However, babies are different from adults after all. If you give your baby yogurt regardless of age and variety, it is likely to cause a series of problems that affect your baby's health.
Therefore, before giving your baby yogurt, parents must know how old you can drink yogurt and what kind of yogurt is appropriate, so that your baby can drink yogurt with confidence.
It is really good for babies to drink yogurt, but not all babies of any age can drink it.
The pediatrician's advice to parents is that it is more appropriate for the baby 1 year-old to drink yogurt.
/kloc-Babies under 0/year old are not suitable for drinking yogurt.
Because the content of protein in yogurt is much higher than that of protein in breast milk and formula milk powder, and the baby's indigestion is mainly casein.
The mineral content in yogurt is also high, and the proportion of calcium and phosphorus in yogurt is not suitable for babies.
If you give your baby yogurt too early, it will undoubtedly increase the burden on your baby's kidneys and easily lead to discomfort such as vomiting or diarrhea.
1 year-old infants have incomplete gastric mucosal barrier, incomplete development of gastrointestinal system and low activity of gastric acid and pepsin.
Because the PH value of yogurt is relatively low, it will "corrode" the baby's delicate gastrointestinal mucosa after entering the baby's gastrointestinal tract, thus affecting the baby's digestion and absorption function.
Moreover, the microbial flora of the baby's gastrointestinal tract is also in the stage of growth and change, and it is still unstable.
If you drink yogurt, it is likely to cause excessive intake of Lactobacillus acidophilus, which will lead to imbalance of the original microbial flora in the baby's intestine and eventually lead to intestinal diseases.
So/kloc-don't give him yogurt for babies under 0.
/kloc-after 0/year, the baby's digestive system is relatively perfect, and the gastrointestinal tract can slowly accept more food. It would be better for parents to give it to their children.
How to choose the right yogurt for your baby?
Parents can buy yogurt for their baby 1 year-old or older.
Then, there are all kinds of yogurt in the supermarket. What yogurt is suitable for baby to drink?
1. Try to choose yogurt whose raw milk ranks first in the ingredient list.
The ingredients list of food is arranged according to the content of raw materials from high to low.
When choosing yogurt for your baby, parents should pay attention to choosing yogurt with raw milk as the first ingredient list.
It also depends on the content of food additives, even if the content is within the standard range stipulated by the state, it will not cause any harm to the human body.
But for the baby, it is better to choose yogurt with less additives as far as possible.
The fewer additives, the better, because some additives are likely to affect the baby's absorption of other nutrients.
Try to choose the original yogurt that only contains raw milk and XX bacteria in the ingredient list, which is the healthiest for your baby.
Although adults may find this yogurt unpalatable, the baby's taste is not fully developed.
Their taste is not very sensitive, and their acceptance of taste will be much higher than that of adults.
Parents can't judge whether it is good or not according to their own tastes, and then add honey or sugar to their baby's yogurt without authorization. If the baby doesn't eat honey well, it's easy to get Botox.
If the baby can't accept this original yogurt, mom and dad can add some natural fruits to the yogurt to add some flavor.
Be careful not to add too much, because the fruit contains too much sugar, so as not to give the baby too much polysaccharide.
Step 2 look at the food category
Usually the food label will indicate the food category, and the essence of food can be seen by looking at the food category.
If the food category is labeled as "flavored milk" or "flavored milk", it can be explained that the food is a dairy product with raw materials such as sugar added to milk.
However, if you see that the food category is labeled as "beverage", it means that this food is a beverage with raw materials such as sugar added to water.
Yogurt, fermented milk and flavored fermented milk sold in supermarkets belong to yogurt.
There are only two kinds of bacteria in yogurt, Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus. On this basis, other bacteria are fermented milk, and there is little difference in nutritional components between them.
If cereal, fruit, juice, vegetables and other ingredients, fermenting bacteria, sugar, thickener and so on are added to yogurt, it is flavor fermented milk.
It is best to choose plain yogurt for your baby. Too complicated taste will affect children's taste development.
The "yogurt drinks" and "lactic acid bacteria drinks" sold in supermarkets are not yogurt.
These are basically blended with sugar, essence and food additives. In the water. They belong to drinks, with little milk content, and are not suitable for babies to drink.
Step 3 look at the nutrients
See if the protein content in yogurt is more than or equal to 2.3%, and it will be considered if it exceeds 2.3%.
Look at the carbohydrate content inside, it is best to choose yogurt with carbohydrate content below 12%.
If the content exceeds 12%, it means that the sugar content of yogurt is a little high, which is easy for the baby to develop a bad habit of favoring sweets and is not suitable for the baby to drink.
In addition, it is best to choose yogurt with a fat content of no more than 3%.
Finally, Mama Bean would like to remind parents that many drinks marked "nutrition", "children" and "health care" on the market are actually not particularly healthy.
It is best not to give it to children, and don't be confused by the label.
And those yogurts that are not labeled as "children" are not necessarily not suitable for babies.
Therefore, parents should learn to look at the nutrition label and ingredient list of food and choose healthy yogurt suitable for their baby.