FR2586341A1 - Food products for babies and infants - Google Patents

Abstract

Design of a range of food products for babies and infants. This range will comprise fruit juices, herbal teas, stewed fruits, and savoury purees. The foods proposed for children of under six months will have the form of cylindrical ice blocks which can be fitted into feeding bottles for thawing and heating to the correct temperature in a microwave oven. The edible products will be proposed in the form of assortments so as to propose a choice to the consumers which will cover their child's requirements for one week per package unit. This invention is aimed more particularly at owners of microwave ovens.

Description

The present invention relates to the feeding of very young children.
Currently, there are commercially available mixtures of fruits, vegetables, vegetables plus meat or fish which are sterilized in small glass jars.

All these preparations have roughly the same flavor and the small jars containing salty preparations are even tasteless. In addition, these small glass jars are quite difficult to store. This invention is to freeze baby food. The suggested products will be: fruit juices, herbal teas, soups, compotes, purees, preparations made with vegetables and meats or fish.

 This invention will therefore make it possible to improve the food products offered to children, in fact, this method of preservation has the advantage of retaining the taste proper to each preparation.

 List of products that will be offered according to the age of the child.

From birth
The principle of presentation takes into account the fact that at this age infants only take bottles. It is therefore necessary to design cylindrical ice cubes which will have the diameter of the smallest bottle offered on the market. The quantities absorbed being minimal, we will only offer portions of lo grams. So there will be no more waste, more bad storage in refrigerators often of questionable hygiene, more ampow- les to break
The patentings to be developed are: fruit juices (which are already commercially available in small quantities but in the form of ampoules), herbal teas which are, however, a novelty. At the present time, it is necessary to boil water, infuse plants there, filter and cool again, and this is not yet done after all these operations. These herbal ice cubes would allow owners of microwaves to have a preparation ready in 30 seconds.

The purpose of these herbal teas is to cure or calm a few small ailments that very young children suffer from: vomiting; colic, nasopharyngitis, dental growth, fevers with vaccines, nervousness, insomnia
From two months.

Around two months, babies start to take soups; according to the opinion of the pediatrician of vegetables and fruit this until four months old.

 The soups will be presented like herbal teas and fruit juices but in 100 gram portions.

Leek is fairly indigestible for toddlers, better avoid it
We can make various soups
- potatoes, carrots, tomatoes
- potatoes, green beans
- potatoes, fennel, carrots
- potatoes, chard leaves ect It will be necessary to ensure that these soups are sufficiently mixed to prevent the nipples of the bottles from clogging.

Fruit and vegetable purees. They will also be presented in the form of cylindrical ice cubes but in 70-gram portions.

The baby who will have trouble eating with a spoon will have his mixture added to a little milk; for the others we will put the preparations in a dish to defrost and if necessary reheat.

Ixettiples of fruit preparations
- strawberry peaches - banana, currant
- peach, banana - white peach, raspberry
- apple, banana - apple, pear
- blackcurrant, quince - blackcurrant, banana ect Examples of preparations based on vegetables
- carrots for the very beginning and from three months the choice rou3 - in addition more varied: fennel, artichokes, green or yellow beans, potatoes, spinach, pumpkin.

From four months.

Introduction to the diet of lean meat and fish. The portions will also be 70 grams and will always have the shape of cylinders to avoid "traumatizing" the babies who are the most reluctant to curdle. The proportions, roughly speaking, will be as follows: 60 grams of vegetables - 10 grams of meat or of fish.

Examples of preparations w to offer
- mince pie
- carrots, fennel, potatoes, ham
- spinach, maTzéna, gruyère, hard-boiled egg yolk
- carrots, almonds, chicken
- asparagus soup, hard egg yolk
- lean pot au feu without leek
- hake, tomatoes, potatoes
- veal stew with mushroom and rice
From six months.

 At six months, the children spoon with a teaspoon, so the cylindrical shape is no longer Otre. We will therefore adopt the most practical form for the manufacturer.

The choice of dishes will widen and the portions will be 140 grams (120 grams of vegetables; 20 grams of meat or fish)
To the list previously given we can add:
- Cod brandade
- tomatoes, butter beans, tapioca, lamb
- couscous without peppers, and lean meat.

- brains, extra fine peas, carrots
- fashion beef without onion and wine
- spaghetti bolognese
- white beans with skin removed, tomatoes and lamb
- zucchini, potatoes, lamb
- tuna or cod, eggplant, tomatoes, potatoes
The method of preparation of the products will depend on their variety.

The preparations based on vegetables will be cooked in sterile casseroles of the "pressure cooker" type in order to preserve all the nutritional qualities of the products. Blles will then be reduced to porridge with sterilized utensils in a laboratory which will have been passed to ultra violet. Then, it will be necessary to reach the temperature of -400 C as quickly as possible
Herbal teas will be frozen as soon as the infusion is sufficient.

The compotes will be prepared with first quality fruits and will be steamed without having been previously peeled. The fruits will be mashed under very strict hygienic conditions. If the fruits come from very polluted regions or if they have undergone chemical treatments, they will first be peeled. The preparations will also be cooled and frozen as quickly as possible.

All these products must be vacuum packed so aerobic microorganisms cannot develop.

Herbal teas will be offered in a single variety (example: 20 ice cubes of verbena herbal tea). On the other hand, fruit juices, soups, purees, compotes will be offered as an assortment, the aim being to offer young parents a choice that will cover their child's needs for one meal per unit of packaging. Supper will be offered by fourteen as well as vegetables, compotes until the age of six months and by seven beyond.

The major problem with freezing is the non-interruption of the cold chain. In order to reassure potential consumers, a revealing tablet should be provided on the cardboard packaging which would take on a certain color when the temperature of - 180C was reached. and which would change color when the temperature rises0
This invention offers new opportunities for manufacturers of frozen products and will surely allow microwave oven manufacturers to increase their production.

Claims (4)

1) Gamma of food products for babies and all young children containing herbal teas, fruit juices, compotes, soups, vegetable purees and vegetable purees enriched with animal proteins. These products are characterized in that they will be frozen. 2) Presentation according to reseller 1 characterized in that the herbal teas, soups will be cylindrical cups whose diameter will be a little infiltrator to that of the smallest bottle offered to the choice of the customers on the market and that the purees and compotes will be either cylinders or platelets. 3) presentation according to claim 1 and 2 characterized in that the products will be vacuum-packed and that a revealing tablet placed outside the packaging will indicate if the cold weather has been interrupted. 4) Presentation according to claims 1 and 2 characterized in that the compotes, soups and purees will be packed in sufnis ^ nXe pot quantity to cover the needs of a child for a whole week and herbal teas and fruit juices offered in multiple quantity of 20