when making your own baby food can you mix in a little bit of brown sugar for flavor.?

I'm sure a little won't hurt, but usually it's not necessary to season baby food. They have much more sensitive taste buds than we do. But, if that's they way to get her to eat them, then go for it. Have you tried some cheese on vegetables too?

I wouldn't add sugar. I have a 5 month old who is just starting to eat solids. I make my own baby food too. I feed my daughter a little bit of fruit with her veggies. I gradually decrease the amount of fruit I put on the spoon with her veggies until she is eating just the vegetables. Then I give her the rest of the fruit at the end.

It's won't necessarily hurt her, but I would advise against it. The same goes for salt and butter. A little bit won't hurt them, but it makes them used to eating their veggies that way. So they may never enjoy them without all the added stuff that isn't good for you anyway.

I never added salt, sugar, or butter to my children's food. Now, even at 5 and 8, they eat all their veggies plain because they didn't grow up with a taste for salt or butter or sugar on their vegetables. They don't salt their food, they don't butter their bread.

Sugar, salt, and butter are okay in moderation, but they're going to get so much of it from other sources. It's better to keep it out of their diet as much as possible, especially at home.

If you sugar her vegetables now, she will probably never like them any other way. It's better to just leave them plain and just keep trying.

And if she doesn't like the sweet potatoes, that's fine. She's not going to like everything you try to give her, so don't force it by trying to sweeten them up.

Besides, she's 6 months old. Solids at this point are all about trying new tastes and textures, not really about calories or nutrition at this point. So it's absolutely fine if she doesn't eat any of it.

Sugar isn't actively harmful (as you note, breastmilk contains a ton of sugar), but neither is it really a good idea. You want your baby to get used to all different sorts of flavors; sweet, tart, bland and bitter. If she doesn't like a particular food unsweetened, try a different food. There are so many options that she doens't have to like every food.

(FWIW, my daughter hated the yellow/orange veggies as a baby,but loved the green ones. She's now a teenager ... and still hates carrots and sweet potatoes, and loves brocolli and green beans.)

First of all, babies do not have a preference when they start food. It takes 15 to 21 tastes for them to develop a like or dislike for a particular flavor. Adding brown sugar may not outright harm her but it's definitely not good for her. There is no reason to add sugar. Would you ive your baby a soda? No, because it's loaded with sugar right?

I was told to use brown sugar in my daughters bottle when she was constipated. I don't think it is harmful to your baby but I don't think that you really need to. You are developing your babies food pallet... do you want to give them sugar that young? They love the new tastes without adding sugar.

I wouldn't. It's completely unnecessary and will just condition her for sweets. Most babies don't like veggies right off the bat. It's totally normal. She'll eventually start liking it better, just keep offering it to her.

This doesn't count as a veggie, but one thing my daughter LOVED was banana mixed w/ avocado. she HATED avocado by itself, so I just mixed the two. Avocado is one of the best 'first foods' you can give your baby. Try it!

she will never like veggies as they are if you put sugar in!

Babies don't have developed taste buds like we do , so no, Id say its unnecessary. Squash and sweet potato are sweet anyway.

Don't do it. Let your child get use to the natural flavors of food. I breastfed four children and don't let them near sugar. I don't add it to anything because they have to get use to the flavors and textures. They eat their vegetables. I think it takes like nine times for them to get use to the taste.

I don't think it would be harmful for your baby, but it's not really a good idea. You'll be training her palate to prefer sweet things, and that's going to create so many problems in the future. She'll prefer cookies to veggies, and soda to water or milk.