Also, she sometimes chokes on food, and vomits. Sue Gilbert Sue is a consulting nutritionist. For many years she worked with Earth's Best Organic Baby Food, integrating nutrition and product development. She has written numerous articles on children's health and nutrition for parenting publications. Yes, this is all very normal when it comes to learning to eat solids.
Babies gag a lot.
For them it is not alarming, and won't be if you don't react that way either. The chunky jarred foods may be causing the gagging because of the confusion between the pureed background and chunks. That process is not handled too gracefully by a baby. You may need to be a little more sympathetic to this in the foods you select to give to her. Rather than giving a puree with chunks, try giving her a thicker straight puree, such as a thicker baby cereal, but then make sure the chunk stuff is pure chunk, eg finger foods.