Salicylate content of foods

FRUIT

NEGLIGIBLE

Banana

Canned Pear****

Lime

Pear (ripe and peeled)

LOW
Apple – golden delicious

Nashi Pears

Papaya

Paw Paw

Tamarillo

MODERATE
Apple – red delicious

Canned or dried Fig

Canned pear****

Custard apple

Lemon

Loquat

Mango

Passion fruit

Pear (w/ peel)

Persimmon

Pomegranate

Rhubarb

HIGH
Apple – red delicious

Canned or dried Fig

Canned pear****

Custard apple

Lemon

Loquat

Mango

Passion fruit

Pear (w/ peel)

Persimmon

Pomegranate

Rhubarb

VERY HIGH

All dried Fruits, Apricot

Avocado

Blackberry, Blackcurrant

Blueberry, Boysenberry

Cherries – all other kinds

Cranberry

Currant

Date

Grape

Guava

Loganberry

Orange

Pineapple

Plum, Prune

Raisin

Raspberry, Redcurrant

Rock melon

Strawberry

Sultana

Tangelo, Tangerine

Youngberry

VEGETABLES

NEGLIGIBLE

Bamboo Shoots

Beans (dried – not borlotti)

Cabbage (green or white)

Celery

Green Split peas

Lentils (brown)

Lentils (red)

Lettuce (iceberg)

Peas (dried)

Potato (old/white and peeled)

Swede

LOW

Bean Sprouts

Borlotti beans

Brussels sprouts

Cabbage – red

Cauliflower

Chickpeas

Chives

Choko

Fresh Asparagus

Green Beans

Green Peas

Leek

Mung bean sprouts

Onion

Potato (white with peel)

Shallots

Yellow split peas

MODERATE

Asparagus – tinned

Aubergine – peeled

Beetroot

Black Olives

Canned Asparagus

Carrot

Fresh Tomato

Frozen Spinach

Lettuce (other than iceberg)

Marrow

Mushrooms

Parsnips

Potato (new and red Pontiac)

Pumpkin

Snow Peas

Sprout

Sweet corn

Turnip

HIGH

Alfalfa sprouts

Artichoke

Aubergine with peel

Broad bean

Broccoli

Canned black olive

Cucumber

Cucumber

Eggplant

Fresh Spinach

Okra

Radish

Sweet Potato

Water chestnut

Watercress

Zucchini

VERY HIGH

Canned Green Olives

Capsicum

Champignon

Chicory

Chili peppers

Courgette

Endive

Gherkin

Hot pepper

Peppers

Radish

Tomato

Tomato Products

Water Chestnut

NUTS AND SEEDS

NEGLIGIBLE
Poppy seed

LOW

Cashews

Hazelnuts

Pecan

Sunflower seeds

MODERATE

Desiccated coconut

Peanut Butter

Pumpkin

Sesame

HIGH

Brazil nuts

Macadamia

Pine nuts

Pistachio

VERY HIGH

Almond

Peanuts with skins on

Water chestnut

SEASONING

NEGLIGIBLE

Golden Syrup

Malt Vinegar

Maple Syrup (pure)

Salt

LOW

Apple Butter (if homemade from acceptable apples)

Chives

Fennel – dried

Garlic

Parsley

Saffron

Shallots

Soy Sauce (if free of spices)

MODERATE

Fresh Coriander  

Horseradish

Mayonnaise

HIGH

All Spice

Bay leaf

Caraway

Cardamom

Cinnamon

Cloves

Coriander

Ginger

Mixed herbs

Mustard

Pimiento

VERY HIGH

Aniseed

Basil

Cayenne

Celery powder

Chilli

Commercial Gravies & Sauces

Cumin

Curry

Dill

Fenugreek

Fish, meat, and tomato pastes

Garam masala

Ginger

Honey

Jam/Jelly (all commercial)

Liquorices

Mace, Marmite

Mint

Mustard

Nutmeg

Oregano

Paprika

Peppers

Peppermint

Rosemary

Sage

Tabasco

Tarragon

Thyme

Turmeric

Vegemite and other Yeast Extracts****

Vinegar

Worcester Sauce

FATS AND OILS

NEGLIGIBLE

Butter

Canola Oil

Margarine****

Safflower Oil

Soy Oil

Sunflower Oil

LOW
Ghee

MODERATE

Almond Oil

Corn Oil

Peanut Oil

HIGH

Copha

Sesame oil

Walnut Oil

VERY HIGH

Coconut Oil

Olive Oil

GRAINS

NEGLIGIBLE

Barley

Buckwheat

Millet

Oats (plan)

Rice

Rice cereals (plan)

Rye

Wheat

VERY HIGH

Breakfast cereals that include fruit, nuts, honey or coconut

Corn/maize cereals

Cornmeal

Flavored breakfast cereals

Maize

Polenta


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Salicyaltes - What can you eat?

