Alcohol in meal
Is it okay to give my baby part of our meal which contains alcohol (steak and ale pie) surely the alcohol will have cooked off?
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6 months, probably not since they’re just being introduced to foods anyway. 12 months, I’d go for it - the amount of alcohol in a few bites of pie is going to be so small. There is naturally occurring alcohol in fruit that we don’t ever worry about
The alcohol doesn’t all “cook off,” the food will have some kind of alcohol content. Babies process alcohol with much more difficulty than adults and there is some research out there on the impact on their kidneys and comparisons between how adults and babies of different ages process similar amounts of alcohol. I can’t remember what I found when I was looking into it but I fell down a rabbit hole over this exact question once.