Text: Jing Ma
Pediatrician Liu Changyu found that parents still have a lot of misunderstandings about adding complementary food to their children, so he reminded parents that there are five main categories of complementary foods that pediatricians least want parents to add to their children.
Five types of complementary food pediatricians do not want parents to add to their children, see if you have been recruited
Category 1: broth, bone broth
Broth and bone broth are considered nutritious foods by many parents, but in fact, these soups only contain a lot of purines and fats, which will only cause indigestion in children, but calcium supplementation for children is completely unhelpful for protein supplements.
This has been the conclusion reached after a large number of evaluations, there is no calcium in the soup, there is no protein, so give the child bone broth or broth, if you make complementary food, it will only increase the burden on the child's stomach and intestines, lead to indigestion in the child, and even affect the intake of other complementary foods in the child, which is not conducive to the growth of the child.
In addition to broth, bone broth, there are also fish soup, chicken soup, etc., that is, all kinds of meat are boiled into soup, in fact, it is not recommended to give children to drink, because 90% of the milk that children drink contains water, and then give children some soup to cause children to be reluctant to drink milk.
Category 2: Fruit juices
I found that there is a very popular orange juice on the market now, it takes 8 oranges to squeeze a small cup of orange juice, which does seem to be very real, but this kind of juice for children to drink is actually more harmful than good, or even no good.
When we give fruit to our children, the fruit has dietary fiber, and fructose is also encapsulated in the cell wall, which is not so easy to release. However, if the fruit is squeezed directly into juice, the child may only eat 1 orange at a time if he eats it, but if he drinks the juice, he can drink the juice squeezed from 8 oranges, and the dietary fiber squeezed into the fruit juice is destroyed, and the fructose in it will also be released, which is not only easy to absorb fructose, but also has a higher fructose content, which is easy to cause caries in children.
Category 3: Fresh milk
In foreign countries, children can drink fresh milk after they are one year old, but many parents in China only give their children pure milk after the age of three, so children do not drink pure milk alone, but they should also pay attention not to take pure milk to make complementary food for children.
In addition to not drinking pure milk, it is not recommended to give children soy milk and other soy products, because children have limited ability to digest these proteins and may trigger allergies.
Category 4: All kinds of foods with seasonings
Children do not need to add salt to complementary food before the age of one, and we should pay attention to the complementary food added to the child, it is best to have a relatively low natural salt content, such as bacon, sausage, pickles, these pickled foods, it is not recommended for children to eat.
Because pickled food contains a lot of salt, and there may also be nitrite, which can not only harm the kidneys, but also cause nitrite poisoning, which is also a carcinogen.
Not only do you not give your child salt, sugar, soy sauce and other condiments, but it is also not recommended to give them to your child.
Category 5: Rice soup and porridge
Many elderly people think that rice soup has a high nutritional value, or that children eat white porridge is easy to digest, but they don't know that the nutrient density of porridge is very low in nutrition, only 0.2, and it also contains a lot of water.
If the child drinks milk every day and drinks a lot of water, and then gives the child white porridge, it is easy to cause the child to consume too much water and not eat other more nutritious food.
And there is only a small amount of carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and proteins in the white porridge, which is digested by the child, but the nutritional intake is also insufficient, which will affect the child's height growth and hurt the child's spleen and stomach.
Therefore, when children add complementary foods, try to eat some pureed foods at the beginning, such as pork liver puree, meat puree, or rice cereal, and slowly give children some sticky porridge, that is, these porridges are not watery and relatively viscous.
Eat softer rice slowly, but you should pay more attention to the dishes, after all, there are only carbohydrates and very few minerals and vitamins in rice, and the most important thing is to intake nutrients from the dishes to the children, so we must learn to add complementary foods to the children scientifically.
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