Learn English – What’s the correct term to describe baby food

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I thought it could be described as grind food. But a native speaker told me it's ground food. However, what Google shows me is quite different.

What's the correct term?

Best Answer

As Mari-Lou has said, puréed is probably the best term, and the one most often used today:

Baby food is normally puréed.

However, if you want a word with a Germanic root, rather than a loan-word, then you could use mashed:

Baby food is normally mashed.

Older recipe books (printed before the advent of food processors) would probably use mashed instead of puréed, and the term mashed is still used in traditional British cooking. For example: mashed potatoes, bangers and mash.

mash verb [WITH OBJECT]

Reduce (a food or other substance) to a pulpy mass by crushing it:

  • ‘mash the beans to a paste’
  • ‘mashed banana’

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