What is baby rice noodle?
When the baby is 4-6 months old, it is necessary to scientifically add complementary food in time, and the most important one is baby rice noodles.
Baby rice flour is a supplementary food for infants and young children, which is made of rice as the main raw material, white sugar, vegetables, fruits, eggs, meat and other optional ingredients, and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. With the improvement of modern science and technology, the nutritional elements of most baby rice noodles are becoming more and more comprehensive and rich. For example, in addition to conventional elements such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine and zinc, vitamins A, C, D, E and B, folic acid and pantothenic acid peculiar to breast milk are also added.
Baby rice flour is one of the most important foods in complementary food. In order to keep the baby's nutrition comprehensive and balanced, feeding baby rice flour is usually divided into three stages: 4-24 months, 6-24 months and 8-24 months according to international practice.
How to make baby rice noodles?
How to make baby rice noodles? In fact, different brands of rice noodles have different brewing temperatures and methods. For example, Tefufen organic coarse wheat flour is mixed with water-rice flour-stirring-standing, Yingshi rice flour is mixed with water-rice flour-standing-stirring, and Heinz rice flour is mixed with rice flour-stirring while adding water-standing-stirring. In order to ensure the taste and nutrition of rice noodles, each brand has its own unique blending ratio. Mom can just follow the instructions on the box when making rice noodles. In addition, the amount of rice flour and the amount of water added are best according to the brewing method. Too thick rice noodles not only taste bad, but also are difficult to digest. Too thin rice noodles make the baby full after a few bites, but it is easy to get hungry.
Two Points for Attention in Mixing Rice Noodles
Pay attention not to use mineral water when making rice noodles. In daily life, many people think mineral water is beneficial and use it to cook rice, make soup or make tea. Although mineral water contains a variety of trace elements, it is not suitable for making rice flour or milk powder for babies. There are many minerals in water, which means that the concentration of water is high, so that water is not easy to absorb. Baby's stomach is weak, drinking mineral water will lead to poor absorption.
Do not mix rice flour and milk powder. Rice flour and milk powder have their own water concentration requirements and water temperature requirements. Eating together may increase the baby's gastrointestinal burden and thus affect the absorption effect of nutrients.
How to eat baby rice noodles
The baby's salivary glands are very few in the first three months after birth, and the amylase contained in the salivary glands and the amylase in the digestive tract are also quite few. If you feed the baby rice noodles at this time, it is not easy to digest. Generally speaking, when the baby is 4 months old, you can start adding rice noodles for the baby, from less to more, and add them one by one. There is no specific regulation on how long rice noodles can be eaten. When the baby's teeth grow out and he can eat porridge and noodles, he can stop eating rice noodles.
It is suggested that when adding complementary food, iron-added rice flour should be the first choice, and one spoon of rice flour should be mixed with ten spoons of water at a time, and one spoon should be fed at a time (we usually use enamel spoons for soup). Once a day, after a week, the baby gets used to it and then twice a day.
Baby rice noodles can be added before or after any breastfeeding, that is to say, from the beginning, it is necessary to pay attention to adding complementary food at the same time as milk, and avoid adding it between two milks.
At the beginning of adding rice noodles, we can let the baby eat less, because some children are allergic to rice noodles, so eating less will avoid these problems. At first, add about 5 grams, that is, a small soup spoon, about 2.5 grams per spoon, two spoons per spoon, and make it into paste for the children to eat.
In the process of eating, in the initial stage of adding complementary food, the main purpose of adding complementary food is not to supplement nutrition, but to let the baby learn to eat, let the baby learn to squeeze with his tongue and mouth constantly, and chew and swallow the food with the movement of his tongue and mouth. This is the process of eating.
The practice of baby rice noodles
The method of making baby rice noodles is as follows. Parents personally make complementary food for their babies, which not only ensures safety, but also ensures food hygiene, and also fills in a deep feeling.
Step 1: Prepare rice.
Except glutinous rice (glutinous rice is difficult to digest and not suitable for babies), other rice on the market can be used. Take the rice directly and grind it into powder. There is no need to clean it before grinding. There is a nutrient in the outer layer of rice. It was destroyed after washing.
Step 2: Prepare auxiliary materials.
In addition to rice, we can also add some other accessories to increase the nutrition of rice noodles, such as: walnuts for nourishing the brain, coix seed for tonifying the kidney, yam and endothelium corneum Gigeriae Galli for helping digestion, black beans for enriching blood, and lotus seeds for clearing fire. These can be ground into powder and put in rice flour.
Step 3: stir-fry and grind into powder.