GRAINS

• Rice Noodles
• Rice Pasta
• Rice flour
• Eggs
• Potato flour

VEGETABLES

• Asparagus
• Pumpkin
• Sweet Potato
• Carrot
• Onion
• Beetroot (fresh)
• White cabbage (not Chinese)
• Swede
• Lettuce, common (inside leaves)
• Celery
• Fresh Green beans
• Red Cabbage
• Mung Bean sprouts
• Leeks
• Brussels Sprouts
• Choko
• Shallots (common)
• Chives (common)
• Garlic

FRUIT

• Red Delicious Apples
• Fresh Pears, peeled and ripe
• Tinned Pears in syrup (not in juice)
• Golden Delicious Apples (peeled and must be ripe)
• Nashi Pears (peeled and ripe)

OTHER

• Sugar (small amount)
• Golden Syrup (small amount)
• Canola (also known as Rape Seed), Safflower or Sunflower oil
• Raw Cashews
• Milk
• Natural Yogurt
• Water

NOTES

• Lima, Borlotti, Red Kidney, Haricot, Soy and Black Eye beans (must be fresh or dried, tinned beans not acceptable)
• Yellow split peas (must be fresh or dried, tinned split peas not acceptable)
• Boiled or Steamed White or Brown Rice (any variety of white or brown rice except for fragrant rice like jasmine, basmati or wild rice, also no puffed rice such as rice bubbles or puffed rice cakes)
• Common white potatoes, those commonly sold as "old", "washed" or "brushed" potatoes, often these are the sebago variety. These must be peeled. "New" potatoes or red pontiac potatoes or any other specialist varieties not acceptable.

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Salicyaltes - The on earth are they!??

Early on in Sakuras’ first foods I gave her a whole strawberry. Wonderful!! Strawberries take no preparation and she can hold it by the green bit (theoretically, it took a couple of attempts for her to understand the green bit was yucky).

She’s always been fairly vocal and well, temperamental. But I noticed something – did she get more agitated, more frantically busy? I knew about salicylates from a friend’s young cousin who was a low salicylate diet due to behavioural problems. I also knew an adult friend who eliminated them from her diet to get rid of debilitating migraines.

Salicylates are a naturally occurring chemical that act like a natural pesticide for plants. They are highest in unripe fruit and lowest when the fruit is about to fall of the tree. When you think about our current mass agricultural  practices, I know that the fruit I buy in the supermarket wasn’t just about to fall! Research shows that about salicylate sensitivity can contribute to asthma in adults, food-induced itchy rashes, headaches or migraines, irritable bowel symptoms and behavioural problems in children. Many people with salicylate intolerance have no idea what could be affecting them.

It’s hard to believe that something natural and otherwise healthy for you can cause problems. Salicylates are as natural as gluten or lactose – other compounds of foods that cause allergic reactions in people.

So I looked into it and found that a lot of the foods I gave her were high salicylate. And they were her absolute favourites. So what to do – eliminate, reduce or not care. I tried the eliminate route... it was hard, but not bland. I had to think a lot more about yummy ways to rehash peeled red apples! It was early in her experience with solids, so I could really give her anything as she was SOOO excited to finally get to experience all these amazing new sensations.

Once I understood them and had spent a few weeks eliminating them, I gave up a little bit. Partly for the sake of variety, partly for convenience. So I started choosing low salicylate foods.  If it was extra special but high in salicylates, like MANGO she had it, knowing that generally her diet was low in them. Like everything, it’s great to be aware and conscious of your decisions. It doesn’t have to be every time you put food into your mouth, but at least you are aware of the repercussions and don’t do it every time you eat. This goes for all aspects of food – nutrition, energy content, side effects or additives.

A great source of information is anything by Sue Dengate, of Failsafe fame. Her foods are free of additives, and low in salicylates and amines.

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Do's and Dont's a Baby Led Weaning

DOs and DON’Ts for baby-led weaning

1. DO offer your baby the chance to participate whenever anyone else in the family is

eating. You can begin to do this as soon as he shows an interest in watching you,

although he is unlikely to be ready to put food in his mouth until he is about six months

old.

2. DO ensure that your baby is supported in an upright position while he is experimenting

with food. In the early days you can sit him on your lap, facing the table. Once he is

beginning to show skill at picking food up he will almost certainly be mature enough to

sit, with minimal support, in a high chair.

