Nutritious freshly squeezed juice that is often given to children may be fruit waste?
In recent years, high uric acid and obesity have frequently found young babies.
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12-year-old baby, 5 years pro-juice, far white water, sudden ventilation...
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Parents took a 110-pound 10-year-old boy for a physical examination, and unfortunately diagnosed hyperuricemia and obesity!
The illness came like a mountain, and my parents panicked. Isn't it wrong to give your baby freshly squeezed juice? Isn't it more nutritious? This is not a "drink" after all!
In fact, freshly squeezed fruit juice is super high in sugar and not as healthy as fruit! Not much better than a drink!
Why can't babies drink too much freshly squeezed juice and what is the limit for drinking juice every day?
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Freshly squeezed juice is actually "fruit waste"
To squeeze a 350ml glass of fresh juice, you need about 5 oranges.
Is that equivalent to letting the baby absorb the nutrients of 5 oranges?
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In order to let Bao Bao Bao Ma see the "true face" of juice more intuitively, Keda prepared a small experiment.
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From fruit to fruit juice, it seems that only the form has changed, but in fact, the nutritional content and sugar content are fundamentally different.
➤ Loss of nutrients
As we all know, fruits contain a variety of healthy ingredients such as fiber and vitamin C, which can help babies improve their immunity.
But to squeeze the fruit into juice, no matter how it is executed, it will inevitably destroy the vitamins in the fruit that are easily oxidized.
Experimental data show that the vitamin C content per 100 grams of oranges after the fruit is juiced has decreased by about 32.76%.
In addition to vitamin C, most of the nutrients such as fiber, calcium, and pectin, which are not easily soluble in water, are not immune to the "fate" of being discarded.
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Throwing away so much nutritious juice is a glass of sugar water if rounded up.
➤ The fruit becomes juice and the sugar content is doubled
The sugar content of different fruit juices varies greatly, with orange juice containing about 7%, apple and pear juice about 10%, and sugar cane juice even up to 18%.
However, the body's digestion of sugar is limited, and the inexhaustible sugar can only be turned into fat and accumulated, and the tragic journey of the baby to be promoted to a "little fat baby" began.
And the baby ingests too much sugar, which will not only aggravate the obesity in appearance, but also produce tooth decay, accelerate the formation of uric acid, and even the gout symptoms mentioned above!
The World Health Organization recommends that the daily intake of artificial added sugar should not exceed 25g, but the limit of the baby should be lower.
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At this point, the department greatly suggests that for high-sugar foods such as fruit juices, drinks, and marshmallows, the baby can eat less if he can.
Speaking of which, all parents get it, right?
Freshly squeezed juice is not a "good health partner", and the standard of moderate drinking should not be forgotten!
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In three cases, let the baby say bye to the juice
HKUST always saw the parents talking to the baby and said:
Don't drink Coke all the time, drink plenty of fresh juice!
U1S1, if you weren't still reading and studying, the University of Science and Technology would have wondered if the baby was biological!
Isn't it fragrant to eat fruit directly for the baby?
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But if the baby "splashes and rolls" and asks for some juice, it is not necessary to refuse it all by one, but it is important to control the amount.
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The recommended intake is not the law, the baby has the following situations, please be sure to keep him/her away from juice!
➤ Babies under 1 year old
Babies are naturally sweet and must prefer flavorful juices to plain water.
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But for babies under 1 year old, fruit juice has no nutritional value, and excessive sugar can cause health problems such as tooth decay, obesity, and osmotic diarrhea.
It will even affect the baby's absorption of copper, thus burying hidden dangers for heart disease, anemia and other diseases.
➤ The baby is in a state of diarrhea
For children with a less healthy digestive system, fruit juice is not a good thing.
The intestinal absorption function of the baby is poor when it has diarrhea, and the high sugar in the juice cannot be absorbed.
This increases the osmotic pressure in the intestines, which in turn absorbs more water, leading to worsening of diarrhea and even osmotic diarrhea.
Therefore, the baby should not drink juice when he has diarrhea, and the effect of oral rehydration salts will be better!
➤ A baby taking medicine
Many parents will add juice to the medicine in order to let the sick baby take the medicine smoothly!
In this regard, HKUST would like to say:
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Fruit juice contains a lot of fruit acid, and the baby drinks fruit juice within 1 hour of taking the drug, and the acidic substances are easy to dissolve the drug in advance.
Especially when used with aspirin and other drugs, the drug has an irritating effect on the gastric mucosa, and AHAs will aggravate the irritation of the stomach wall, and in severe cases, it will cause bleeding in the baby's gastric mucosa.
Antibiotics such as erythromycin are easy to fuse with fruit acids and even produce harmful substances, which can adversely affect the baby's body.
About the knowledge of the baby drinking juice, the University of Science and Technology has talked about this!