Recently, I met with my girlfriend to eat together, when we were eating cake, we saw that my girlfriend did not let the baby eat the cake, but asked the baby for a small fruit plate, asked her why she did not give the child a cake, she said, "The cakes outside are too sweet, you can not eat it without eating it."
Indeed, many mothers feel that the "cake" is not good and cannot be given to their babies.
In recent years, cakes have gradually been classified as "unhealthy" foods, in fact, I personally think it is a pity, because of its soft and sweet taste, it is quite suitable for eating as a small snack.
Of course, the premise is to control the choice of raw materials, as well as the amount of oil and sugar used.
The reason why everyone is not at ease may be because the cakes currently on the market not only exceed the amount of sugar and oil used, but also use low-cost vegetable cream instead of animal cream, plus the blessing of sugar, pigments, flavors and other additives, making the cake delicious and attractive.
Many supermarket cake shops will make cream cakes. It's like this:
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This cake can be said to be our childhood memories, but this kind of cake, the ingredient list ingredients may be incomplete, shoddy, the production date may also be stolen beams for columns, and the nutritional composition list is even more difficult to play a reference role.
Therefore, if it is not a big brand cake with standardized production requirements, it is still not recommended that everyone buy this kind of cake for children.
Animal Cream VS Vegetable Cream
To know the difference between the two, let's start with "What is cream?"
According to China's national food safety standards, butter refers to butter or cream, and cream refers to cream.
As the name suggests, cream has a higher moisture content than butter, which contains about 40% fat and 60% water; more than 80% of butter is fat, less than 16% is water, and the rest is residual protein, sugars, minerals and vitamins.
Let's talk about the difference between the two types of cream:
1. Animal cream
Animal cream is derived from milk and is more expensive.
Animal cream, also known as light cream or cream, is separated from whole milk and has a natural, rich frankincense. In the separation process, the fat in the milk is different in proportion, and the light fat balls will float on the upper layer and become cream.
2. Vegetable cream
Vegetable cream is processed from vegetable oil and is inexpensive.
It is also called margarine, margarine, vegetable cream, etc., and is often used as a substitute for light cream.
Vegetable cream is mostly made by hydrogenating vegetable oil and adding artificial flavors, preservatives, colors and other additives.
If you pay close attention to the ingredient labels of vegetable creams, you will find that there is no milk fat and cholesterol in it, but it may contain trans fatty acids.
The hydrogenation reaction mentioned here refers to the reaction of ordinary vegetable oils added to hydrogen catalyzed at a certain temperature and pressure.
The increased hardness of the hydrogenated vegetable oil can maintain the solid shape, and the plasticity, fusion and emulsification are enhanced, which can make the food more crisp. At the same time, it can also extend the shelf life of food, so it is widely used in food processing.
Of course, if it is completely hydrogenated, the problem is not big, but the chemical structure of some hydrogenated vegetable oils that have not been fully hydrogenated is trans-bonded, becoming trans fatty acids, which is not good for human health.
Precautions for children eating cake
What kind of cake can't children eat? How old can a child eat cake, and how much can he eat at a time?
If I had to choose, the commercially available cakes are not recommended for babies under one year old. In addition to the problem of animal and vegetable cream, there are also problems such as oil, salt and sugar, food additives and so on.
For babies over one year old, choose cakes made with animal cream or cooking oil, less oil, salt, sugar and additives, and a simple ingredient list. But to tell the truth, this kind of cake is estimated to be difficult to buy, so there is another way, that is, to control the intake, reduce the frequency of consumption, each intake does not exceed 50 grams.
If parents have time, they can also make it at home, not only the quality of raw materials is good, but also the amount of oil, salt and sugar used is better controlled.
TIPs：
The production of cake is mainly to send egg whites, so as to achieve a certain degree of fluffiness, as long as you master this skill, even if you do not put oil or very little oil, a small amount of sugar can also make a soft cake, so that the baby can eat a delicious cake at one year old.
What kind of cake do you usually buy for your child?
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About author:Wang Bin, a child nutritionist, is a national second-level public nutritionist and a national senior nutrition lecturer. Good at combining medicine with modern nutrition knowledge, focusing on the field of maternal and infant nutrition and health, teaching you to feed your children scientifically!