High chairs: Compare features & prices

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Weight (kg)
Weight of the high chair assembled for use

Space required for use (wxd in cm)
When opened out and in use.

Type of harness
What type of harness is included at the time of purchase. Parents prefer a five-point harness which gives some torso support to younger children.

Adjustable seat height
Whether the position of the seat can be lowered on the frame of the high chair.

Reclining backrest
Whether the seat can be reclined backwards, to feet a younger baby or so your child can snooze after they eat.

Removable tray
Whether the tray can be easily removed without requiring the undoing of screws or use of tools.

Number of tray positions
The number of tray depth positions possible.

Dual trays
The top tray can be removed when it's dirty for easier cleaning, still leaving the lower tray in place.

Range of features
Assesses the range of features available on each high chair including: adjustable and removable tray with removable insert; seat height and recline adjustment; adjustable footrest; removable, machine-washable and padded covers, converting to a childs chair and folding for storage.

Changing the tray position
How easy it is to adjust the tray position for children of different ages.

Removing the tray
How easy it is to remove the tray from the high chair. This rating only applies to high chairs tested from 2012 onwards.

Reclining the seat
How easy it is to recline the backrest of the seat.

Adjusting the seat height
How easy it is to adjust the height of the seat.

For the parent
How easy it is for parents to feed their child in this high chair.

For the child
How easy it is for children to feed themselves in this high chair.

Assembling the high chair
Includes assessment of the quality of the instructions and how easy it was and how long it took our lab experts to assemble each high chair straight out of the box. For booster and seat harnesses this is just how easy it is to set the chair or harness up to use it.

Moving the unfolded high chair
How easy it is to move the unfolded high chair, taking into account how heavy and bulky it is.

Folding and unfolding the high chair
How easy it is to unfold the high chair.

Ease of cleaning
How easy it is to clean the high chair covering the seat itself, covers tray and harness, including an assessment of how easily components are stained by food.

Ease of removing the covers
Ease of removing the covers to clean or pack away the high chair.

High chair safety
This rating is was awarded by parent testers and is their perceived accessment of how stable the high chair is. It is not the result of the safety assessment conducted by our laboratory which did not reveal any problems to cause concern. It is a consensus opinion, not a guarantee that the product is safe or not safe. Parents considered aspects such as how well their child was enclosed and held in the seat, whether they could lever themselves to stand up or slide about, if they could wriggle out of parts of the harness, or trap fingers or other parts of their body in the mechanisms. A 3-star rating indicates that the perceived safety of the high chair is acceptable. 4-stars indicate that is the product is perceived to have good stability. A 5-star rating means that parents perceived and would have described the stability of the high chair as very good/excellent/the best/far above average.

High chair stability
This rating is was awarded by parent testers and is their perceived accessment of how stable the high chair is. It is not the result of the safety assessment conducted by our laboratory which did not reveal any problems to cause concern. It is a consensus opinion, not a guarantee that the product is safe or not safe. A 3-star rating indicates that the perceived stability of the high chair is acceptable. 4-stars indicate that is the product is perceived to have good stability. A 5-star rating means that parents perceived and would have described the stability of the high chair as very good/excellent/the best/far above average.

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