baby food

noun

plural baby foods

: soft cooked food (such as steamed and pureed or strained vegetables, grains, or meats) used to introduce infants to nonliquid foods

Check labeling on baby food carefully so you know exactly what you're feeding your baby.

—Leila Cobo-Hanlon

…baby foods free of genetically modified organisms.

—Kenneth Klee

Examples of baby food in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Police said a customer at the time of the discovery had reported that a jar appeared to have been tampered with, but no one had consumed the baby food. —ABC News, 3 May 2026

HiPP responded by recalling all of its baby food jars sold at SPAR supermarkets — which include SPAR, EUROSPAR, INTERSPAR and Maximarkt stores — in Austria as a precaution. —CBS News, 3 May 2026

Vendors in Slovakia and the Czech Republic also removed all of the brand’s baby food jars from sale. —Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026

Police in Austria ‌said late on Saturday that rat poison was found inside a jar of HiPP baby food, following a recall of the product from 1,500 SPAR supermarkets in the country over safety fears. —Reuters, NBC news, 19 Apr. 2026

There are no raises for picture-perfect baby food or trophies for late-night speed-emailing. —Andee Tagle, NPR, 17 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above