3. DO start by offering foods that are baby-fist-sized, preferably chip-shaped (i.e., with a

‘handle’). As far as possible, and provided they are suitable, offer him the same foods

that you are eating, so that he feels part of what is going on.

4. DO offer a variety of foods. There is no need to limit your baby’s experience with food

any more than you do with toys.

5. DON’T hurry your baby. Allow him to direct the pace of what he is doing. In particular,

don’t be tempted to ‘help’ him by putting things in his mouth for him.

6. DON’T expect your baby to eat any food on the first few occasions. Once he has

discovered that these new toys taste nice, he will begin to chew and, later, to swallow.

7. DON’T expect a young baby to eat all of each piece of food at first – remember that he

won’t yet have developed the ability to get at food which is inside his fist.

8. DO try rejected foods again later – babies often change their minds and later accept

foods they originally turned down.

9. DON’T leave your baby on his own with food.

10. DON’T offer foods which present an obvious danger, such as peanuts.

11. DON’T offer ‘fast’ foods, ready meals or foods that have added salt or sugar.

12. DO offer water from a cup but don’t worry if your baby shows no interest in it. A

breastfed baby, in particular, is likely to continue for some time to get all the drinks he

needs from the breast.

13. DO be prepared for the mess! A clean plastic sheet on the floor under the high chair

will protect your carpet and make clearing up easier. It will also enable you to give

back foods that have been dropped, so that less is wasted. (You will be pleasantly

surprised at how quickly your baby learns to eat with very little mess!)

14. DO continue to allow your baby to breastfeed whenever he wants, for as long as he

wants. Expect his feeding pattern to change as he starts to eat more solid foods.

15. If you have a family history of food intolerance, allergy or digestive problems, DO

discuss this method of weaning with your health advisers before embarking on it.

16. Finally, DO enjoy watching your baby learn about food – and develop his skills with his

hands and mouth in the process!

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Baby Led Weaning

I clearly remember my sister telling me one day to turn around a look at her daughter in the high chair. She was eating spagetti, cramming it in by the fist full. It was all over the table, her hands, her face, and even the floor. What a joy! She wasn't being naughty, she wasn't throwing it. She was enjoying herself throughly, while controlling how much went in her mouth herself.


This, it turns out, is Baby Led Weaning (BLW). Heres a low down on what it is and how to do it.


CONTROL - Whether breast fed or bottle fed, babies are used to controlling their intake of milk - how fast they suck, how much they suck and sometimes, how often they feed. It makes sense to me that they are able to control the intake of solids as well.


Babies are inquisitive little creatures too, and are eating solids out of cusiosity, rather than hunger. When first introducing solids, the bulk of nutrition and energy comes from milk.


Once their little hands get moving, babies are out to touch and taste almost anything they can get their hands on - car keys, dirt, their own feet. They love to explore and feel their world, including the food they eat.


CHOKING - I guess your first reaction is to assume to baby will choke if the food isn't pureed. With BLW, babies control what enters their mouth - Sakura would feel it around the front of her mouth before mushing it with her tongue and swallowing. Plus she was feeding it in herself with her hands, only putting as much in as she could handle.


It feels like she has LESS chance of choking because she never puts anything new in her mouth without feeling it around inside her mouth first. We're yet to see if I'm wrong, but being a baby, theres been some pretty weird stuff go in there!


Spoon feeding on the other hand encourages babies to suck the food straight into the back of their mouths. No feeling, tasting or discovering done on the way there!


GUMS CHEW FOOD - babies are capable of sucking or biting of a section of soft strawberry, avacado or steamed veg with their gums, and mushing it around with their gums and tongue before swallowing.


FIST SIZED FOODS - cut the food into long chip sized pieces, so they baby can hold onto a section and bite of the other. This allows them to control the amount of food, as opposed to bite sized pieces were they are forced to cram the whole lot in.


Baby unable to hold the food? It would make sense that they just aren't ready for solids yet?


VARIETY - offering a variety of textures, colours, flavours, sizes, and shapes gives the baby an amazing introduction to real foods, A couple of different vegetables pureed to a pulp offers none of this!


FOODS
Avacado
Strawberries
Pear
Banana
Kiwi Fruit
Stone fruit - mango, peach.
Steamed apple
Steamed pumpkin, cauliflower, choko (chayote), zucchini


WHEN YOU GET CONFIDENT - these foods are a little firmer
Steamed brocolli,  carrot sweet potato and potato
Cherry tomato
Grapes, watermelon, mandarine


Have fun and take lots of photos! Its such a joy to see a baby really discover the appearance, taste and texture of food.


Heres a great link to help : http://www.babyledweaning.com/

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