Camila Alves Says Baby Food Keeps Her Tummy Flat for NYFW

Camila Alves eats baby food on the reg. We’ve heard of the restrictive baby food diet, but that’s not Alves’s MO. She is a co-founder of Yummy Spoonfuls, an organic baby food brand, and she eats the packets of pureed fruits and veggies as snacks during fashion week. She says it keeps her tummy flat. “I had one on the way here,” she told The Post at the Rebecca Minkoff show this weekend. “It’s so hot out, so they’re the perfect on-the-go snack to stay cool.”

To us, this seems like a less pleasant smoothie bowl — but maybe a cheap and easy way to get your greens when your life is fashionably hectic? We wonder how it could be stomach-flattening without leaving us calorie-deprived, though. “You don’t need to resort to eating baby food in order to obtain a flatter stomach,” assures nutritionist Dorit Jaffe of Whole Healthy Glow. “If you want something similar to this, make a smoothie with ginger and greens in it, or have a green juice with lemon and ginger. Drinking lemon and ginger aids digestion and relieves any bloating.”

Blending up your fruits and vegetables can make their high fiber content easier to digest, so both baby food and smoothies can be tummy-flattening if you’re prone to bloating. “[Blending makes] fiber more easily digested and you absorb more nutrients this way, as well as avoiding spikes in blood sugar,” says Jaffe. But she warns, “It’s better to nourish your body with freshly made recipes and not prepackaged goods that have lost most of their nutritional value and are usually higher in sugar and contain preservatives.” If you’re interested in trying it, don’t go for just any baby food. “In baby food there tends to be added fruit juices, so there’s less fiber in general if the entire fruit hasn’t been blended in,” says Jaffe. Alves’s Yummy Spoonfuls is organic, non-GMO, and prides itself on being preservative, added sugar, and juice concentrate-free. This is key if you’re in it for the de-bloating properties, but we think we’ll stick to our fav smoothie bowls.