When it comes to dietary fiber in food, people tend to think of those vegetables with silky, ribbed vegetables. Every time you give your baby dietary fiber, moms can't escape the same kind of dishes. In fact, this is a common mass misconception.
4-10 months old baby
In four months, when the baby starts to eat rice cereal, he can feed vegetables. Of course, it is necessary to make pureed vegetables to eat. The correct approach should be: use green vegetables such as green vegetables, spinach, spinach, or carrots as raw materials. , Cut the leaves or shred the carrots, put it into the boiled bowl of water, cover and cook for about 10 minutes. Leave the fire and cover it until it cools down. Then sifter the leaves with a spoon or spoon. mud. Mud can not put salt, the average baby does not love to eat alone, can be added to eat porridge and rice husk together to eat, once or twice a day, each time 1 to 2 tablespoons can be. However, the vegetable puree should be eaten at that time to avoid the loss of vitamins in the air. This method is particularly effective in preventing baby constipation caused by eating milk alone. The baby can try to give mashed potatoes or green bean paste for 6 months.
Vegetable foods can be divided into leafy vegetables, roots, melons, and fresh beans. Vitamin content is the most abundant among green vegetables in all types of vegetables, followed by root vegetables, and relatively few varieties of melon.
In green leafy vegetables, with the exception of vitamin C, other vitamins are higher in the leaves than in the rhizomes, and the younger leaves are higher than the dead leaves. The darker dishes are higher than the light-colored vegetables. Therefore, the mother should pay attention when choosing the vegetables that the baby eats. Choose fresh, dark green leafy vegetables.
In order to ensure your baby's health and nutrition, mothers should pay attention to the following points when selecting and cooking vegetables!
1) Adding a small amount of starch when cooking vegetables or other foods not only thickens the soup, but also prevents the destruction of ascorbic acid. Glutathione is also contained in meat and it also protects ascorbic acid. Therefore, when your baby is 7-8 months old, you can eat porridge, smashed noodles, and other supplementary foods made from minced meat and minced meat.
2) When making vegetable soup, wait until the water has boiled before putting the vegetables in the pot.
3) It is best to use iron or aluminum pans and shovels for home cooking. Do not use copper cookware.
4) Try not to make soup with spinach, kale, onion and other vegetables. Those vegetables contain more oxalic acid, and the formation of calcium oxalate is not conducive to the absorption of calcium. You can use rapeseed, shiitake, kale and other vegetables with high calcium content and easy absorption by the body.
5) For babies aged 5-6 months, fresh beans such as edamame, lentils, broad beans, and concanavalin should be used. Because these vegetables contain relatively high protein, and the iron in legumes is easily digested and absorbed by the body, it is beneficial to prevent the anemia caused by the mother's storage of iron after birth for 4 months.
6) The vegetables should be as fresh as possible, and the root vegetables should be washed and cut first. The time between washing and cooking should not be too long.
7) Vegetables should be fired with rapid fire. Do not use the vegetables after cooking or squeeze them and then fry them. The nutrients are mostly lost, leaving only cellulose.
Experts suggest that vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, cabbage, Chinese wolfberry, bamboo shoots, potatoes, alfalfa, pumpkin, loofah, and cucumber have their own characteristics, but the content of inorganic salts and vitamins is lower than that of leafy vegetables. Mothers can use carrots, bitter gourds, tomatoes, bell peppers, and other vegetables with high vitamin C content and inorganic salts, as well as green leafy vegetables for baby food.
4 tips for changing your baby's taste for vegetables
Method 1: Remove the "sour" and "spicy" that the baby hates in vegetables
In life, they have the ability to discriminate and taste good foods. Babies like to eat “sweetness†related to heat, “protein†or “umami†food with more protein, or “sour†or “toxin†with decay signals. The signal's "spicy (bitter)" food is a normal manifestation. So the first thing mothers need to do is to learn how to cover up the bitterness and sourness of many vegetables. This is the most important point for babies to love vegetables.
Method 2: Do not rush to give your baby too much, or eat too much food for your baby
If you want to eat vegetables, eat them as usual. However, this is not to say that because you want to give a sufficient amount, you immediately boiled a spinach to the baby and noticed that it was appropriate. In addition, pumpkins, radishes, or carrots that need to be cut into small pieces of vegetables should be palatable and should not be cut too large so that babies are not easy to access. In the period of 7-8 months, the baby is usually cut into small pieces of about 2 to 3 mm. The babies from 1 to 1 year old and about 3 months old can be roughly cut into small pieces of about 1 cm.
Method 3: Is the vegetable boiled enough? Is the baby's hard-to-digest dietary fiber removed?
Meals are so rushed that the time for the cooking of the vegetables is too short; foods and meals are left with coarse fibers and the like, and if the food is eaten by the baby, the baby will certainly feel annoying. The chewing power of the baby is very weak, so the softness of the food must be suitable for the baby. In addition, if the time for cooking is too short, there will be some cases where the sweetness of the vegetables cannot be fully revealed. Therefore, attention must be paid to the taste.
Method 4: Baby is difficult to get used to the graininess or texture of some vegetables
People will instinctively reject the things that are not smooth enough at the entrance. Therefore, in addition to the taste, the touch of the baby's tongue is also very important. For babies with obvious graininess like zealand, or vegetables with radishes such as coarse fiber, baby is very sensitive. So we can try to make it paste, mud, and then mixed with other ingredients together, so that the baby can have a more smooth tongue touch.