If a month ago, by explaining that six-month-old babies can eat eggs, a stir was generated on Facebook because "the whole life of the egg is given at twelve months," something similar can happen today with the blue fish, because until a few years ago it was recommended from the year and a half, and it turns out that it is not necessary to wait so long.
It has been said for a few years that, seeing that there is no reason to wait, Babies can start eating blue fish at six months of age.
Since some years?
So is: seven years to be exactWhen a review of studies was conducted that aimed to see what foods had to be offered to babies first, with what to expect and why, and the results showed that there was no evidence to prove anything concrete.
That is, when they saw all the available evidence, they realized that most of the recommendations that had been given had not been demonstrated, so offering the blue fish at 18 months did not meet any specific scientific criteria. Thus, they suggested that it could begin to be offered at six months, like most foods.
If we add to this that more and more studies are showing that the risk of food allergy is not greater than starting earlier, but less (Early exposure seems to reduce the likelihood of a child developing allergy to a particular food), it seems that the most logical recommendation is the one we are mentioning today.
But white fish is softer, isn't it?
It is said that white fish (monkfish, sole, hake ...) is easier to accept at the beginning because its flavor is softer, and it is true. It is a leaner fish (in fact, it is called like this: lean fish), than blue, which it's more fatty, and therefore it has a stronger flavor.
Now, many babies are also lovers of those flavors, and there is no reason to avoid it in this regard, especially if we take into account that the fat they provide is very healthy: they are fish rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, with special mention to Omega 3, whose benefits are well known.
How much can they eat?
According to the latest recommendations, which you can read in the last guide of complementary feeding of the Generalitat de Catalunya, fish is offered from 6 months, giving about 30 to 40 grams a day, preferably fresh and without thorns.
In this table you can see when each food is offered:
If you don't like it very much, we can leave it a few days until you offer it again, and repeat the food exposures from time to time. The reason for doing so, even if you keep letting us know that your taste has not just moved you, is that you have seen that it takes several exposures to a food so that it ends up liking, or to set it aside definitively.
Although 12 to 15 exhibitions were spoken on separate days a few years ago, more and more it is said that success stories have been seen after more than 25 exposures. That is, children who do not accept the taste of a certain food until they have tried it more than 25 times, then eat it as if it were one more food.
