There are many nutritious and healthy foods,
but there is also a lot of knowledge in them.
Parents often ask me,
Which foods are best for babies?
Today, Sister Bin made a list for everyone.
She chose 1 kinds of foods that are most suitable for babies from June to December.
Come and see how many your children have eaten!
cereals are the main source of carbohydrate and energy. It is the basis of a balanced diet to mix cereals. Various cooking methods can make cereals into staple foods with different tastes and flavors, which can enrich the choice of cereals and easily realize the cereal-based dietary pattern. From the beginning of children's complementary food, food matching must abide by this principle, and sufficient energy is guaranteed, which is also the basis for baby's long flesh.
It is suggested that whole grains and miscellaneous beans should be used as the staple food in adult's healthy diet, and potatoes should be added to provide more nutrients such as B vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, healthy phytochemicals and stabilize blood sugar.
for children, it is suggested that coarse grains and potatoes should not account for more than one-fifth of the staple food. Because children's digestive system function is not perfect, especially those who have just added complementary food need to gradually adapt to various foods, so it is important to digest food well. In addition, excessive intake of dietary fiber will also affect the absorption of minerals.
6-12 months baby's cereal intake: 2-75g/day
Recommended food 1: Formula rice flour
At this stage, the baby's nutritional needs, the first choice is iron-rich food. Foods with high iron content and high absorption rate include animal blood products, animal livers, beef, etc. However, the baby has just started to add complementary food, and the amount of meat eaten is relatively small. In addition, the traditional diet of China people is that plant food accounts for a high proportion, and adding meat first does not conform to our diet structure. If there is an elderly family, it is estimated that family conflicts will also be aroused.
Therefore, the formula rice flour fortified with iron is usually chosen as the first complementary food for babies. At present, when making some rice noodles, some starch is converted into dextrin and glucose through starch hydrolysis process, which is not only easy to digest, but also has a natural sweetness without adding sugar, and the baby's acceptance will be higher.
Recommended food 2: Noodles
Noodles are the favorite staple food of many children. The noodles eaten by babies are short and rotten. You can cut the noodles after cooking or add them from the grain surface. There are also many daily noodle practices, such as noodle soup, mixed noodles, noodle cakes, etc., which my mother can make easily. But when buying noodles for your baby, you should choose noodles without salt!
In addition, some mothers think that "the baby noodles are written with tomato and egg noodles or cod noodles, which are mixed with vegetables and meat, so there is no need to add extra vegetables and meat when making them". This idea is wrong. Even if vegetable powder or meat powder is added to noodles, the amount is very limited, and after industrial processing, nutrition and taste are lost. Therefore, vegetables, meat and eggs should be cooked normally.
Fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and low in energy, which plays an important role in meeting the needs of human micronutrients, maintaining the normal function of human intestine and reducing the risk of chronic diseases. Fruits and vegetables also contain various plant compounds, organic acids and aromatic substances, which can stimulate appetite, help digestion and promote human health.
In order to ensure adequate intake of fruits and vegetables every day, we should pay attention to the following points:
There are two problems to be paid attention to
1. Fruit juice cannot replace fruit
Fruit loses a lot of cellulose, some vitamins and minerals in the process of squeezing into juice, and nutrients are easily oxidized because of their large exposure area in the air. And the juice tastes good, and it is easy for babies to refuse boiled water when they are used to drinking juice. In addition, the juice does not need to be chewed, and the baby's chewing ability cannot be exercised; At the same time, sugar and other ingredients are concentrated, so the baby can drink a lot easily, which is easy to cause obesity and dental caries in children. Therefore, it is not recommended to give the baby juice and other sweet drinks regularly.
2. Fruits can't replace vegetables
There are far more varieties of vegetables than fruits, and the contents of vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber and phytochemicals in most vegetables (especially dark vegetables) are higher than those in fruits, such as folic acid, pigments, etc., and their nutritional value can not be ignored. In order to avoid food safety problems and keep more nutrition of vegetables, it is suggested that vegetables be blanched or steamed, mashed, cut into pieces or segments, and made into corresponding shapes according to the baby's chewing ability for baby to eat.
the intake of fruits and vegetables for babies aged 6-12 months: 25-1g/day each
Recommended food 3: Broccoli
Broccoli belongs to cruciferous vegetables, and is rich in carotenoids, which can be converted into vitamin A in the body, which is good for baby's eye development.
recommended food 4: rape/spinach
Dark leafy vegetables contain a lot of nutrients and healthy ingredients such as chlorophyll, vitamin C, folic acid, vitamin B2, vitamin K, magnesium, calcium and lutein.
