Since doing science popularization, practical knowledge reserves are more and more, gradually, good friends who have babies around will naturally ask themselves first, and what things to buy will also ask "You help me see, is there any pit in this?" ”
I call it a sense of accomplishment boom ah ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
This is not, a good friend, Eva is more than 1 year old (just my popular science goal, come to the aunt bowl), this day, suddenly bubbling asked me:
We don't dare to answer casually, for fear of smashing the signboard of our own professional science popularization workers.
Therefore, after carefully checking the information, give my good girlfriend a detailed answer.
(Unexpectedly, there are serial questions behind her, but I was killed and covered my face)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > How old can a child eat cheese? </h1>
There are standard answers to this!
Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2016) recommend:
For children aged 13 to 24 months, you can gradually try ordinary fresh milk, yogurt, cheese, etc. as part of food diversification, but it is recommended to eat a small amount.
In other words, basically after the baby is one year old, you can try to eat cheese.
Babies eat small amounts, but their nutritional needs are relatively high, and they need foods with high nutrient density. This cheese definitely lives up to its name.
Because cheese is considered concentrated milk, 10kg of cow milk milked off the water to make 1kg of cheese.
I have extracted the nutritional comparison of milk and cheese from the literature, and you can take a look at it.
In terms of vitamin A, calcium, phosphorus, and zinc content, cheese is several times that of milk, and the degree of nutrient absorption is particularly high.
Source: EFSA:
https ://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/assets/DRV_Summary_tables_jan_17.pdf。
The calcium content of each 100g of cheese is as high as 800mg, which is "leading" with an absolute advantage, and the baby sometimes cannot drink too much milk or eat enough complementary foods, and can use the right amount of cheese as a nutritional supplement.
Because bacteria gradually consume the lactose in cheese during fermentation, like fresh milk contains about 5% lactose, but cheddar cheese contains only 0.5% lactose at most. Adults and children with lactose intolerance can also try cheese.
But Xiaobian needs to remind everyone that cheese still cannot replace breast milk or formula powder, because the content of saturated fatty acids in cheese is high, which is not suitable for children to eat more, and babies are prone to fat when they eat more.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="91" can > cheese be bought directly at the supermarket? </h1>
Of course you can buy it at the supermarket, but hehe... You'll be overwhelmed by a variety of cheeses!
Cheddar cheese, mozzarella, mascarpone, cream cheese, and a variety of children's cheeses that cannot be named...
It was dizzy to watch, not to mention how to choose.
Don't look at the types of cheese, no matter how they are divided, it can be summed up in two categories - natural cheese and refined cheese.
The cheese I just said is so good and so good, I mean natural cheese.
For the baby to choose, be sure to look for natural cheese.
Natural cheese is made of sheep, goats, buffalo, reindeer, camels and yak milk, which can be full-fat, low-fat, non-fat, coagulated with rennet, drained, salted solids, added lactic acid bacteria, streptococcus, and air-dried and fermented in a cool and ventilated place for 1-2 years.
The ingredients are simple, mainly milk, lactic acid bacteria, rennet, salt, etc.
Natural cheeses taste sour, salty and smelly, but the cream is particularly rich. It is said that the White House once entertained guests with a piece of cheese of tens of kilograms, and then the cheese smell was scattered throughout the White House for two weeks.
Because it is salted, natural cheese is high in calcium and protein, but also high in sodium. Fortunately, there are many varieties of natural cheese, and it is good to find high-calcium and low-sodium varieties.
For example, looking at the nutrition facts table below, the sodium content > 700mg/100g of cheese, which is typically high sodium, direct PASS.
And this natural cheese with a sodium content of 200mg/100g is high in calcium and low sodium, which can be eaten by the baby.
Experience suggests that the sodium in the general market cheddar cheese and mozzarella cheese is generally higher, and the sodium of the cheese with holes is lower, and everyone looks at the pick.
Another point must remind mothers to pay attention to, most of the merchants will use 100g as a standard statistics when counting nutritional components. But some merchants will play a "edge ball" and play a little "careful machine", such as 28g as a statistical standard, thus blurring the high content of sodium.
Like the two kinds of cheese in the above figure, the left side is based on the standard of 28g per serving, a dozen eyes see that the sodium content is not high, but a conversion, you will find that the sodium content in 100g is as high as 750mg, and the right side contains only 170mg of sodium per 100g.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="92" >Why can some cheeses be eaten over 3 years old? </h1>
Because it's not natural cheese, it's remastered cheese! There are a lot of additives!
If you look closely at the back of the package, there are a lot of cheese bars, cheese slices, grated cheese, cheese strips in the supermarket, cheese slices for hamburgers, mozzarella strips for pizza, and they are actually re-made cheese.
Most of the cheese slices used in hamburgers are reconstituted cheeses
Because many people can't stand the smell of natural cheese, re-making cheese In order to solve this problem, the natural cheese is reprocessed, heated, melted, and then added with water, cream, gelatin, sugar, flavor, preservatives and other additives.
The national standard stipulates that the cheese content in the reconstituted cheese can exceed 15%, and most of the rest are conventional materials.
Therefore, the taste of re-made cheese is usually better than that of natural cheese, but there are more additives, the overall quality of the ingredients is not as good as pure natural cheese, and there may still be high sodium problems.
Especially in the supermarket, there are a variety of children's cheeses and cheese sticks, most of which are re-made cheese in order to make the baby like. Even if the word "child" is added, it cannot be eaten unscrupulously.
In general, babies under 3 years old are not recommended to eat this cheese, and babies over 3 years old should also eat it appropriately.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="93" > Inner Mongolia cheese strips on the Internet, is it the same as cheese? </h1>
It's just a regular snack! The calcium content is not as good as that of the cheese.
Just look at the ingredients.
The so-called Inner Mongolia cheese strips, if they are made of pure milk dehydration, should not have a calcium content similar to pure milk. So it should not be a cheese method, or add other solid ingredients, it is a snack, basically not cheese.
Of course, it is not excluded that there are really cheese strips with high calcium and low sodium, judging it according to the ingredient list.
So how to choose, you know?
1, natural cheese, choose high calcium and low sodium, more than 1 year old can eat.
2, hamburger cheese slices, pizza strips of cheese, children's cheese sticks, mostly remade cheese, additives, more than 3 years old can eat a small amount.
3, Inner Mongolia cheese strips, milk blocks, basically not cheese, is a snack, adults and children eat less.