Eating well for eczema | Papaya and banana smoothie

This is a delicious, eczema friendly smoothie with plenty of flavour if you use ripe bananas and papaya. Leaving the smoothie in the fridge for half an hour helps the flavours to develop even more. Your little ones can help with peeling and slicing the bananas ready to be liquidised and they’ll have fun scooping out the seeds with a spoon too!

Papaya is packed with vitamin C which has antihistamine properties, helping to relieve some of the symptoms of eczema. To read more about how vitamins and minerals can help with the management of your little one’s eczema, click here.

Ingredients

• 1 ripe banana, peeled and sliced
• 1 papaya, halved, seeds removed and peeled
• 125ml organic oat milk
• Juice 1 lime

Makes 4 small smoothies

Method

1. Put the sliced banana and papaya in a liquidiser.
2. Add the oat milk and lime juice and whizz up until smooth. Add a little more oat milk if
   necessary to get the required consistency.
3. Put in the fridge for ½ hour for the flavours to develop.
4. Pour into little bottles and serve with straws.

As well as sharing our experience of bringing up an eczema child (and favourite allergy-friendly recipes), we also manufacture and sell our unique stay-on scratch mitts and PJs for itchy babies, toddlers and children. We now stock sizes from 0-adult years in a range of colours and designs. Visit our online shop for more information.