Chives add excellent taste to food and are safe to eat while pregnant. The nutrients protect you from illness, protect your bones and enhance your digestion.

Confinement food can be bland, so spice it up with chives! While they add flavour to food, the fibre will help keep your gut healthy, while the calcium with help prevent osteaoporosis.

It's perfectly safe to eat chives while you're breastfeeding. Some mums even find it a breastmilk booster. It also adds great taste to food.

Some babies like the taste of garlic-tasting chives in their food. But, others may become fussy and irritated. If you believe garlic is causing issues for your child, you may want to try eliminating it from the baby's food for a while to see if it makes any difference. Still, you can introduce chives when your baby is around 6 months old.