There are many benefits to babies eating vegetables. How to make babies fall in love with vegetables

What are the benefits of babies eating more vegetables? Vegetables can provide a variety of nutrients for children's growth and development. In addition to being rich in various vitamins and minerals, they also contain small amounts of protein, fat and sugar, which play an important role in ensuring children's health and normal growth and development.

The benefits of eating vegetables for babies

Vegetables are an important source of essential vitamins and minerals for the human body. Only vegetables and fruits in food contain vitamin C and carotene, which are provitamins. Vitamin B1, B2, niacin, vitamin P, etc. Vitamin C can prevent and treat scurvy, especially green leafy vegetables; vitamin A can maintain vision and prevent dry eye disease and night blindness.

Vegetables contain calcium, iron, copper and other minerals. Calcium is the main substance for the development of baby's bones and teeth, and can also prevent and treat rickets; iron and copper can promote the synthesis of hemoglobin, stimulate the development of red blood cells, and prevent Baby's loss of appetite, anemia, promote growth and development; minerals can make vegetables become alkaline foods, neutralize acidic foods such as grains and meat, and have the effect of adjusting the acid-base balance of body fluids.

Vegetables are rich in fiber, which can stimulate gastric juice secretion and intestinal peristalsis, increase the contact area between food and digestive juice, help the body digest and absorb food, promote the discharge of metabolic waste, and prevent constipation.

Some vegetables contain volatile aromatic oils with special flavors, such as ginger, onions, garlic, etc., which have spicy aromas. This unique aroma stimulates appetite and can prevent and treat certain diseases.

How to make your baby fall in love with vegetables

Let your children get closer to vegetables

For children over 3 years old and want them to eat more vegetables, you might as well try Let them see and interact with vegetables more. You can take them to the vegetable market or the vegetable aisle in the supermarket and give them the opportunity to select vegetables by hand. After you buy the vegetables home, you can let your children help wash the vegetables, peel them, put them on the plate, etc. You can also let them see how the vegetables are cooked and let them smell the cooking smell in the kitchen. TCM parenting professionals say that through these methods, babies can become more familiar with vegetables, thereby reducing their resistance to vegetables, and can also cultivate their sense of ownership and hands-on ability.

The "one kind at a time" principle

Traditional Chinese medicine professionals suggest that it is best not to have all the vegetables on the table that are unfamiliar to your baby, or that they do not like to eat. Because in this case, they will probably not be willing to eat anything at this meal, and all your hard work will be in vain. It is best to add only one vegetable to a meal that your baby may reject. It is best not to make your baby resist other vegetables, but to keep at least one vegetable that they like to eat.

The power of role models

When babies do not accept certain vegetables, sometimes it is due to the lack of a role model. If there is a child in your life who is about the same age as your baby and he likes to eat vegetables, then he is the best role model. Herd mentality is widespread among children. If you have the opportunity to let a child who loves vegetables eat with your child, you may be able to correct your child's bad habit of partial eclipse to a certain extent. If there is no such opportunity, parents need to personally go into battle. Before coaxing their children to eat a certain vegetable, parents take a bite and make a delicious expression. This trick still works for children.

Don’t label your child a picky eater

There is a classic example in children’s educational psychology: a student occasionally does poorly in an exam, and if the teacher treats him as a poor student, Gradually, this student really became a poor student. Traditional Chinese medicine professionals remind parents that this phenomenon also occurs when cultivating babies' eating habits. Parents must not label their children as picky eaters. Generally speaking, babies will have several unpleasant experiences before accepting a certain food. However, children's tastes are changeable. Maybe one day, they will feel that the food they used to hate suddenly becomes delicious. Parents Be sure to give plenty of patience.

Use vegetables as snacks

If your child is hungry and vegetables are within easy reach, they may be more likely to try them. This is according to research by TCM parenting professionals conclusion. Parents can prepare some fresh, clean, raw vegetables, such as carrot sticks, cucumber sticks, etc., and place them where children can see them. When they're tired and looking for something to eat, they're more likely to try a type of vegetable they didn't like before.