How old is the baby to eat chocolate?
Chocolate has always been considered as a highly nutritious food. As we all know, too young children eat too much chocolate, which not only can't supplement nutrition, but will do unnecessary harm to their health.
Under normal circumstances, a three-year-old baby can eat chocolate, but it is not advisable to eat more. Children under three can't eat chocolate.
The harm of baby eating chocolate.
1. Hazard: uncoordinated nutritional structure
Chocolate is a high-calorie food, but its fat content is high. Protein, inorganic salts and vitamins needed for baby's growth and development are all low in chocolate. This ratio does not meet the nutritional needs of the baby's growth and development, resulting in the baby being unable to obtain all kinds of nutrients needed for growth and development.
2. Feel full.
Chocolate contains a lot of fat and stays in the stomach for a long time, so it is not easy to be digested and absorbed by the baby. After eating, the baby does not want to eat. The special taste of chocolate will reduce the taste sensitivity, and the baby will feel tasteless when eating ordinary food, causing loss of appetite.
3. Hazard: Affect appetite.
Chocolate is an attractive food for babies. If the baby eats too much chocolate before meals, it will feel full, reduce hunger and cause anorexia. When it's time to eat, he will lose his appetite and can't eat any good food. But after dinner time, he will feel hungry again, thus disrupting his normal life and good eating habits.
4. Harm: affecting digestion and absorption.
Cellulose in food can stimulate the normal peristalsis of gastrointestinal tract, while chocolate does not contain cellulose. Chocolate contains a lot of fat, but it does not contain cellulose that can stimulate the normal peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, thus affecting the digestion and absorption function of the gastrointestinal tract.
5: Induce abdominal pain.
Eating too much chocolate is easy to produce a lot of gas in gastrointestinal acid reflux, which is easy to induce baby colic and increase intestinal gas to cause abdominal pain.