Lettuce (1) nutritional value: lettuce is rich in vitamin C, can enhance the baby's immunity. Lettuce contains calcium, iron, copper and other minerals, of which calcium is the main substance that affects the development of baby bones and teeth, but also to prevent rickets; iron and copper can promote the synthesis of hemoglobin, stimulate the development of red blood cells, to prevent the baby's loss of appetite, anemia; lettuce is alkaline food and grains and meat and other acidic food neutralization, with the adjustment of the role of the acid-base balance of body fluids. Lettuce is rich in dietary fiber, can stimulate gastric secretion and intestinal peristalsis to increase the contact area of food and digestive juices, help baby digestion and absorption, promote the discharge of metabolic waste and prevent constipation. (2) Selection: should pick the color green, large, short stems of tender lettuce. (3) Precautions: Soak the lettuce in water for 20 to 30 minutes before rinsing repeatedly with water. Because the alkaloids in the rice water have a good dissolving effect on pesticides and other harmful substances, so the lettuce can be soaked in rice water for 10 minutes after pouring off the leaching liquid, and then rinse repeatedly with flowing water. View original post>>