Babies 4-6 months old are able to get enough iron from breast milk.
Babies aged 6-12 months need 11 mg of iron per day, and breast milk contains far less iron than the baby needs every day. Therefore, in addition to eating breast milk, babies before the age of one should also add some high-speed rail supplementary foods to prevent the baby from suffering from iron deficiency anemia.
Iron deficiency is extremely harmful to the baby, which will lead to anemia, loss of appetite, indigestion, low immunity, reduced activity, slow growth and development.
According to the "Reference Intake of Dietary Nutrients for Chinese Residents", it is recommended that babies under 6 months to 1 year old consume 10 mg of iron per day.
In the early stage of adding complementary foods to the baby, the delicate, nutritious, well-digested and absorbed rice noodles have become the best choice for many mothers, and it is also one of the important sources of iron for infants and young children.
Therefore, mothers must carefully check when choosing complementary rice noodles for their babies to see what iron content and iron are contained in rice noodles.
Let's take a look at how much iron content some of the rice noodles on the market are, and how to choose high-speed rail rice noodles for the baby
When choosing rice noodles, Bao Ma must pay attention to the choice of divalent iron rice flour, that is, ferrous fumarate. Because some rice flour is added to the trivalent iron, but the trivalent iron body can not be directly and effectively absorbed, need to be combined with the appropriate amount of vitamin C, into the body under the action of stomach acid reduced to divalent iron, the human body can effectively absorb.
The content of divalent iron is high, and the effect of iron supplementation is good. Baby's first bite of complementary food, Bao Mom must choose carefully! At the same time, mothers can also eat more fruits or vegetables rich in vitamin C for their babies to promote iron absorption!