Let's put the prepared rice into the pot, stir-fry for 3 minutes on medium heat, and pour it out; Then put the prepared auxiliary materials into the pot and fry for 3 minutes on medium heat, then turn off the heat. Pour the rice into the pot and stir well. After cooling, take the powder and grind it. Parents should pay attention that the powder of baby rice flour should be ground at least three times, because the more times it is ground, the more delicate it is, and the more beneficial it is for the baby to eat.
Step 4: Save.
After the baby rice noodles are ground, preservation is very important. Because it will become damp if it is not paid attention to, it is difficult to guarantee the quality. So we need to keep it in a sealed jar, and don't cook too much rice noodles at a time.
Step 5: Eating method
When the baby eats rice noodles, parents first take out the right amount of rice noodles and pour them into the pot, then add the right amount of cold water or warm water to melt them (hot water is not allowed). Then cook it with low heat, and stir it repeatedly during the heating process until the rice paste is fragrant. You can give it to your baby! When cooking rice noodles, you can also add some complementary foods such as vegetable juice and meat foam. At this time, you should put less water to cook rice noodles until other complementary foods are added to the rice noodles halfway until cooked.
How to make baby rice noodles by yourself
The easiest way to make homemade rice noodles:
1, soak the rice for more than 2 hours, take it out and put it in the blender.
2. Add any kind of vegetables or fruits into the blender and stir it into a mud lake.
3. Pour into the milk pot and add some water, stir with a spoon while heating, and cook it into a sticky paste.
You can add sweet potatoes, pumpkins, carrots or vegetables according to your baby's taste and stir them together. Older babies can also add meat, etc. Such homemade rice noodles are fresh and nutritious, and the method is simple.
How to buy baby rice noodles
1, try to choose the products of brand enterprises with large scale and good quality of products and services. The product formula design of these enterprises is more scientific and reasonable, the control of raw materials is stricter, and the quality is guaranteed.
2. See if the label on the package is complete. According to the national standards, the outer packaging must be marked with the name of the factory, site, production date, shelf life, implementation standards, trademark, net content, ingredient list, nutrient composition list and eating method. It is best not to buy products that lack any of the above items.
3. See whether the labels in the nutrient composition table are complete and the content is reasonable. Generally, the basic nutrients such as calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin D, some B vitamins, and trace elements such as calcium, iron, zinc and phosphorus should be indicated in the nutrient composition table. Other added nutrients should also be marked. According to the national standard of supplementary food for infants in weaning period, the contents of vitamin A and vitamin D are between1000-1500 international units and 200-400 international units respectively. If vitamins A and D, as the main nutritional indicators, are less than the national standards, it may lead to malnutrition in infants.
4. Look at the product packaging instructions. Baby rice noodles should clearly indicate that the ideal food for babies is breast milk, and this product can be eaten when there is insufficient or no breast milk; When babies over 6 months old eat this product, they should be supplemented with supplementary food. Weaning formula rice flour should also indicate weaning formula food or weaning supplementary food. These statements must be made clear to consumers by enterprises.
5. Look at the color and smell of the product. Good quality rice flour should be white, uniform and consistent, with the fragrance of rice flour and no other smells, such as flavor.
6. Look at the organizational form and impulse of the product. It should be powdery or flaky, dry and loose, even and free from caking. After being brewed or cooked with a proper amount of warm water, it is lubricated into a paste after being fully stirred.
7. According to the ingredient content table, we can know whether it is supplementary rice flour in weaning period or supplementary rice flour in weaning period. The former not only provides certain calories, but also adds fat, protein, minerals and vitamins.
Matters needing attention in eating baby rice noodles
What babies need most in the growth stage is protein. The content of protein in rice flour is low, which can not meet the needs of babies' growth and development. If only rice flour food is used instead of milk, protein's deficiency will appear.
The specific manifestations are: slow growth and development, affecting the growth of nervous system, blood system and muscle of infants, and low resistance, insufficient immunoglobulin, and easy to get sick. Therefore, infants under 1 year should still be based on formula milk powder.
Babies fed with rice flour for a long time have a slow growth in height, but their weight does not necessarily decrease. Instead, they are white and fat, and their skin is full of fat converted from excessive sugar intake, which is medically called mud paste. However, these children are weak in the outside, often suffering from anemia, rickets, and susceptible to bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases.
Some parents, it is even more inappropriate to add rice flour food in the newborn period. Pancreatic amylase will not reach the adult level until the baby is about 4 months old, so the baby should not add rice flour food within 4 months. After 4 months, feed some rice flour food properly, but not only rice flour. Even if it is mixed with milk, it should be mainly milk, supplemented by rice flour.