How to Choose the Best Baby Food – 4 popular Japanese Baby Foods Review

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– Baby Food Supplements

In order to meet the baby’s growing nutritional needs, professionals recommend adding supplements to your baby’s regular diet with breastfeeding at the age of 4-6 months!

However, adding “snack” to meal can be tricky. The addition of baby food supplement requires a lot of homeworks, which is basically in accordance with the development of the baby. Baby at different developmental stages, such as weaning and teeth-growing, require distinct selections of food supplements – Don’t worry, after reading this blog you will get to know how to choose the solid food for your baby.

Today we provided a detailed review for 4 baby foods for baby of different stages. All products are super popular around the world – and still, all 4 products are made by Japanese brands.

How to Choose the Best Baby Food – 4 popular Japanese Baby Foods Review

Wakodo Japan has been an expert in the field of baby products for more than 100 years. Its fame is comparable to Meiji in Japan – with free of additives guaranteed, food products from Wakodo is very recommended for the little babies who have just started the baby food!

Product Reviewed:

Powdered Rice Porridge Starter Pack

[Capacity]: 50g (5g*10 bags)

[Applicable age]: Baby over 5 months

[Ingredients]: rice flour (Japan), oligosaccharide, vegetable oil/ sodium citrate, citric acid, antioxidant (vitamin E).

Safe and delicious: Made from Japanese domestic jasmine rice, Wakodo promises never use articial flavors, pigments or preservatives.

Easy to digest: It is rich in a variety of essential nutrients for baby’s growth, and more importantly the fiber is specially made for baby, which can greatly prevent food from upsetting baby’s digestive system.

Independent packaging: The neat package is not only safe and hygienic, but also very easy for mom to carry. It only takes seconds for the power to dissolve into porridge, and the delicate amount of each packages is just right for the little one to have for a meal.

Babebubble’s Review:

It is easy to make, and we believe everyone can make a bowl of soft and puffed up rice porridge with it by just adding hot water. You can smell the rice after pouring hot water, and it has a bit natural sweet taste. This kind of food can be easily digested and absorbed by babies, and all ingredients are unlikely to trigger allergy. Thanks for these characteristics, many moms to choose this rice porridge as the baby’s first attempt to solid food, and we do believe it would be a wise choice.

Japanese “Somen” Noodles for Baby

[Capacity]: 100g

[Applicable age]: 5 months +

[Ingredients]: wheat flour.

Baby’s essential: baby eats baby noodles that are soft and easy to chew and swallow; noodles are cut into pieces and easy to cook, which can greatly balance baby’s nutrition needs

Easy to digest: The unique salt-free procedure helps to better control baby’s sodium intake while providing baby with essential growth nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrates etc.

Health and safety: wheat is the main raw material, and this one is also free of preservatives, bleach or artificial colors.

Babebubble’s Review:

The noodles have been cut into small pieces thus it is rather easy to cook and for baby to eat. There is no special taste in the noodle itself, but you can always add your baby’s favorite meat and vegetable when cooking the noodle. It is one of the best choices for baby after the porridge.

Pigeon Japan is a maternal and child products brand since 1957. The key word of this brand is “love”, and the brand has been serving mom and babies around the world with a full range of high-quality maternal and child supplies and services since its establishment. Star products include baby bottles, peach water and various selections of baby food supplement.

Product Reviewed:

Pigeon High Calcium Spinach Biscuits

[Capacity]: 40g (20g * 2 bags)

[Applicable age]: 9 months +

[Ingredients]: Flour, sugar, shortening, FOS, soy milk, Japanese mustard powder, spinach powder, salt, calcium carbonate, swelling agent

Rich in Nutrients: Biscuits are non-fried with calcium and vitamins added, which can help baby’s bones and teeth growth and effectively alleviate the upset during the tooth-growing period.

Delicious and portable: Individually packaged, the biscuits are clean and hygienic overall. The concentric design of the biscuits makes it easier for baby to pick up, which not only can exercise the baby’s chewing function, but also can train the baby’s swallowing action and finger grip.

Babebubble’s Review:

As a small biscuit, its shape and nutritional considerations are impressive. The crunchy taste allows the baby who is teething to eat for a long time. The biscuits have a very refreshing taste without strong tastes like salty or overly sweet. The shape of the biscuits is attractive to baby too since its concentric design can easily be grasped by babies. This is a perfect combination of baby food supplements and teethers – delicious and fun to play with.

Established in 1917, Morinaga Milk Industry has always been involved primarily in business activities relating to production and sale of dairy products. They published the first generation of Morinaga milk powder since 1920. The strength of the brand is their continuing efforts on researching the nutrition and physiological functions of breast milk and the nutrients needed for the growth of infants and young children.

Product Reviewed:

Morinaga Nutritious Tomato Risotto

[Capacity]: 120g

[Applicable age]: 12 months +

[Ingredients]: Vegetables (carrots, onions, broccoli), milled rice (domestic), tomato puree, corn, shrimp, milk calcium, salt, chicken extract, yeast extract, iron pyrophosphate nutrition component

Strictly selected ingredients: 100% use Japanese domestic vegetables, Morinaga promises to supply baby with safe, reliable, high-quality products backed by their unique product development capabilities

Free the mom: no need for cook, mom can either reheat the package in hot water or feed directly

Babebubble’s Review:

This is a baby food product that really relieve mothers. When you open the package, you can smell the risotto of the glutinous rice. To satisfy babies at this stage, mixed nutrients is not enough – the taste and smell become key pursuit too.

Morinaga also provides a large selection of nutritious risotto, so you can always find the one that is just right for your baby. Choices include shrimp broccoli tomato risotto, tuna spinach tomato risotto, sardine plum meat risotto, tofu vegetables mixed risotto, mushroom beef risotto, chicken vegetables risotto, etc. … Fully meet the needs of children over 1 year old.

【Summary: Adding Baby Food Supplements】

As mentioned above, adding supplements to baby’s diet needs to be gradual, meaning you shall carefully select the ingredients that can be consumed by baby according to the age and developmental stage. In general, we have prepared the following rules for moms:

Food Categories

Food supplements should be added in the order of “starch (cereal) – vegetables – fruit – animal products”. In other words, baby should start with cereals, at which stage you can add iron-containing nutrients (such as baby iron nutrient rice noodles), followed by vegetable juice/mud, then fruit juice/mud, and finally add egg tarts, poultry, meat, etc.

Intake Amount:

Baby shall be given a sample or a dip to try first, then a small portion after breastfeeding, and then mom can gradually increase the portion when the baby gets used to baby food.

Food Texture

Baby shall try liquid food first (such as rice paste, vegetable water, juice, etc.), then mud paste (such as thick rice paste, puree, meat, fish, egg yolk, etc.), and solid food at last (such as soft rice, rotten noodles, small taro, etc.).