Sushi Question - at what age raw fish?
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Anonymous
| DD loves sushi and will eat any vegetable or "cooked" roll. Lately she has been clamoring to try the raw fish. At what age did you introduce your DC to raw fish? |
Anonymous
| 12 months old. Seriously. DS has had various food/eating problems, and I have had a hard time getting enough protein into him (or what I think is enough). But one day he tried some smoked salmon and loved it, and so the next time I was having seared tuna I gave him a few bites of that and he gobbled it up... so I asked his Ped and she said sushi/sashimi from a trusted place would be fine at a year old. He's 14 months now and gets some salmon and tuna sashimi about once/week. He loves it. |
Anonymous
| We feed our 20 month old raw products in moderation -- proscuitto, sushi/sashimi and smoked salmon. Not every day and from good places. That said, a European friend of mine was surprised that this was ok. Not sure what age they start with these products there. I didn't ask our doctor. |
Anonymous
| 18 months for my twins. No problems ever (well, except that sushi is expensive and they can easily eat $60 worth in one sittig between the two of them)! |
Anonymous
| I'm a nanny - my boss is a pediatrician and has been feeding her daughter raw fish and prosciutto since 12mos. I say go for it! |
Anonymous
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I grew up in Japan where everybody eats fresh raw fish daily, and also had my DD1 there.
In Japan usually parents are told to wait until their kids are at least 3 years old to give raw fish, mostly because of the risk of food poisoning. Many parents don't wait that long, so I think the average is somewhere at age 2, but it's not very common that 1 year old eats raw fish in the country. Personally I introduced my DD1 to raw fish when she was almost 3, and DD2 at 24-25 months by accident (she took some from her big sister's plate.) And let me warn you one thing; when you give raw fish to your kids, be sure to avoid white tuna. I had never even heard of the fish until I came to America, and found out why after I got sick from trying it at a non-Japanese owned Japanese restaurant. http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2013/09/10/why-that-restaurant-meal-made-you-sick |
Anonymous
Prosciutto and smoked salmon aren't raw. |
Anonymous
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Same here, very early 18mos or so.
WE not have a big problem on our hands. Our boys are very expensive. They love sushi and it is always their #1 request when we go out to eat. They like it over Pizza and burgers. |
Anonymous
| Thanks all! This is OP and DD is 19 months. I was thinking maybe I was a little crazy for even contemplating letting her try it, but you all have made me feel better about it. |
Anonymous
| I'm the same - both kids started around 1. They both love it. |
Anonymous
They are not cooked either. Hence the specific recommendations I mentioned. |
Anonymous
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I would worry about overdoing tuna at such a young age, because of mercury. For smaller fish, lower on the food chain, probably not as much of a worry. But mercury builds up in big, fatty, cold-water, top-of-the-food-chain fish like tuna.
I'd stick to things like salmon, mackerel, whitefish, etc., along with the cooked shrimp and crabstick. Maybe tuna as the rare treat. (Tuna is also overfished, but that's a different worry.) |
Anonymous
| Tried first around 12 months and it was spit out. Tried again around 18 months and has been eating various fish since. Sometimes successfully, sometimes ends up spit out. |