I don't know if mothers have found such a problem
Broccoli is used in the production of complementary foods
The appearance rate is super high
Vegetable puree, finger food, hair cake
It's all there
Recently we received a request for help from a mother
Babies are only willing to eat broccoli
I don't eat any other vegetables
What is the reason for this?
Today we're going to share some about:
Those things about adding broccoli to complementary foods
Hope to help mom and dad
Find a way to add complementary foods that works best for you
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I don't know if you have considered such a question: why there are so many types of vegetables in the mainland, but when adding complementary food to the baby, the first thing that comes to mind when mentioning green vegetables is broccoli?
Is it okay to eat cauliflower without broccoli? At least they look the same, just in different colors.
This has to start with the BLW self-feeding method that is highly recommended by mothers. My daughter was born in 2016, and at that time there were no complementary food supplements on the Internet, and there was very little talk of BLW feeding on its own. However, with the development of the Internet and self-media, more and more mothers have begun to share their parenting experience and experience on the Internet, among which many self-media have begun to share some foreign parenting methods with domestic mothers, including BLW, baby-led weaning), that is, babies eat independently.
If you want to talk about the principle of adding complementary food, our country also has recommendations, and each time the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" is released, including infant and young child feeding guidelines, but these guidelines only have big principles and are not very operable. As a result, these foreign complementary food recommendations immediately spread rapidly among parents. Later, just like there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, these foreign suggestions have been interpreted and interpreted by experts and self-media people, coupled with the influence of the marketing strategies of baby food manufacturers, and a variety of local opinions and recommendations have been formed.
Therefore, most of the ingredients used in the early stage of complementary food are based on Western dietary habits, such as broccoli for vegetables, avocado for fruits or supplementary foods, and cod for seafood.
Of course, this is not to say that these cannot be introduced as ingredients in the early stage of complementary food addition, but under the influence of this more Western-style dietary habit of complementary food addition suggestions, a large number of high-quality and low-cost vegetables and fruits in the mainland have been ignored by parents.
When we decide what food to eat, we are not only driven by hunger and hormones, but also by habits, religion, environment, etc. For example, the "taste of mother" in everyone's mouth, the food customs of ethnic minorities, and simpler examples, Yunnan people prefer to eat all kinds of mushrooms, Sichuan people mostly like to eat spicy food, and so on. Although it is true that there is a situation of "hunger does not choose to eat", in today's extremely rich material, children have little opportunity to experience extreme hunger and eat everything.
There was a study in which three groups of toddlers were given three different types of tofu, one was regular tofu, another was sweetened tofu, and one was salted tofu. Regardless of their genetics, they will quickly fall in love with the kind of tofu they eat. Experiments have shown that our tastes are not genetically determined, but are very susceptible and very susceptible throughout life.
This has also been verified by me. I used to be a spicy and unpleasant person, and I liked to look for good food everywhere to taste, but after a month of being forced to eat strictly because of a broken bone, my taste became very, very light, and my mother's food was still the same as usual, and I ate it so salty that I couldn't go to the restaurant for a long time, because the restaurant food was too salty and salty for me, and it was too greasy, and I couldn't eat it at all.
Therefore, it is very important to let your child try as many different types of food as possible during the complementary food addition stage. Babies are only willing to eat food with a familiar taste, and are always vigilant about unfamiliar food. The more types of ingredients children try in the complementary food addition stage, the lower the risk of picky eating and picky eating in the later stage.
Now back to the question, what should I do if my baby only likes to eat broccoli and doesn't like to eat other vegetables?
Why do babies only like to eat broccoli? Because when parents provide vegetables, maybe broccoli is not the only green vegetable, but it must be the green vegetable that children eat the most.
For example, in the following 6-month-old complementary food addition plan, only 2 kinds of green vegetables, spinach and broccoli were added in 30 days.
When the age of 7 months or 8 months or even older, parents think that the baby can eat independently, and broccoli is the "standard"
Why is broccoli "standard"?
First of all, broccoli is easy to grasp.
One of the most important suggestions for self-feeding is "finger food", which many parents literally mean to be finger-shaped food, so broccoli has become the first choice. Of course, broccoli has hardness, and the long stems are easier for children to grasp.
Because when leafy greens are made into finger food, it looks like this:
The soft vegetable leaves, which are caught in the hands of the baby, are like this:
For babies who are just beginning to learn how to eat independently, they will not be able to accurately put such leaves into their mouths when they are not skilled enough to handle this kind of food.
In comparison, the same green, vegetable, more branched, finger-like broccoli seems more suitable for babies.
Secondly, cooked or steamed broccoli has no toughness, only soft or crispy, which is easier to bite and easier for babies to swallow.
This is one of the most overlooked details by parents, and it is also the biggest misunderstanding of the addition of complementary food.
Most parents only pay attention to the results of the baby's eating - how much they eat, ignoring the process of the baby's eating - how to eat, which causes the swallowing-chewing transition to be very bad in the process of adding complementary food, and it is very easy to fall into what the baby likes to eat and what to do, and what the baby can eat.
But what the baby loves to eat, is it suitable for him?
In the early stage of the addition of complementary food, parents are worried that the food is not easy to digest, and most of the ingredients are steamed for a long time, and the broccoli that looks like a flower becomes very soft after steaming, and the baby can easily crush it.
The original intention of parents is to use broccoli to let the baby practice self-eating and exercise chewing ability. But broccoli is soft, brittle and has no toughness, plus the flowers on the stem are small clusters by small clusters, the baby can easily crush them, and the crushed broccoli becomes small particles that are easier to swallow, so it is OK to use broccoli to exercise the ability to eat independently, but it is said that the effect of exercising chewing ability is not as good as green leafy vegetables.
For example, this 9-month-old baby's pre- and post-meal comparison on the Internet
It can be seen that the last thing left of the child is a broccoli stalk.
Because of the toughness of green leafy vegetables, the baby must first bite off with his front teeth after entering, if there are no teeth, and parents do not process the green leafy vegetables into small pieces, it will become the following: bite constantly, eat can not eat, swallow can not swallow, have to hold in the mouth
Some parents say that babies only like to eat broccoli because broccoli is soft enough, crispy enough, not tough, and easy to process into small particles and swallow directly. The baby must have the problem of swallowing too much and chewing poorly, so if other vegetables are not soft enough, rotten enough, or delicate enough, they will not eat, not to mention the green leafy vegetables that need to be chewed hard to chew and swallow.
In addition, blind guess parents are in accordance with the advice on the Internet, the initial addition of complementary food is to mix vegetable puree and fruit puree in rice noodles to feed, the child only needs to swallow, now the baby is older, add finger food, separate vegetables and rice noodles, and find that the baby only eats broccoli and does not eat vegetables.
This is due to the fact that the swallowing-chewing transition is not good. Below is a complementary food made by our students, using broccoli