Every parent wants their child to grow up healthy and happy, but in the process of growing up, the child's food, clothing, housing and transportation, parents will pay great attention to, especially in the diet, is more careful, after all, there is a saying called "disease enters by the mouth".

The spleen and stomach is the main source of life, if you eat well, the spleen and stomach damage, their health will be affected. And for children still in the development stage, there are 4 kinds of condiments than salt and sugar also hurt the spleen and stomach, if eaten every day, the head may be shorter than the same age.

How old can children be when it comes to eating condiments?

In the daily diet, condiments are one of the indispensable elements of many families, and even used in three meals a day, but for children, adding condiments also need to be based on the age of the child to choose.

As children get older, parents can try to add flavor to their children's complementary foods, adjusting them appropriately for nutritional adequacy.

After a child reaches 6 months of age, complementary foods can be added so that the child can replenish his or her body with energy, protein, and a variety of nutrients.

When the child reaches the age of 1 year, his kidneys and digestive system will gradually improve, and some salt or sugar can be added to the main food. Of course, at this age, it's best to limit salt intake to about 1g per day, with a maximum of 2g per day, while sugar intake should be limited to 10g per day, not too much.

In short, salt should be eaten less, because the child's body organ development is still not sound, too early in the complementary food to add salt, will aggravate the child's digestive and metabolic burdens; and sugar is more harmful, not only easy to cause cavities, obesity and other problems, eat too much sugar will affect the absorption of vitamins and calcium, which will be more susceptible to get nearsightedness and grow taller.

There are four kinds of spices than salt and sugar also hurt the spleen and stomach

Many parents see their children do not love to eat, they will add a lot of spices in the staple food, so that children eat more, but in this way, the child's spleen and stomach may be damaged.

(1), wine

Many parents in the cooking dishes, often put some wine to taste, especially when doing some meat dishes, can go to the fishy taste, and the child's appetite will become better.

But, the market contains alcohol, if the younger children eat for a long time, not only will affect the child's spleen and stomach function, leading to their own kidneys are overburdened, resulting in the production of food and other problems, but also may harm the child's liver, the negative impact on their own health.

So, before the age of 2, parents should keep the wine away from the children's complementary food, and after the age of 2, if the children's food contains wine, you can heat it for a while, and wait until the wine has become a sweet flavor, and then give it to the children to eat.

(2) Soy sauce and vinegar

As a parent, you should cultivate a healthy taste in your child's mouth. When your child's baby is 1 year old, you should make sure to avoid adding salt and soy sauce as much as possible when making complementary foods, and to allow your child to taste more of the original flavors of the food, which will help cultivate his or her lighter taste. If you give your child salt and soy sauce too early or too much, then the sodium content in your body may exceed the limit, which is not conducive to your own health.

When your child reaches 1 year of age, parents can add soy sauce and vinegar to staple foods in small amounts, preferably before turning off the heat and removing them from the pan.

When it comes to choosing soy sauce and vinegar, for the sake of your child's health, parents should choose baby soy sauce and vinegar made from pure grains that your child can eat. Baby soy sauce is not very different from ordinary soy sauce, but its concentration is lighter than ordinary soy sauce, suitable for younger children to eat; and pure grain brewing vinegar, its bottle has the word "brewing", or ingredients in the word "sorghum", this kind of condiment on the The child's development is more favorable.

3, vegetable oil

After the age of 6 months, parents can add supplemental food to the child, so that the child intake of a more comprehensive nutrition, but if you start to add vegetable oil at this time, may make the child's spleen, stomach, and cardiovascular burden increased, but also cause other problems.

When the child reaches 10 months of age, parents can add a small amount of vegetable oil to the child's diet, which can be beneficial to his or her growth and development.

However, in order to ensure that the child's nutritional balance, parents must remember to add a small amount of vegetable oil, and from time to time to change the type of vegetable oil, camellia oil, corn oil, olive oil and so on, alternating, and the best not to exceed 10g per day, and then finally choose to stew, steaming and other cooking methods, is more conducive to the child's health.

(4), chicken essence or monosodium glutamate (MSG)

Some parents in the cooking dishes, like to add chicken essence, MSG and other seasonings, that can be "fresh", the children also love to eat, but in fact, take a closer look at the ingredient list, it will be found that these two seasonings contain a small number of chemical ingredients. The chemical composition, intake of too much, or improper use, but harmful to the body.

Before the child is 2 years old, its body organs are not fully developed, if long-term consumption of chicken and MSG, may increase the burden on the kidneys, damage the spleen and stomach, hinder the child's height development. Therefore, for the sake of your child's health, you should still try to consume as little chicken essence and MSG as possible.

And after the age of 2, although the child can properly intake of these kinds of condiments, but each time should be controlled within 1-2g, so as not to affect the child's growth and development.

"Children's seasoning" is always suitable for children?

The Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents state that infants and children aged 1-3 years need a daily intake of 700mg of sodium, which they can get from their daily diets, such as milk, meat, fish, and vegetables, as long as the children eat regularly, they can get enough nutrients from food.

But if parents use all kinds of condiments in their children's diets, it is easy to stimulate the children's sense of taste too early, and may even cause damage to the spleen and stomach, affecting height development.

The so-called "children's seasonings" on the market are not necessarily suitable for children. For example, the sodium content of regular soy sauce is generally 900-1200mg/15ml, some reduced-salt soy sauce, the sodium content of which is generally 500-900mg/15ml. children's soy sauce" sodium content is actually mostly in this range, and not better than the adult soy sauce to go.

So, it's best to add condiments to your child's diet as late as possible, and the less you add, the better, and strictly control your intake of condiments so that your child's head grows faster and taller