Why is it not recommended to add salt to the baby's supplementary food for babies under the age of 2 years old?
Should the baby's complementary food be salted in the end?
This is definitely one of the most controversial issues.
Why is it not recommended to add salt to the supplementary food for babies under the age of 19?
So, after the baby is one year old, must the supplementary food be salted?
Why don't babies around 10 months old like to eat complementary foods?
Let's discuss it
1 Sodium exceeding the standard increases the burden on the kidneys
Some people will say "do not eat salt, the baby will have no strength", in fact, this statement is not reliable, to say "do not eat salt, worry about the baby's lack of sodium", but also can relax the heart, because breast milk, milk powder and other complementary foods contain sodium and chlorine, but do not exist in the form of sodium chloride, so there is no salty taste.
That is, the normal diet has met the baby's need for sodium, without relying on salt to supplement. However, if you add salt to the baby's complementary food in advance, and the baby's kidney function has not yet matured, excessive sodium intake will cause subtle changes in the kidneys.
2 Baby taste will be heavy
Do not use our adult taste to measure the baby's attitude to complementary foods Oh, just start to add complementary foods to the baby, the taste buds are still developing, if you prematurely let the baby contact with salty complementary foods, may affect the taste of adulthood Oh.
Moreover, the baby's taste will be slower than our adult taste, and we may feel that the tasteless complementary food is actually delicious in the eyes of the baby.
Babies who have just started to add complementary foods should try not to touch adult foods. Once the baby has tried the adult's very delicious and even some heavy taste meals, the baby may not want to go back to eating his own tasteless complementary food. This is also the reason why many babies become less fond of complementary foods when they are about 10 months old.
3A must I add salt to my food after 3 years of age?
Usually, when I send out recipes, there will be a lot of bao moms asking, do you not add salt? Need to add seasoning? It is true that I did not add any seasoning to many 18-month supplement recipes.
If babies over the age of 1 can continue to receive the original food, there is no need to force salt. Children can add a small amount of salt from the age of one, which does not mean that it is "necessary" to add salt. Therefore, when making onions, tomatoes, shrimp and other ingredients that are very flavorful in their own food, I will choose not to add salt. Try to use the taste of the ingredients themselves to attract your baby.
However, because salt is an important source of iodine, if you do not eat salt at all, you need to pay attention to supplementing iodine, eat iodine-rich foods such as seaweed kelp several times a week, and usually you can also replace some livestock meat with seafood.
4How to make unsalted complementary foods delicious?
Many mothers feel that the baby who does not add salt does not like to eat. Most of this happens when the baby is about 10 months old, and careful observation will find that the baby has a common point, that is, he has eaten adult food! You know what's delicious and what's not! Food that has no taste can no longer tempt me! I'm going to eat your meals!
This kind of annoyance has also bothered me for a while, mothers don't worry, the baby's taste can be changed, including the taste of adults, 21 days will change people's eating habits. Do not limit the salt at once, but gradually reduce the amount of salt, and then through pumpkin, sesame paste, tomatoes, onions and other seasoning ingredients, to make the complementary food tasteful, slowly reduce the baby's dependence on salt.
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