Recommended food 5: Pear
Pear belongs to Rosaceae, which is good for preventing lung cancer. Potassium content is also relatively high, and it also contains polyphenols such as flavonoids and lignans, and the most important thing is that it is rich in dietary fiber. A medium-sized pear can provide 6 grams of dietary fiber. Most fruits are rich in pectin, which is a soluble dietary fiber and has little stimulation to the intestine. However, the content of insoluble dietary fiber in pears is relatively high, and the mouth contains "stone cells" like small particles. In addition, the pear tastes sweet, not only because of the high proportion of fructose (about 4.5% fructose), but also because it is rich in sorbitol.
fructose and sugar alcohol have fewer absorption paths in the intestine, while unabsorbed fructose and sugar alcohol will enter the large intestine through the small intestine. Because these two components have super hydrophilic properties, they can "bind" a large number of water molecules, increase the osmotic pressure of intestinal contents and stimulate intestinal movement, thus preventing constipation.
This can also explain that the old people often say that pears are "cold and cool" and "moist", which is actually based on science, and the traditional saying is actually a summary of experience.
Fish, poultry, eggs and lean meat are both animal foods, which are rich in high-quality protein, lipids, fat-soluble vitamins, B vitamins and minerals, but they are high in fat and energy, so attention should be paid to controlling the intake.
Recommended food 6: Beef
Beef is not only the source of high-quality protein, but also rich in iron and zinc, which is very suitable for the baby's nutritional needs at this stage.
Recommended food 7: Salmon
Salmon is rich in DHA, and it belongs to the fish with low mercury in marine fish. It is a good food source for baby to supplement DHA, which is helpful for the development of baby's brain and retina.
Recommended food 8: Eggs
Egg yolk is the main concentration of vitamins and minerals in eggs, and it is rich in phospholipids and choline, which is helpful for the baby's brain development.
Soybean, also known as "plant meat", is rich in high-quality protein, unsaturated fatty acids, calcium, potassium and vitamin E. Among them, linoleic acid in unsaturated fatty acids is as high as 5%, and it also contains more phospholipids, which is helpful for baby's brain development. In addition, soybean contains a variety of healthy ingredients, such as soybean isoflavones, phytosterols, soybean saponins and so on.
The soybean intake of 6-12 month-old baby is -5g/day (equivalent to -15g/day of north tofu)
Recommended food 9: North tofu/South tofu
Some phytic acid and dietary fiber are removed during the processing of tofu, thus eliminating the unfavorable factors affecting the absorption of minerals such as iron and zinc. At the same time, adding magnesium chloride or calcium sulfate during processing is beneficial to supplement calcium and is also a good calcium supplement food.
Milk is a kind of natural food with rich nutrition, suitable composition ratio, easy digestion and absorption and high nutritional value. The diet structure of babies under one year old is mainly milk, and it is best to breastfeed. If you can't breastfeed, you need to choose infant formula instead.
intake of breast milk/formula milk for babies aged 6-12 months: 7-5ml/day
Recommended food 1: Sugar-free yogurt
Yogurt is the product of milk fermented by lactic acid bacteria. After milk is fermented into yogurt, lactose and protein in it are decomposed, which makes it easier for human body to digest and absorb, and contains active lactic acid bacteria, which is helpful to promote intestinal health.
after 6 months, you can add yogurt as a complementary food to your baby. It should be noted that yogurt cannot be eaten by heating to avoid the inactivation of probiotics by heating. If you are worried that the yogurt taken out of the refrigerator is too cold, you can leave it at room temperature for a while before giving it to your baby.
The daily consumption of yogurt for babies aged 6-12 months is less than 1ml. The reason why there is an upper limit is to avoid usurping the host's role, because at this stage, the baby's nutritional source is mainly breast milk or formula milk powder, and the role of yogurt is only a supplementary food, and its added amount is not included in the baby's daily milk consumption.
Sister Bin's thoughts:
In addition, parents should keep their eyes open when choosing food for their babies, and don't be easily fooled by advertising. I believe everyone will become a great expert in food selection, and I hope all our children can eat healthy food.
how many kinds of recommended foods did your baby eat?
About the author: Wang Bin, a child nutritionist, is a national second-class public nutritionist and a national senior nutrition lecturer. Be good at combining medicine with modern nutrition knowledge, focus on the field of maternal and child nutrition and health, and teach you how to feed your children scientifically!