The Hong Kong Council tells us which baby rice noodles are truly safe

Babies start at 4-6 months and can start to be exposed to solid foods, commonly known as "reinforcement", to absorb more diversified nutrients! Studies have found that the sooner they reinforce the BB at 4 to 6 months, the more they reduce their risk of food allergies.

If you want to reduce the risk of baby sensitivity, which point will you consider first when you choose complementary food reinforcement?

1. Natural and organic is not sensitive

2, safe and harmless, pure natural without adding chemical ingredients

3. All of the above

In the reinforcement period, the baby will be exposed to different foods, some parents will even give the baby to eat adult food, many BMW will encounter the baby's allergies, such as gastrointestinal discomfort, skin redness and other symptoms, to avoid the baby's sensitive discomfort, the first thing is to prevent the baby from contacting allergens, such as lactose intolerant babies to avoid contact with milk, lactose-containing complementary foods, gluten allergy babies to avoid contact with oats.

In addition to the fear of causing allergies, the most important point to consider in food supplements, like all baby foods or all foods, is safety, and the common substances that affect safety on complementary foods are as follows:

1. Carcinogenic fungi, such as aflatoxin B1

2. Pesticide residues, such as glyphosate

3. Heavy metal residues, such as cadmium, inorganic arsenic, lead, mercury

4. Bacteria, such as Bacillus cereus, Listeria, Salmonella

Recently, the Hong Kong Consumer Council conducted safety testing on 17 samples of infant cereals (i.e. infant rice flour, rice cereal, rice milk paste) on the market, and some samples were found to be cadmium or inorganic arsenic, aflatoxin B1, Bacillus cereus or glyphosate, a herbicide.

The three baby rice noodles with the highest overall ratings shown in the test report are:

Hong Kong version hiPP xibao organic baby pure rice paste

Hong Kong version of Friso Meisu Jiaer gold milk rice noodles

港版Gerber Rice Single Grain Cereal

Because the iron content in breast milk is very small, babies need to eat some iron-rich foods every day from 6 months of age. However, it should be noted that the general rice flour is mixed with formula milk, and the formula milk may already contain rich iron, the mother should pay attention to the content to reduce the number of times the rice flour is used, and it is not suitable for blind supplementation to lead to excessive intake of iron, increasing the baby's digestive and kidney burden.

Iron and calcium were detected in all samples of this sampling, and in terms of test results, infants and young children took 3 meals or less per day, and the recommended amount of food for each meal was used, and the relevant micronutrients were sufficient. On the contrary, the amount is larger, and if the sample with the highest vitamin A content is consumed 4 times this time, the upper limit of daily tolerable intake for infants aged 6 to 12 months is exceeded.

Infant And Toddler Eating Tips:

Learn from healthcare professionals about the nutritional needs of infants and young children at different stages of growth, so as to arrange the number of meals and servings per day.

Gradually add solid food at the appropriate stage, let the baby try the taste of different foods, and take balanced nutrition from a diversified diet, which will help reduce the possibility of future allergies.

The preparation method of different products may be different, some are added to boiling water, some are added to breast milk or formula. Therefore, the nutritional content of the paste-like food prepared and processed may be different, and attention should be paid to the staple food portions and needs of the infants themselves, and insufficient or excessive nutrition will also bring health risks to the baby (especially iron, calcium).

The three highest rated brands:

Hong Kong Xibao (the only organic full score brand) provided the EU organic certification to the Hong Kong Council, saying that it attaches great importance to the brand and safety of infant food, and its organic rice paste ingredients are natural (100% rice flour), which can be eaten with breast milk or formula milk, which helps infants and young children adapt and smoothly transition to the reinforcement period. To avoid excessive kidney load on your baby, no minerals or vitamins are over-added to organic food supplements.

Gerber did not provide an organic certificate to Xiaohui Hong Kong, saying that although it had food supplement samples that were found to be glyphosate (herbicide) and heavy metal cadmium, its content levels were lower than those of Hong Kong and EU regulations.

According to Meisu Jiaer, its milk paste series is produced in certified factories, the process is strictly monitored, and it has obtained a health certificate issued by the Dutch safety department.

After reading this article, mothers should know how to choose safe and suitable complementary foods for their babies

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