Cold Pressed Baby Food is a relatively new trend in the baby food industry. It’s not traditional baby food that you can buy at a grocery store, but it is healthy.
Cold Pressed Baby Food uses the same process for making juice drinks by extracting liquid from fruit and vegetables using hydraulic pressure.
Instead of using water or fruit juice as the first process, cold-pressed baby food uses pureed raw fruits and vegetables.
What is Cold Pressed Baby Food?
Cold Pressed Baby Food is a whole food product that consists of fruit and vegetable purees prepared using hydraulic pressure instead of water.
It is a fruit & vegetable juice drink that has been refined in water instead of a centrifuge process. In other words, it is cold-pressed juice without the centrifuge, which makes it completely natural. Unlike other baby foods, cold-pressed baby food is made from 100% organic ingredients.
How to make Cold Pressed Baby Food?
Ingredients
- 2-3 ripe, ripe bananas
- 1 orange (peeled, seeded, and segmented)
- 2-3 fresh/frozen/thawed fruit (strawberries, blueberries, bananas, apples)
- 1 cup of water
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
- sugar or salt to taste
- 3/4 cup of water (for blending)
Blend the ingredients in a blender using 3/4 cup of water. Pour the blended juice into your healthy baby food processor or high-pressure juicer and process until desired consistency is reached. Put it into your freezer for future use.
Prepare
Step 1
To prepare the fruit, take the fruit you want to use and cut it into small pieces. Put the orange, banana, and strawberries in a blender with water. Puree until a puree consistency is reached.
Step 2
Put the desired amount of puree into your high-pressure juicer or blender at 3-5 times more than the amount of fruit for safety reasons.
Step 3
Add ice cubes to get your desired consistency. Add salt or sugar if necessary to taste.
Step 4
Place the high-pressure juicer or blender into your freezer overnight to chill.
Step 5
Put the high-pressure juicer or blender into your freezer for a couple of hours until it cools. The cold-pressed juice will be ready in around 3-4 hours.
Step 6
When you want to use your cold-pressed baby food, pour water into the high-pressure juicer or blender before putting your ingredients in. This will get the most out of your juice and help make the puree smoother and more precise.
Step 7
Add ice cubes to get your desired consistency. Add salt or sugar if necessary to taste.
Tips for making Cold-Pressed Baby Food
To avoid juice sticking to the bottom of your blender, add 1/4 cup of water before you blend your ingredients.
Is Cold-Pressed Baby Food Safe?
Cold-pressed baby food is a 100% natural product of 100% organic ingredients. It is free from pesticides and preservatives. The safety of cold-pressed baby food is highly disputed.
Some believe it is unadulterated, and others believe it has a toxic effect on infants. Cold-pressed baby food uses the same process as juices, and juices cause no harm to children’s health or development.
The Benefits Of Cold-Pressed Baby Food
Cold-pressed baby food has many health benefits. It is high in Iron, Selenium, and Vitamin C
Cold-pressed baby food helps boost the immune system, digestive system, and skin health. It is a healthy organic product containing processed foods without the chemical additives and preservatives that can be dangerous to infants.
10 ideas of Cold Pressed Baby Food
1. Date & Banana Baby Food
In a blender or a food processor, blend the banana and dates until it becomes smooth
2. Apple, Strawberry & Orange Smoothie
Core the apples and cut them into small pieces. Put them into your high-pressure juicer with fresh strawberries and peeled oranges. Chill in ice water to make it into a portion of cold-pressed baby food.
3. Apples, Oranges & Banana Baby Food
Peel the orange and cut it into small pieces.
4. Avocado, Banana & Mango Baby Food
Take a ripe avocado, peel it and remove the pit. Put frozen mango and banana into your high-pressure juicer or blender. Chill in ice water to make it into a portion of cold-pressed baby food.
5. Broccoli, Apple & Cold Pressed Juice Baby Food
Remove stalks from broccoli and cut them into small pieces.
6. Butternut Squash, Apple & Dates Baby Food
Peel the squash and remove seeds. Cut into small pieces. Put it with fresh banana and dates into your high-pressure juicer or blender. Chill in ice water to make it into a portion of cold-pressed baby food.
7. Cabbage & Apple Baby Food
Remove the outer leaves from the cabbage, then peel the rest of the cabbage head and cut it into pieces. Put them into your high-pressure juicer or blender with apple slices or chunks.
8. Carrots, Peas & Apple Baby Food
Remove the tops of carrots, then peel the rest and cut them into pieces. Put them into your high-pressure juicer or blender with apples.
9. Cherry, Banana & Pear Baby Food
Remove stalks from cherries and cut them into small pieces.
10. Peach, Apricot & Banana Baby Food
Take a ripe peach, peel it and remove the pit.
Conclusion
Cold-pressed baby food is a healthy product that provides nutrition to infants without harmful chemicals. It is an excellent alternative to regular processed food and helps stimulate appetite and boost the immune system.
Following our ideas, we hope you can make cold-pressed baby food with your family or gift it as a present for someone who loves your babies.
