Cut finger foods into small pieces: Once your child is ready for finger foods, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that you cut food into pieces no larger than 1/2 inch, especially dried fruits and
round hard foods, such as grapes, cherries, and tomatoes.
Not exact matches
Avoid
foods like nuts, whole grapes or cherries with pits, marshmallows, hot dogs, and
round,
hard candies or gum.
Certain
foods that are
hard,
round and smooth, like hot dogs, raw carrots, grapes, olives, cherries, raisins, popcorn and nuts, pose a choking hazard and should not be offered to your baby at all at this age, no matter how small the pieces are cut.
Hard, sticky, slippery, chunky, and
round foods are unsafe for young children because they can easily choke on them.
In order to get perfect toddler nutrition, avoid the
foods that cause choking to the toddler such as chips, nuts, whole grapes, celery, raw carrots, raisins
round or
hard candy, large pieces of fruit, large pieces of hot dogs and popcorn.
These include
hard, smooth, or chewy
foods that must be chewed with a grinding motion or
foods that are
round and could easily get stuck in the throat.
I think this might be because we think of the large
round shelled coconut and the more
hard / dry meat that is inside it; there really is no way to prepare coconut «baby
food» and offering a baby a dish of pureed coconut is really not an option.
Children under 5 should not eat small,
round or
hard foods, including pieces of hot dogs, cheese sticks or chunks,
hard candy, nuts, grapes, marshmallows or popcorn.
Always avoid choking hazards such as
hard and / or stringy vegetables and fruits, small
round - shaped
foods such as grapes that aren't sliced lengthwise, sticky
foods such as peanut butter (on it's own), gum, popcorn, marshmallows, whole nuts and seeds, fish with bones, and unsliced hot dogs or sausages.
In addition, the
food is a new shape (less
round, more like flat pellets), and my two adult cats somehow have a
hard time eating it, resulting in cat
food all over the basement.
Commercially prepared egg
foods, like biscuits or crumbles, as well as
hard - boiled eggs and mealworms are important sources of protein for finches and should be offered all year
round, but especially when breeding.