Palatetraining: Parents Aim to Buy the Best Food but Need to Make the Best Food

(Counterclockwise from top right to bottom right: My palette of fresh organic homemade tricolor carrots, sweet potato, butternut squash, Fuji applesauce, sweet peas, green beans and banana purees.) The other day a new parent told me, "I don't make my own baby food, but I only buy organic." She was confident and assured that her baby was getting "fresh organic fruits, vegetables, and whole grains" because of the "organic," "100 percent natural," made with "pure vegetables and fruits," "no artificial flavors," labels on the jar or squeeze pouch. She had no idea that she had begun her baby's relationship with a food imposter. How many times have you seen a "no artificial ingredients" label on a bunch of carrots? I will safely guess none because it is reserved for commercially-processed foods. If you want a baby, toddler, child, tween, or teenager to love real fruits and vegetables, you must palatetrain them with the real deal. Palatetraining requires that your baby's first foods are fresh vegetable purees so your baby's anatomic "palate" and visual preferences are conditioned to have a life-long love of nutritious fresh foods. Fresh vegetables are bright, colorful, and diverse in taste and texture -- qualities that stimulate the senses and develop baby's food preferences. Through repeated exposure you are influencing your baby's delicate neurophysiology. I understand that in today's fast-paced world, it is difficult to find the time to make your own baby food, but be inform...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news