Many mothers think that this cheese, 10 pounds of milk can make 1 pound of cheese! This is the essence of milk, then give the baby some more! However, my girlfriend is 3 years and 4 months old, I have not eaten cheese for her, and I have not planned to give cheese to my daughter in the past two or three years.
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What is cheese?
Cheese, also known as cheese, is a fermented dairy product with high nutritional value, which is a product that adds an appropriate amount of lactic ferment agent or rennet to the raw milk to make the protein coagulate, plus salt, and press the product after eliminating whey.
Is the nutrition of cheese really as good as the legend goes?
Cheese protein is mostly casein, there are some albumin and globulin, protein wrapped fat components account for more than 45% of the solids, fat in the fermentation of the decomposition products to make cheese has a unique flavor; however, cheese in the production process, most of the lactose and water-soluble vitamins lost, vitamin C almost all lost; fortunately, most of the fat-soluble vitamins with the fat retained, calcium content of raw milk 5 times, sodium content depends on whether salt is added during the production process.
Is cheese really more nutritious than milk?
No, it is really impossible to compare simply and rudely, in the same weight of cheese and milk comparison, the nutritional value of cheese is indeed relatively high, in addition to lactose and vitamin C content is lower than milk, other nutrients are higher than milk. However, 100ml of milk baby is easy to drink, but 100g of cheese can not eat yo, and the cheese purchased on the market, most of them are added salt, so the sodium content is relatively high, for babies, especially small babies, kidney function development is not perfect, will increase the burden of glomerular filtration, is not conducive to the health of the baby.
Why don't I give my girlfriend cheese?
In fact, the reason why I do not give cheese to my girlfriend, in addition to the sodium content mentioned above is too high, there is a more important reason is that the fat content is too high, and most of the fat in the cheese is saturated fatty acids; there is more important than saturated fatty acids; the reason why it is more important than saturated fatty acids is that it is actually difficult to buy pure dry cheese on the market, unless you are doing baking, the cheese sold in general supermarkets, shopping malls and other stores is remade cheese, in addition to some dry cheese in the production process, some water, sugar, flavor, pigment, thickener, etc. will be added. So, the cheese you buy for your baby isn't as nutritious as you think.
How old can a baby eat cheese?
As far as cheese is mainly casein, fat and sodium content is particularly high, these points, babies under 2 years old do not give, if you add flavor pigment + preservatives, how big the baby is not suitable, at least within 5 years of age do not give. But if you buy pure cheese, used for baking, after the age of 3 years old baby occasionally eat a small amount of food is still OK, if your family eat cheese is homemade, no salt is added, used to make baking snacks, etc., after the age of 2 years old, occasionally eat a little to taste it is still OK, but baking food due to cooking techniques lead to low moisture content, high calories, high temperature baking is also easy to cause the baby to catch fire, so be sure to control the amount, a shallow taste can be.
As a mother, to choose food for the baby, can not simply listen to the sales staff's publicity and promotion language, but to learn to look at the ingredient list and nutritional composition list, more importantly, as far as possible to avoid flavors, pigments, preservatives and other food additives, high protein, calcium content is not necessarily suitable for the needs of the baby's growth and development.
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