First of all, make full preparations before making complementary food.
1, mom must cut her nails and wash her hands repeatedly with soap before cooking complementary food; When suffering from infectious diseases or hand inflammation, do not make complementary food for your baby.
2. All kinds of tools for making and holding food should be cleaned in advance and scalded with boiling water.
3. Filtration gauze should be boiled and disinfected before use; Fruits and vegetables should be washed repeatedly, and it is recommended to scald them with boiling water, so as to ensure that the baby's food will not be contaminated by bacteria.
4, prepare a set of special tools for the baby, such as juicer (juicing, dry powder, juicing and other functions are the best), grinder, clean gauze and so on. This is more convenient to use, and secondly, it can avoid cross-infection caused by mixing with adult tableware.
Then, grasp the key details in the cooking process.
1, pay attention to adjust the shape and hardness of food according to the baby's digestive ability. At first, food was made into soup and mud paste, and then gradually changed into semi-solid, broken and small solid food.
2. Don't use copper or aluminum utensils to cook food for your baby, because copper will react with vitamin C in some foods and destroy the effect of vitamin C, while aluminum will dissolve in food in an acidic environment, which is not good for your baby's health.
3. Steamed food with skin should be steamed with skin first, and then peeled after steaming; Cooking vegetables with steam, pressure or anhydrous water should minimize the contact between vegetables and light, air and water; It is best not to add baking soda when making complementary food for your baby, otherwise it will easily lead to the loss of vitamins and minerals; In addition, we should also pay attention to controlling the temperature of food. It is best not to put the food in the microwave oven to heat it in high temperature mode, so as not to destroy the nutrients in the food.
Furthermore, the nutrient composition is reasonable.
Different types of food contain different nutrients, and these different nutrients will complement, enhance or hinder each other when they are matched. If the mother can notice the nutritional differences in food and find its "best partner" for each ingredient, she can improve the overall nutritional value of food and add points to the baby's complementary food.
Mixed feeding or artificial feeding baby needs to wait for 6 months. When the baby's gastrointestinal development is relatively perfect, complementary food will be added. Mothers can start by adding rice noodles that are least likely to cause allergies to their babies. First, choose pure or single taste rice flour, then choose milk and calcium, fruits and vegetables, meat and fish and whole grain rice flour for the baby. When selecting rice noodles, not only the quality of rice noodles with green rice as raw material is more guaranteed, but also it is suggested to trace the origin to ensure that it is 100% green rice from green base, which is safer with "double green guarantee". However, at present, there are not many baby rice noodles on the market that can achieve "double green protection" and green rice 100% traceability. Mother may wish to give priority to Heinz brand rice noodles with "double green guarantee" as the baby's first complementary food.