Most of the 2-year-old babies can eat independently, but sometimes they may still need the help of their parents, they do not know how to express what they want to eat, but they will also refuse some food that they do not like, so we need to prepare for the baby they love to eat, but also nutritious food.
2-year-old baby diet nutrition, should pay attention to do these things.
1, do three meals and two points every day.
To ensure that three meals a day and two additional meals in the afternoon afternoon, because the child's stomach is easy to limited, and the child's activity, fast consumption, metabolism is also fast, so between the two meals to be added to the meal, the additional meals can be milk or yogurt, fruits, snacks with low sugar content, or porridge, noodles and so on.
2, the diet should be nutritious and balanced.
The child's daily food should include four categories, one is dairy, including milk, yogurt, cheese and other dairy products; the second is fish, poultry, livestock and other meat and eggs; the third is fresh fruits and vegetables; the fourth is grains and potatoes. Try to have all four types of food, and increase the variety of food, to ensure that there are no less than 12 types of food per day, and no less than 25 types of food per week, and the more types of food there are, the more balanced the nutrition will be.
Drinking 400-500 milliliters of milk a day ensures calcium intake, but don't drink too much milk, not more than 960 milliliters a day. Excessive drinking of milk affects the intake of other foods, and may lead to iron deficiency.
Besides drinking milk, you should also pay attention to let the child drink more water every day, and drink 600-800 milliliters of plain water every day.
3, food cooking should be healthy, more steaming, less frying and grilling, less seasoning.
Steaming can reduce the loss of food nutrients, reduce the production of harmful substances, so the child to eat the food to try to eat as little as possible or do not eat fried and barbecue food. Food cooking should reduce the addition of salt and other seasonings, so that the child to maintain a light taste, conducive to the formation of healthy eating habits.
4, lack of sun exposure to supplement vitamin D.
In order to promote the absorption of calcium, you need to ensure that the intake of adequate vitamin D, if less sun exposure, the daily diet does not guarantee 400 international units of vitamin, you need to use supplements to supplement vitamin D, the American Academy of Pediatrics pointed out that the 2-year-old child intake of 400 international units of vitamin D per day, for the children.
5. Don't give your child foods that could cause danger.
2-year-old children, chewing ability is limited, for nuts and fiber coarse food can not be completely chewed, and at the same time eat something will eat a big mouth, so do not give the child to eat the whole nut, with the nucleus of the food to be removed from the nucleus of the food to eat, for jelly, marshmallows, jam and other food to be eaten under the supervision of the parents, to avoid choking the child.