When you visit the supermarket, you will find a wide variety of milk, pure milk, yogurt, concocted milk, lactic acid bacteria milk...
Among them, yogurt can be said to be loved by mothers, because babies love to eat, and it is a nutritious and digestible dairy product.
But when it comes to buying yogurt, is it really the right one? What are the issues to be aware of?
How old can a child drink yogurt?
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies over 6 months of age add yogurt to their food supplements.
However, according to the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2016 Edition), it is recommended that:
Children between the ages of 13 and 24 months can gradually try yogurt as part of a food diversification, but it is recommended to eat a small amount of food, not to completely replace breast milk or formula powder at once.
There are individual differences in children, in order to avoid triggering allergic reactions, it is recommended that you try conservatively, you can add yogurt after the child is 1 year old.
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How to choose yogurt?
Now there are many varieties of yogurt in major supermarkets, dazzling, a variety of brands to choose from, so when you choose to buy, you can see clearly, maybe if you are not careful, you will buy "fake yogurt"!
So, what is "real yogurt" and what is "fake yogurt"?
How can you identify "fake yogurt" at a glance? Here are four ways to tell you how to identify real and fake yogurt!
01
Look at the name of the food to determine if it is yogurt
Real yogurt, commonly known as "yogurt, fermented milk, sour milk and yogurt".
If the packaging is printed with the words "drink" or "beverage", it is basically possible to determine that they are not yogurt.
For example: yogurt drinks, acid milk drinks, lactic acid drinks, lactic acid bacteria drinks... These are not real yogurts.
These drinks are low in milk and have a lot of added sugar.
02
Looking at the ingredient list, the most content of "fake yogurt" is "water"
Yogurt and milk drinks also have obvious differences in the ingredient list "real yogurt" is mainly based on milk as raw material, so the first place in the general yogurt ingredient list is milk /milk.
Fake yogurt is called "milk drink", and basically, milk drink is a drink formulated with milk or dairy products and sugar and various additives (flavoring agents, pigments, thickeners, etc.) in water.
Therefore, the first place in the ingredient list is "water", please be careful when purchasing.
03
Look at protein versus carbohydrate content
The 2 numbers that must be looked at when buying yogurt are - protein content and carbohydrate content.
Regarding dairy products, China has very clear regulations, the protein content of plain yogurt should be ≥ 2.9%, flavored yogurt should be ≥ 2.3%, if it is lower than this standard, it proves that it is likely to be fake yogurt.
Of course, the larger this value, the more protein content, the richer the nutrients.
The second is to look at carbohydrates. High carbohydrate content, generally means that the added sugar content is also high.
The carbohydrate content is relatively normal at about 11g to 12g, and it is a little high at about 15g.
When we choose yogurt, we should learn to look at the ingredient list and choose more products with high protein content and low carbohydrates.
04
Choose yogurt without/with little sugar
In addition to sucrose and white sugar, maltose, galactose, lactose, fructose syrup, concentrated fruit juice, glucose, honey, etc. written in the recipe are also sugars.
For example, the following kind, the box is all sugar, mothers must pay attention.
05
Yogurt with "flavor", don't!
In simple terms, seeing the word "flavor" means that something else has been added to the yogurt.
Nearly one-fifth of the space is freed up for fruits, grains, and various additives that increase nutrition and improve taste texture.
Therefore, the taste and taste of flavored yogurt are better, but the sugar and fat content is higher than yogurt.
Five taboos for drinking yogurt
Not the bigger the better
Many children like to drink yogurt, and even treat it as a drink, several bottles a day, and even some children take yogurt as water to drink, do not drink white water, only drink yogurt to quench thirst, which is very detrimental to health.
Experts pointed out that drinking yogurt is not the more the better, pay attention to the appropriate population and dosage, do not overeat.
Be sure to pay attention to controlling the amount Oh, children can drink a small box a day
Try not to drink on an empty stomach, drink after meals
Drinking yogurt on an empty stomach may stimulate the stomach, especially in people with more stomach acid, it is best not to drink it on an empty stomach.
Yogurt containing probiotics, generally choose to drink after meals is better.
In order to retain the activity of the probiotics contained in yogurt, it is best not to drink hot drinks before and after drinking yogurt.
It can only be refrigerated and not heated
Many people know that the thousands of "bacteria" in yogurt are good things, but they don't know how to keep them.
When yogurt is first produced, it is full of live bacteria, and only refrigeration can keep the live bacteria well.
Some parents are worried that cold yogurt will stimulate the child's gastrointestinal tract, and like to give the yogurt hot to the child to drink, in fact, this practice is very incorrect.
Want to drink fruit yogurt add yourself
Experts remind that if you want to enrich the taste of yogurt, you may wish to add at home, fruit materials, jams, and pulp are processed by multiple processes, and their nutritional composition is certainly not as good as fresh fruits.
So if you want to increase the taste of yogurt, parents may wish to cut the fruit at home and put it into yogurt for their children to eat, which is both nutritious, delicious and healthy!
Yogurt is not as thick as possible
Many parents think that the thicker the yogurt, the better, but in fact, many very thick yogurts are only because of the addition of various thickeners.
Although too much thickener makes yogurt taste mellow, it is not good for the body.
Rabbit sister finally reminded that children with gastroenteritis and allergies to milk protein should not drink yogurt.
When parents buy yogurt, they must carefully distinguish between "real and fake yogurt"! Let your child drink nutritious and beneficial yogurt!
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