Most baby rice noodles are added with iron on the basis of ordinary rice noodles, because the iron stored in the baby's body has been basically consumed and needs to be supplemented from food. Baby rice noodles can be made into various thin consistency, which can meet the different needs of babies for complementary food, and rice noodles are easy to digest, which is very suitable for babies whose digestive function is not fully developed. Porridge is a semi-liquid food formed after rice has been boiled for a long time. The biggest difference from baby rice noodles is that the iron content in porridge is very small, so it can't supplement iron for the baby, and the energy that porridge can provide to the body is very low, far lower than that provided by baby rice noodles, which can't meet the needs of baby's growth and development.

Compared with porridge, baby rice flour can provide more comprehensive nutrition and contains many vitamins and minerals that babies need for growth. However, there are few nutrients in the boiled porridge. Because the baby's digestive system is not fully developed, it needs to get more energy from less food. Baby rice noodles are undoubtedly a better choice than porridge.

if you simply understand it literally, baby rice flour seems to be "rice ground flour", but in fact, baby rice flour is a supplementary food for infants made from rice as the main raw material, and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins are added. Compared with home-made rice flour or boiled rice porridge, the nutritional value of baby rice flour is obviously higher, which can better meet the nutritional needs of baby's growth and development. Therefore, we advocate that, when economic conditions permit, baby rice flour should be added as the first choice for complementary food instead of home-made rice flour or rice porridge.

Which is better, rice flour or porridge?

Baby rice flour is low in protein content and poor in quality, which can't meet the needs of the baby's growth in protein. Therefore, when eating rice flour, it should be accompanied by some meat food, but this is not in line with our eating habits, which may be difficult for the baby to accept, so it is not necessary to choose one from rice flour and porridge, so we might as well let rice paste and rice porridge take turns to eat. However, it needs to be explained to you that both baby rice noodles and rice porridge are transitional foods for babies to contact with complementary foods after weaning. After the baby's chewing ability and digestive ability are developed, the baby should be gradually exposed to semi-solid or solid foods, instead of eating liquid foods all the time, so as to exercise the baby's chewing ability and swallowing ability.

In terms of protein and carbohydrate content, there is no obvious difference between baby rice flour and ordinary rice, but the contents of various vitamins (especially vitamins A and D) and minerals (especially calcium, iron and zinc) are obviously higher than ordinary rice. Therefore, the nutritional value of baby rice flour is much higher than that of ordinary rice (porridge or other), which is more in line with the nutritional needs of babies. In other words, ordinary rice porridge can't replace baby rice noodles.