Infants and young children grow very quickly before the age of 3, normal infants and young children 5 months after birth, rapid weight growth, 1 year old weight doubled. 4-6 months later, the infant's body stores of iron is gradually consumed. If only breastfeeding with low iron content will lead to iron deficiency anemia. Want to give your baby iron supplement, you can give your baby to eat what complementary food?

1, broccoli sweet potato porridge

suitable for babies over 7 months. Ingredients: 60 grams of white rice, 600 milliliters of water, broccoli 8 small, sweet potato 1 small. Practice: (1) Wash the broccoli, pick it into small pieces, blanch it in boiling water, then put it into a bowl to cool. (2) Stir broccoli into chopped vegetables. (3) Boil the sweet potato, peel it, cut it into small pieces and press it into sweet potato paste. (4)Wash the white rice, soak it in water for about 1 hour, then put it into a pot, add water and boil it with high heat, then turn to low heat and continue to cook it for 20 minutes, keep stirring with a spoon while cooking, cook it into a porridge, add the broccoli paste into the porridge and cook it for another 2-3 minutes, stirring gently. (5) Add sweet potato paste and cook for 1 minute. (6)Stir well and put into a bowl.

2, chicken liver porridge

Main nutrients: iron, protein and lecithin. Ingredients: 30 grams of rice, 25 grams of chicken liver, green onion. Practice: chicken liver washed, boiled with water and chopped; rice washed, soaked for 30 minutes. Put the rice in a pot, add water to cook porridge, add chicken liver powder and scallions, cook a little. Efficacy: chicken liver porridge is rich in iron, protein, lecithin and trace elements, which is conducive to the baby's intellectual development and physical development. Chicken liver is rich in iron and is the most commonly used iron supplement food. It can regulate and improve the physiological function of the hematopoietic system of anemic babies and alleviate the symptoms of anemia in babies.

3, a variety of lean meat: although the iron content of lean meat is not too high, but the utilization rate of iron and pig liver is about the same, and easy to buy and process, the child also like. Egg yolk: every 100 grams of egg yolk contains 7 mg of iron. Although the absorption rate of iron is only 3%, but the egg raw materials are easy to get, easy to eat and store, but also rich in other nutrients, so it is still a good supplement for infants and young children to supplement iron. Soybean and its products: Many nutritionists have mentioned the importance and status of soybean in the nutrition of Chinese people and children. Every 100 grams of soybeans and soybean flour contains 11 mg of iron, the human body absorption rate of 7%, much higher than rice and flour.