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Many parents are convinced of the saying that "children cannot eat salt", and they are determined to implement this as a standard after having a baby.
At first glance, it is indeed very easy to understand, that is, children can not eat salt, but if you look deeply, you will find an important bug: how old are children, when can they eat salt?
How old can a child eat salt?
There are also many theories about the age of children eating salt, some say that they can't eat salt before the age of 3, the later they eat the better, and some say that they can eat salt at the age of 1, which makes new parents confused.
The saying in the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents is that you don't need to add salt to your baby before the age of 1.
That is to say, regarding the matter of giving salt to the baby, the key time node is the "first year", and the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" believes that babies can slowly try to eat salt after the age of 1.
We must first know that the main component of salt is sodium, in addition to salt, many foods also contain sodium, but adults have a relatively high demand for sodium content, so they need to be obtained by adding salt.
For babies, the demand for sodium is very low, especially for babies under 6 months, only 170 mg per day, which can be fully absorbed in milk;
Babies from 6 months to 1 year old can already eat complementary foods, and complementary foods can also provide enough sodium for the baby, so the baby really does not need to add salt before the age of one.
Since there is enough sodium in the food, is it best to add salt to the baby at the age of 2 or 3?
Of course not, eating salt is also harmful, too early is not good too late, and new parents should understand this. The specific criterion for judging is to see the amount of salt the baby eats in the long term.
For example, 1-year-old adds salt to the baby, but the amount is very small, always help the baby control the intake, then this is healthy; while the 2-year-old adds salt to the baby, the dose becomes larger, which is unhealthy.
Therefore, adding salt is not the later the better, to achieve long-term less salt, step by step, always do not add salt to the baby, one is to affect the taste of the meal, and the other will also affect the baby's distinction of taste.
Add salt to your child, don't take the taste of adults as the standard
My mother-in-law is a "heavy mouth" person, and the complementary food he made for my family's second treasure can already taste "salty".
The first few times I communicated with my mother-in-law and asked her to make a supplementary food and put less salt, but I tasted it a few times and found that the supplementary food of Erbao was still very salty.
Later, I understood that the mother-in-law had put less salt in cooking for Erbao, but because her mouth weight was too serious, even if she put less, it was still high for the standard of baby intake.
So, when adding salt to your baby, don't take any adult as the standard.
The baby's demand for sodium itself is not as much as that of adults, plus a lot of food already has a certain amount of sodium, even if it is not salted, it is also delicious, some parents eat tasteless food, may be very delicious in the baby's mouth.
To allow the baby to establish his own taste and taste, parents can not interfere too much, at this time the more intervention is more troublesome when he grows up.
According to the dietary standard, the amount of salt in each meal is distributed according to the number of meals for the baby, which is a more scientific approach, see the figure below.
What are the harms to the baby if you eat too much salt?
If a baby is forced to "re-bite" from the beginning of eating salt, most of them will eat heavily when they grow up, which is very easy to establish the baby's dietary preferences, and from an early age, they are particularly picky about food, becoming picky and partial to food.
No matter how delicious the family is, the children do not care, only like the food that is placed in more spices outside, and the mouth will become more and more sharp.
In addition to eating habits, consuming too much salt can increase the burden on your baby's kidneys.
Adults eat too much salt will cause kidney disease, young children in the kidney is not fully developed in the case of sodium content exceeds the standard, it is difficult to digest, light a little is not bad.
New parents should also re-understand the phrase "children can't eat salt", in addition to eating less visible salt, there are many "invisible salts" to pay attention to!
For example, the proportion of "sodium content" in the food ingredient list, if it has exceeded the daily sodium content, then the child can not eat all of it, if it reaches half of the daily sodium content, then when making complementary foods, it is necessary to appropriately reduce the amount of salt.
All in all, adding spices to the baby is also a science, parents learn while taking the baby, do not have to worry or be too harsh, basically within a reasonable range will not cause harm.