I went to Holland a few days ago, and one of the four treasures in Holland is cheese. According to local tour guides, the average height of Dutch people has increased by 10cm+ in 20 years, which is related to their children's snack cheese.
What is cheese? Cheese, also known as cheese, cheese (cheese), although the names are different, a free translation and a transliteration, but they are all the same thing.
Actually, cheese is condensed milk. Speaking of milk, we are all familiar with it. It has high nutritional value. It is not only a food source with high calcium, but also provides protein and fat for children's physical development. But milk is mostly water, so you can't drink that much at any time. This is the advantage of cheese. Ten kilograms of milk can only be made into one kilogram of cheese, so the calcium content of a small piece of cheese can be equivalent to a large glass of milk.
All mothers know that sometimes it is even more difficult for children to finish a glass of milk. Why? There is too much water to drink. Compared with milk, a small piece of cheese can get a lot of calcium. Cheese tastes good. It can be used as a food. It's delicious and healthy, and it's simply a calcium supplement weapon. Because Liu Liu doesn't like to drink formula milk after breast-feeding, for fear of insufficient calcium intake, I often add cheese as raw material when making complementary food for her.
When can the baby eat cheese?
Cheese contains a lot of calcium, but also a lot of sodium. In the process of making cheese, salt is inevitably used. As we all know, children before 1 year-old should eat as little salt as possible or even not. So 1 this age has become an important watershed for eating cheese. Of course, many foreign families, such as children over 6 months in Britain, can eat it, while in the United States it is over 9 months. We, adhering to the principle of healthier feeding and adding cheese, can consider it after 1 year old.
How to store cheese?
Ideally, the storage condition of natural hard cheese is in a cool and humid cellar around 10- 14 degrees Celsius, but it is not realistic to keep this environment all the time during the whole sales process, so it is basically chosen to store it in cold storage. However, fresh cheese and soft cheese need to be refrigerated because of their high water content and short shelf life. Therefore, a necessary place to buy is in front of the freezer, or online shopping with ice packs. If not, the quality is worrying.
How to choose good cheese?
What are the different food types suitable for different cheese varieties? Later, let's talk about it in detail. Learn the basics of cheese first. I read yesterday's comments carefully, and many friends don't know "how to choose good cheese".
First of all, I want to explain that cheese is a good thing, but we should choose natural cheese instead of processed cheese in various packages on the market.
The reason is simple: of course, choose good food for your baby, avoid meaningless additives and reduce sodium. Our goal is to supplement calcium and other nutrients, not sodium and additives!
Although these cheeses are different in shape, they are all natural cheeses with similar ingredients, while processed cheese is made from natural cheese with other ingredients. According to FDA regulations, at least 565,438+0% of the raw materials for processing cheese are natural cheese, and less than 49% of the remaining ingredients include additives, water and other milk raw materials, such as dried milk, anhydrous cream and wheysolids.
Looking at the front appearance, these processed cheeses are no different from natural cheeses. On the contrary, the pattern is more lovely and more pleasing to children. In fact, just look for a processed cheese and you will know how complicated the ingredients are. Adults don't have to worry about the taste. Of course, babies should try to avoid such products. How can cheese made of a pile of additives be called "milk gold"? !
So how to distinguish natural cheese from processed cheese? It's actually quite simple. It is important to say it three times. Look at the ingredient list, look at the ingredient list, look at the ingredient list!
1, open your eyes to see if there is the word "reprint". Because of advertising design and other reasons, the names of cheese are not the same. But if it is processed cheese, the word "processed" must be clearly marked on the package, which is stipulated by the state. However, the word "reproduction" is not necessarily small, some are in eye-catching positions, and some, hey hey, wish to hide in the corner so that you can't see it. Therefore, it is still up to mothers to distinguish themselves. When you see the word reproduction, you put it down silently.
Whether it's light, plain or ham, it's processed cheese! Read these two words carefully. 2. What is the first ingredient on the ingredient list? The ingredients of natural cheese are generally simple: the first place must be milk (pasteurized milk is the best), salt, fermenting bacteria and so on.
In processed cheese, the situation is different. The top may be cheese, reconstituted milk, etc. There are many additives. If you see a bunch of words that you can't understand at all, they are basically processed cheese. We see that the ingredient list actually has a little trick-the simpler the better! Explain that the simpler the composition. If the top ingredient in the ingredient list is cheese or cheese, and then a series of additives, water, vegetable oil, pigments, spices and other ingredients are added, it must be processed cheese.
