My daughter is almost nine months old and has only one tooth. Lumpy food often leads her to gag and vomit. Since fresh fruit has always been somewhat problematic. The fruit also sucker I can give her time fresh fruit without puree it always the same. Banana I would now be not just in the power into it, but so far it has worked well with pear, strawberry and apple. I give her the fruit sucker under supervision and when she has had enough, and the fruit is sucked empty, I wash it out the same. So the net quite a while stays nice. And as duration of teat it is also not used. For fruit gift traveling I have not tried it yet, but with a small bag and this should not be a problem. Whether it is now redundant, everyone must decide for themselves. If the child already can chew well and have no problems with small pieces, then it is safe even without the fruit sucker. I am at least very happy with it.