My mother-in-law said that fruits are rich in nutrients and are "big households" of vitamins.
So every day to give 7 months of Erbao to eat a lot of fruit, the amount of eating has been seriously exceeded.
For this reason, a serious contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law broke out between us, I think that mother-in-law raising babies is not scientific, and my mother-in-law believes that my statement has no scientific basis and is not convincing enough.
Later, my mother-in-law asked our neighbor, a pediatric expert, and finally learned that the fruit is rich in nutrients, and the more the merrier, this is a misunderstanding.
Babies of different months of age eat fruit with exquisiteness, the following precautions parents should know.
When does your baby start eating fruit?
After 6 months, after adding complementary foods for a few days, your baby can try to add fresh fruit to your baby.
When you start adding, follow the principle of "add a small amount, watch carefully".
When adding fruit for the first time, you can squeeze out the juice for the baby to drink, and then observe the baby's skin and stool for two or three days to determine that there is no abnormality, and then increase the amount and type, from the juice to the mud to the block step by step.
When you first add fruit to your baby, you can choose fruits with delicate fibers, which are easy to digest and absorb by your baby.
Apples, bananas, avocados are recommended.
Apples are delicious, mild in nature, and contain a variety of vitamins and minerals that can be eaten all year round.
And apples can also improve the function of the gastrointestinal tract and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. Eating apples raw can prevent constipation, and steaming apples can effectively stop diarrhea.
Dutch scientists believe that the fruit that most meets nutritional standards and can add a smile to people's faces is bananas, and the pantothenic acid and other components contained in bananas are the "happy hormones" of the human body, which can reduce psychological stress.
In addition, bananas have the effect of moisturizing and laxative, and the taste is sweet and soft, and the potassium content is extremely high.
Avocado, the flesh has a light fragrance, delicate taste, and contains more calcium, the appropriate intake can supplement the baby's absorption of calcium, in order to promote the growth and development of bones.
How much fruit does your baby eat every day?
Although the fruit is rich in nutrients, it is really not the more the merrier.
The Chinese Nutrition Society's "Balanced Diet Pagoda for Women and Children" recommends:
7--12 months of age intake of 25--100g of fruit, 3--4 cloves of oranges or 1/2- 1/3 banana is about 50g;
1-2 years old consume 50--150g of fruit per day, 2 petals of grapefruit or 1/4 of the dragon fruit is about 100g;
2--3 years old intake of 100--200g of fruit per day, 1 banana is about 150g;
4--5 years old eat 150--250g of fruit per day, I have 1 pear or 1 apple is about 200g.
Within 1 year of age, milk and formula are the main sources of nutrition for children, and priority should be given to maintaining a daily milk volume of 600 to 800 ml.
On this basis, 6-12 months of age is a period of high incidence of iron deficiency anemia, and priority should be given to ensuring iron-rich ingredients, such as red meat, animal liver, animal blood products, etc.
Then add a little vegetables and fruits according to your baby's appetite.
In short, the fruit that the child eats must not affect the drinking of milk and eating.
How do babies of different months eat fruit?
Because the baby is relatively young, eating fruit requires special attention, with the increase of monthly age, in addition to the increase in the amount of fruit, the shape of the fruit should also change.
You can't give your baby a pureed fruit because you are worried about choking, and different shapes of fruit can exercise your baby's chewing ability.
Mud-like: Generally 6-month-old babies begin to be delicately muddy;
Flakes: At 7 months of age, it can become rough mud and grainy;
Strips: 8--9 months old to try soft fruit strips, such as dragon fruit strips, apple strips, etc.;
Block: 10--12 months old can try harder fruit blocks, such as apple blocks, melon blocks, etc
Precautions for babies eating fruit
1. No heating
Many mothers feel that the fruit is cold, especially in winter, and feel that eating raw fruit is worried about the baby's diarrhea.
I think the fruit should be heated or boiled before giving it to the child.
But Associate Professor Fan Zhihong of the Food College of China Agricultural University suggested that the fruit was best not cooked and eaten.
The reason is that the process of heating destroys the vitamins in the fruit and loses nutrients.
Most vitamins are not stable to heat, for example, water-soluble vitamins such as B and C break down at temperatures of about 80 degrees.
In general, in addition to the fruit taken out of the refrigeration can not be eaten directly, other fruits are recommended to eat raw.
If you have to heat it, you can soak it in warm water at about 50 ° C to wash it, or you can choose to steam it.
2. Choose the right time
Eating fruit can not be arbitrary, you can eat at any time you want, you must choose the right time.
It is not recommended to give your baby fruit before and after meals.
The baby's stomach capacity is relatively small, if you eat fruit before meals, it will affect the amount of milk and the intake of other complementary foods.
Many mothers believe that eating fruit after meals can promote food digestion, which is true for adults, but it is not suitable for infants and young children who are growing and developing.
The sugar in the fruit will be blocked in the stomach, which can easily cause flatulence and constipation
The best time for your child to eat fruit – between meals, or after waking up from a nap.
3. Fruit is not juiced
According to the advice given by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), it is not recommended that babies under 1 year of age drink juice be discouraged.
After the fruit is juiced, all the sugars in the fruit will be concentrated, and when there is too much fructose in the body, it will cause the baby's body to lack copper, affecting the development of bones and causing short stature.
This is, as the saying goes, "sugar eats too much and grows taller".
In addition, the nutrient content in the juice will become less, and the peel will be removed with each juice, and the dietary fiber content in the peel is very high.
There is also a situation, if the baby is used to drinking juice from an early age, it lays a hidden danger for picky eating and obesity when he grows up.
Therefore, letting the baby eat the fruit directly is the best way to retain all the nutrients.
4. Be sure to pay attention to hygiene and prevent choking
When giving the baby fruit, parents should pay attention to the fact that the fruit must be washed to ensure clean hygiene, and most of the fruits now are sprayed with pesticides.
When eating small and round fruits such as grapes, cherries, and cherry tomatoes, it is easy to cause danger, and parents should be particularly careful not to give the baby the whole thing.
For example, grapes can be cut longitudinally to facilitate the passage of fruit through your baby's throat, preventing your baby from choking, choking and other dangerous situations.
After eating the fruit, remember to rinse your baby's mouth to prevent the residue of sugar from hurting your teeth.
5. Do not eat mango, pineapple, kiwi fruit
Babies with allergies cannot easily eat the three fruits of mango, pineapple and kiwi fruit.
Pineapple - contains a type of bromelain, it will break down the protein in the body, the human oral mucosa and lip epidermis has a stimulating effect.
Mango – Babies who are allergic to mango eat or come into contact with mango can cause allergic contact dermatitis, which is what we often call "mango dermatitis".
Kiwi fruit - easy to cause allergic laryngitis, which is a damage to the mucous membrane of the larynx, with symptoms such as itchy throat and tingling of the tongue.
Write at the end
The baby's diet, "eat right" is more important than "eat more".
It is not to say that it is good to give the baby a lot of fruit, but it must be eaten according to the baby's age and body growth needs, otherwise the more you eat, the more you can't digest it, not only become garbage, but also may get sick.
The little fruit contains the university to ask if it is worth eating right.