Cleaning skills
1. It is best to wash vegetables with cold water to avoid soaking for a long time.
2. The cleaning time should be as short as possible to avoid hard friction.
3. When kimchi is used, it is best to use tap water-turn off the tap and let the water flow into the pot soaked in vegetables. The water in the basin is constantly updated with the arrival of fresh water, which can effectively remove pesticides and avoid nutrient loss. Similarly, the soaking time should not be too long, just 10- 15 minutes.
4. Wash before cutting, and cut the ingredients as thin as possible, which can reduce the cooking time.
knack for cooking
1. Cut and cook now, fry and eat now. Sometimes for convenience, we will cut all the ingredients and put them in a fresh-keeping box for later use. However, with the extension of storage time, nutrients are constantly losing. Vegetables, in particular, are rich in water-soluble B vitamins, vitamin C and inorganic salts, which will be destroyed and lost if they are slightly improper.
2. When cooking pasta, try to use steaming, boiling and branding as complementary food instead of frying.
Don't waste the soup of rice porridge, you can also give it to your baby, because after boiling, many nutrients have been integrated into the rice soup.
When making stuffing, blanch the whole vegetable first, then chop and mix the stuffing. Cooked vegetables should not be left for a long time to avoid the formation of nitrite.
5. You can cut the ingredients smaller, which can speed up the ripening of food and reduce the loss of nutrients. If you add too much water when cooking, a lot of vitamins will be dissolved in water, and vitamins will also be lost.
6. Reduce rice washing times and soaking time to avoid the loss of water-soluble vitamins and inorganic salts in rice and noodles; When cooking porridge or pasta, try not to put alkali, which will destroy the absorption of vitamins, protein and minerals. When cooking porridge, add vegetables when the porridge is almost cooked.
7. Try to make acidic food with iron pan, which can improve the absorption rate of active iron.
8. You can add a few drops of vinegar when making bone soup, which is more conducive to the absorption of calcium.
9. The baby's chewing ability is still relatively weak. When making meat complementary food, you can make it thinner to make the nutrition easier to absorb.
What can complementary food do to retain nutrition?
First, how to buy
1, about how to buy complementary food ingredients, we must first grasp the most critical point-freshness. Whether it is vegetables or meat, fresh ingredients retain more nutrients.
2. Try to buy less finished complementary food, which is definitely not as fresh as the existing complementary food. Some mothers will ask, what about rice noodles? In fact, this point should not be too entangled. The finished rice flour adds a lot of nutrients and tastes more delicate. Finished complementary food is not inedible, but try to make fresh complementary food for your baby when you have energy.
Second, how to do it?
garden stuff
1, wash in cold water before cutting, and don't soak for too long.
2. Vegetables that need to be blanched should be blanched first and then chopped to reduce the loss of vitamins and minerals.
3, cut and stir-fry now, eat now, and easily cooked vegetables can be quickly fried to reduce the destruction of nutrients.
4. Don't leave the ingredients and prepared complementary food for too long.
Edible meat
1. Meat is rich in vitamins, protein and minerals. When the baby is about 7-8 months old, the development of pepsin and gastrointestinal flora is more perfect, and meat complementary food can be added. But when meat is first added, it must be carefully processed, which is more conducive to absorption.
Although meat is nutritious, don't just feed it all the time. Meat is an acidic food. It is best to eat with alkaline foods such as vegetables to maintain the acid-base balance in the body.
3, meat is more difficult to digest than vegetables and fruits, so it must be cooked when making, and it is best to use muddy complementary food when adding it initially. Cooking is also the main method, without seasoning.
starch
1, reducing rice washing times and soaking time.
2. Adding alkali to porridge can increase the viscosity, but it will destroy vitamins.
3. Cooking methods are mainly cooking, reducing fried food.