWING OF
SOLID FOODS
HOW CAN YOU HELP YOUR BABY TO
EXPLORE NEW FLAVOURS?
Before trying the taste, you can use sensory familiarisation to explore
a food. This is a very simple technique which can be used to make
a rejected or unknown product familiar. The aim is to increase the
child's contact with the food before it is served on their plate. This
prior contact helps to awaken their sensoriality: they can touch and
taste foods in a non-restrictive and often playful context.
FOR EXAMPLE
You can involve your child in making the meal. You can show them the
food in its original form and not cut up, and explain where the food
comes from. Neophobia, or fear of new foods, decreases when the
child knows where the food comes from. Do not hesitate to let your
baby handle the fruit or vegetable. They explore new foods with all of
their senses: touch, sight and smell, as well as taste.
Introducing flavours
DURING FOOD DIVERSIFICATION
When your baby seems ready to try other food than milk, give them
a small amount of a steamed vegetables, in smooth purée form, every
day. Try a different vegetable each day for 7 days and then repeat this
cycle. Continue with vegetables for about 2 weeks and then try some
fruits and other foods. Opt for steamed vegetables, which are not too
fibrous and do not have too strong a flavour for your baby. It is best to
start gradually, starting with one vegetable in the purée at a time.
Sensory education starting in early childhood is the key to setting
up the basis for healthy eating. Your child needs to be guided
towards a healthy balanced diet, because they will naturally
gravitate towards sweet, sugary, satisfying foods.
Sensory awakening teaches children to enjoy a range of foods and
to get pleasure from eating them. The earlier this happens, the
easier it will be.
During the food diversification process, your baby is discovering
new flavours and textures.
Babies are born with an innate preference for sour and bitter
flavours. For babies and young children, fruits and vegetables
should be introduced one at a time and not mixed together.
Adding starchy foods to vegetables generally helps them to be
better accepted in the long term.
To help your baby learn, give them several opportunities and
several meals to explore a new taste.
Quick plan
TO HELP EMBARK ON THE 1
ST
STAGE OF FOOD DIVERSIFICATION
• Give the same
vegetables as in
week 1.
• Make a smooth purée.
• Give a few spoonfuls
of one type of
vegetable a day at
lunchtime.
• The rest of the meal
should be your child's
usual milk.
week
2
• Novelty for week 3:
add one fruit per day.
• Continue feeding
your child the same
vegetables as weeks
1 and 2, alternating
flavours for 7 days.
• Make a smooth purée.
• Give a few spoonfuls
of one type of
vegetable a day at
lunchtime.
week
3
• Novelty for week 5:
add one new vegetable
and fruit each week.
• Alternate flavours and
continue to vary the
vegetables and fruit.
• Make a smooth purée.
• Gradually increase the
number of spoonfuls
according to your
child’s appetite.
week
5
• Novelty for week 4:
add a fourth vegetable.
• Alternate flavours for
7 days.
• Make a smooth purée.
• Give a few spoonfuls
of one type of
vegetable and fruit a
day at lunchtime.
The rest of
the meal should
be your child's
usual milk
The rest of
the meal should
be your child's
usual milk
week
4
Alternate
flavours
for
7 days
Alternate
flavours
for
7 days Alternate
flavours
for
7 days
week
1
• Choose three different
types of vegetables.
• Make a smooth purée.
• Give a few spoonfuls
of one type of
vegetable a day at
lunchtime.
• The rest of the meal
should be your child's
usual milk.