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Perfect Pumpkin
This Orange Vegetable Is a Great Option for Babies and Toddlers
By Donna Smith
When you look at a pumpkin patch, most think of excited children walking up and down the rows trying to select the perfect specimen to tote home, but maybe you should think about pumpkins as a great food for babies and toddlers.
"Pumpkin can be a good early food for babies and toddlers," says Peggy O'Shea, a Boston-based nutritionist and president of the Massachusetts Dietetic Association. "Pumpkin can be prepared in many ways that are baby- and toddler-friendly. They are a fun food to involve kids in the preparation of, and pumpkin is packed with many great nutrients – it is high in vitamin A, beta carotene and is also good source of iron and potassium." O'Shea says pumpkin also is low in fat and high in fiber.
Pumpkin can be prepared in a number of different ways. "It can be baked or steamed, poached or boiled," O'Shea says. "Just keep in mind that the longer you cook it, and the more liquid it is cooked in, the more nutrients that are going to be lost during the cooking process."
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Re: Perfect Pumpkin by anonymous on 12/02/2008 11:59AM
Pumpkin is perfect, but I have been giving my now 10-month-old baby pumpkin from 6 months, and when I give it to her, the next day she does not have a bowel movement. Can anyone tell me why this happens? I've made sure it's just the pumpkin by eliminating other foods when I give her pumpkin. She also breastfeeds exclusively.