After knowing whether to choose natural cheese or processed cheese, it's time to talk about how to eat it. This is a very grand question, involving countless recipes. Let's talk about it today. Rollo is a foodie who has been baking at home for many years, so most kinds of cheese have been tried by herself. Because she has a China stomach that eats Chinese food everywhere, today she only recommends cheese varieties suitable for most people in China, such as blue cheese fermented by mold. Old cheese with a fermentation period of more than 65,438+02 months is too strong, so don't try it.
There are many kinds of natural cheese, but how to eat it? Let's talk about several common scenarios. There are various Chinese translations. Please try to remember English names when choosing cheese ~ ~ ~ ~
1, cheese slices sandwiched between hamburgers and sandwiches This is the hardest hit area where processed cheese runs rampant. Some people even say that cheese slices are processed cheese, but they are not. Cheddar cheese and Swiss cheese in natural cheese can basically keep their original shapes after melting. This is a real natural cheese! Generally speaking, fast food restaurants like McDonald's and KFC should use cheap processed cheese slices, while some high-end western restaurants may use natural cheese. The biggest advantage of processed cheese over natural cheese is its cheapness and value for money. 2. Cream cheese, the raw material for baking and cooking, is an immature full-fat cheese, and both heavy cheesecake and light cheesecake will be used. The difference is that heavy cheesecake uses more cheese and light cheesecake uses less cheese. I bought this cheese from Anjia, the anchor, in Metro. Later, I bought Crawley cream cheese in Philadelphia, Australia and Kiricli cream cheese in France online. However, I usually choose raw materials that need to be refrigerated, so I will buy them online.
MascarponeCheese, English name Mascarpone cheese, is the raw material of tiramisu and can also be eaten directly. This physical store in Zhengzhou didn't have it, so I bought the Italian Sterilgarda online. Mascapone cheese contains much less calcium than other cheeses, so it can be eaten as a snack. Don't choose it to supplement calcium for children. Mozzarella cheese, English mozzarella, is melted cheese, which can be brushed, and is mainly used to make pizza and roast rice. This imported supermarket is the most common. I don't have a fixed brand, so I buy all kinds, but the drawing situation is slightly different. Parmesan cheese, English Parmesan cheese, can be ground into granules or powder and sprinkled on pasta, pizza or salad to add flavor. Because it is troublesome to handle it yourself, you can directly buy powdered or granular cheese powder and cheese crumbs. 3. Cut into pieces as direct snacks. This way of eating requires the highest quality of cheese and is not easy to adapt to the taste. Some children like to eat natural cheese pieces, while others don't accept them. When snacks are eaten directly, I see more processed cheese. I once bought a piece of cheese from Lezhi Niu and made it again. I thought it would be better processed, but I can open it and have a taste. It was too salty for me to eat, let alone let Liu Liu eat it, so I threw it away. There is also the legendary Japanese cod cheese stick, which is an adult snack and not suitable for children at all. Take this thing to supplement calcium for children, and the sodium exceeds the standard in minutes.
Processed cheese really exists like a ghost. Is it completely inedible? In my opinion, natural cheese is better than processed cheese. Except for biscuits dipped at room temperature, processed cheese is used, and natural cheese can be used, which is healthier and tastes better. However, we don't support processed cheese, which doesn't mean that processed cheese is completely inedible as garbage. It contains milk, calcium and protein. If you want to try it as a snack, you can find processed cheese with relatively low sodium content, and the nutritional value is still higher than Oreo's hydrogenated vegetable oil snacks and some puffed foods. Just don't foolishly buy processed cheese as natural cheese to supplement nutrition. No matter whether the price of processed cheese is more cost-effective, you will lose money on your baby's diet.
A friend told me that although natural cheese is good, many elderly people with children at home simply can't make it.
Many families buy natural cheese back, and the final result is to spoil it and throw it away.
How to solve this problem?
Personally, it is not technically difficult to slice cheese with bread, and it is also convenient to take out the finished slices and eat them directly. As for pizza and baked rice, pizza is a little more troublesome. Baked rice is lazy food. It takes several minutes to bake in the oven. If you don't even want to spend these efforts and want to give your child natural cheese, recommend a product.
This French babybel cheese is natural, simple in ingredients and easy to carry in small packages. If you don't eat it after opening it, you will only spoil a small piece and it is not easy to waste it all. It is the cheese we mentioned. The storage temperature given by the government is refrigerated, and supermarkets and homes in the United States are refrigerated. Contact with friends in France, the country of origin, found that many supermarkets in France sell at room temperature, but its room temperature does not exceed 25 degrees. Refrigeration is definitely better and tastes better. If it is opened, it must be refrigerated. Add some when cooking, and take it out as a snack in a short time. It is convenient to cut into pieces and eat directly. The tastes and characteristics of the three colors are slightly different, so choose according to your own needs.