Can a one-year-old baby drink millet porridge boiled in brown sugar?
Yes, one-year-old babies can eat both brown sugar and millet porridge, but in moderation, otherwise they may get dental caries.
The functions of brown sugar are: moistening the heart and lungs, harmonizing the middle energizer and strengthening the spleen, soothing liver qi, relieving alcoholism, enriching blood and breaking blood stasis. One-year-old children's teeth haven't grown well, so it's suggested to give him boiled water as much as possible and drink less sugar water to avoid bad influence on his teeth.
Brown sugar refers to the finished sugar of sugar cane with honey, which is formed by squeezing and concentrating sugar cane. Brown sugar is divided into brown sugar, brown sugar powder, bowl sugar, etc. According to different crystal particles, because it has not been highly refined, it almost retains all the components in sugarcane juice. Besides the function of sugar, it also contains vitamins and trace elements, such as iron, zinc, manganese, chromium, etc., and its nutritional components are much higher than those of white sugar.
It is good for children to drink some brown sugar water in moderation every day, which can regulate the spleen and stomach and supplement trace elements. However, it is still recommended not to drink too much. Too much will easily cause children to gain weight and damage their teeth, such as dental caries.
If you want to give your child brown sugar water, you can drink it once in a few days, because drinking too much brown sugar water will increase the burden on your baby's kidneys, so just drink it in moderation, and don't drink brown sugar water before going to bed at night, which is very harmful to your health.
If the child doesn't like drinking water, you can squeeze some carrot juice for the baby, or all kinds of fruit and vegetable juices, which can be drunk by the child, so that the baby can gradually get used to it and then gradually get into the habit of drinking water. Drinking fruit and vegetable juice regularly can make children get more substances they need for physical growth, so that both vitamins, minerals and trace elements needed by the body can keep up with the needs of the child's body.