To the baby to add supplemental food, in addition to diluted vegetable soup or fruit juice, with the baby rice flour to modulate the rice flour paste is the best choice, because at this time the baby's taste system is gradually developing mature, salivary amylase can also begin to digest starchy food
Then why should we start from the rice flour to add supplemental food?
Rice flour is the first solid food that babies eat, mixed feeding or artificial feeding babies from 4 to 6 months, can be eaten until the baby is 1 year old.
Choose iron fortified rice flour:
Iron fortified rice flour:
Method of adding rice flour:
It is best to use a bottle to add rice flour to the baby's diet.
Slowly increase the consistency of the rice flour: The initial modulation of the rice flour should be thin, the baby to adapt to the gradual increase in consistency
Slowly increase the amount of rice flour: The initial modulation of the rice flour should be thin, the baby to adapt to the gradual increase of consistency
Slowly Nutritional "fear" of high temperature, if the boiling water brewing rice flour, easy to cause nutritional loss; but if the water temperature is too low, it is difficult to completely dissolve the rice flour, the baby ate lumps of rice flour will be easy to indigestion. Generally speaking, the water temperature between 60℃-70℃ is more suitable for mixing rice powder
Method of mixing rice powder: Pour warm water into the rice powder, gently stir with a spoon while pouring, so that the rice powder is fully mixed with the water, don't forget to leave it for 30 seconds after pouring to let the rice powder fully absorb the water, and then stir; stirring in one direction if there is any lumpy particles, you can stir while stirring.
Mixing rice flour with breast milk or formula: It is recommended to mix with breast milk or formula because breast milk or formula contains high quality proteins, and mixing them together will make the nutrients richer and healthier for your baby, and it is better for your baby to mix the rice flour with breast milk or formula. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have the right amount of money to pay for the work you are doing.
Don't add sugar, chocolate and other sweets to the rice flour: This will affect the baby's sense of taste, and is likely to cause the baby to form picky eating habits later on. 2007.10.
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