Cereals story

In many people\'s eyes, animal foods such as meat, eggs, milk and flour more nutritious food, such as classes, small grain than whole grains more nutritious, this is really do?

To babies smarter, healthier, mother to baby every day prepared foods such as meat, eggs, milk, even occasionally eat some rice and other staple foods, as well as precision fine, whole grains is a lot harder to trace. This really did more conducive to the health and growth of the baby? Does not. Each or every kind of food has its own unique and cannot be replaced by other food of nutritional value, which means that food there is no absolute good or bad-, each have their own nutrition, cereals cannot be replaced by other foods such as meat. Dietary guidelines provide for \"food and diverse, mainly cereals\" diet principles.

Exhaustive of cereals

Cereals actually means what? Grains of all kinds of food, collectively referred to as cereals. In corn, rice and wheat because of good taste and is often considered a small grain, corn, buckwheat, oat, millet, sorghum, beans, potatoes and other food for whole grains.

Cereal

Grains include rice (rice, glutinous rice, Indica rice), wheat, oats, buckwheat, corn, and sorghum. Their approximate nutritional composition, high levels of carbohydrates in cereals are the main source of human energy, which main b vitamins involved in energy metabolism and dietary fiber has a laxative, the role of regulating intestinal function, so the baby\'s health and growth are important.

Grain by grain husk, germ and endosperm in three parts. Valley namely bran bran, cellulose-containing mainly. Germ is rich in vitamins and minerals. Endosperm is the main part of the grains, starch and protein. In grain processing into flour in the process, mainly to remove the germ and Valley section, the rest of the endosperm part became a flour, so fine flour mills, the better, more loss of vitamins, minerals and fiber. If the baby eating cereal every day is too small or rice is too fine, can easily appear in b vitamins and lack of energy, showing tiredness, irritability, headache, loss of appetite, tongue numbness of the mouth, mouth ulcers, inflammatory map \' when severe can cause beriberi and pellagra, and dietary fiber intake is less prone to constipation.

Beans

Including soybeans (soya beans, black beans and green peas) and other pulses (peas, broad beans, mung bean, red bean, French bean, etc). Pulses high protein content \' and is rich in lysine, threonine, and other beneficial baby growth necessary for amino acids, and the lack of these amino acids are cereals. Also beans is also rich in minerals, trace elements and vitamins.

High protein nutritional value of beans than cereals, sugar-containing phytic acid, wood and the Soviet Union, raffinose and other antinutritional factors can interfere with the absorption of protein, zinc, calcium, iron and make intestinal flatulence. If heating, milling methods such as after processing into tofu, bean sprouts, bean, these anti-nutritional factor will be removed off. Therefore, when edible beans in baby food, to select products such as tofu, milk heated to boiling 3-5 minutes before consumption.

Sweet potato

Include sweet potato (also known as sweet potato, sweet potato, whatever), taro, potatoes (potato), rich in starch, dietary fiber, minerals and vitamins, the content of vitamins a and c higher than the carrots and fruit in General.

Grains of baby food

Dietary fiber in cereals rich in starch, and b vitamins are incomparable for other kinds of foods and alternative, which will ensure babies eat more cereals, daily activities, not only for the baby\'s growth and health is critical, but also for the cultivation of eating habits and physical health and lay a good foundation.

Health and 4-6 months after baby, breast milk and formula is the only baby food.

Baby birth 4-6 months later, as the mature and amylase secretion of the digestive system to gradually add cereals. 4-6 months baby food started to add the transition period \' should be the preferred rice, and wheat products compared to rice less causing allergic reactions. Cuisine dominated by cooking, rice, tofu, potatoes made into porridge and mud paste, facilitate the baby swallowing and digestion. In order to make nutrition a comprehensive balanced \' can add minced meat porridge, vegetable puree, fruit mud, flour and eggs and meat and bean dishes in 3~4:2:1 as appropriate. When you can put some small amount of vegetable oil, but do not add other seasonings such as salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, may harm the baby\'s taste development.

About 1 year old baby, approximation of the transition to mainly cereal food dietary pattern of adults. With the development of gastrointestinal tract and swallowing mature, made of meat, vegetables and cereals can be used with soft food, noodles, wonton, dumplings, baozi, and so on.

Cereals to delicious

Production of cereals does not have a fixed set of recipes. Mother mastered the principles of food selection and match, according to the specific circumstances of each baby, can give your baby makes a variety of delicacies.

Congee with egg yolk and bean curd

Raw material: 1 egg, tender bean curd 12, (small) m 12 \' vegetables (carrots, green leaf vegetables) 12.
Recipe: first egg and vegetable cooked \' yolks crush \' vegetables into mud standby; rice boiled with water \' shredded tofu into \' cooked to skilled, joined the broken yolk and mashed vegetables \' little Cook for a while.
Suitable for baby: 5-6 over months of infants.

Liver Potato porridge

Materials: large (small) 1~2 two rice or corn flour, 1 potato, chicken liver 12, vegetables (carrot, green leaf vegetables) 12.
Recipe: potatoes, chicken liver, cooked vegetables, mud into standby; from rice or corn flour and water, small fire to Cook,Then add the mashed potatoes and liver prepared mud, slightly boiled for a while.
Suitable for baby: 6-7 over months of infants.

Meat dishes with rice gruel

Materials: large (small) 1~2 two rice or corn flour, meat (pig, chicken and fish can) 12, green leafy vegetables 12.
Recipe: meat cooked, chopped, peeled NET Fishbone; wash vegetables, chopped standby; first congee with rice or corn flour boiled with water until eight or nine when joining broken dishes, and porridge cooked, then added minced meat cooking less after a few moments then.
Suitable for baby: 7-8 over months of infants.

Eight-treasure porridge

Ingredients: rice 12, millet 0.5 nun, digestibilities 12, 0.5 of mung bean, peanut, and small nuclear jujube and Walnut kernels, raisins.
Recipe: mung bean, peanut with water soak 2 hours to go, and then put it on the fire and cook until six or seven mature, accession to the remaining material, continue to boil until cooked black.
Suitable for baby: 2~3sui child care.

Patch porridge

Ingredients: wheat flour 22 \' 12 meat \' Greens 12.
Recipe: vegetable wash meat cooking, \' shredding; first adding a small amount of water in the flour mix, by hand into dumplings surface hardness, then with a Rolling pin Gan into dumpling skin thickness, slicing; water open skillet face, broken into food, 3-5 minutes, finally joining the minced meat, less Cook for a while.
Suitable for baby: 7-8 over months of infants.

TIPS
Cereals specially to mix baby select cereals should live on rice and wheat as the main \' regular matching beans, corn, oats, potatoes, \' to ensure the complementarity of nutrients.
Best cooking methods in order to avoid the loss of vitamins, when cooking method to be steamed, boiled, roasted, branded, frying damages to vitamins, in thermal insulation for a long time will also be a significant loss of vitamins in rice cooker.
Foods to eat dumplings stuffed with glutinous rice, glutinous rice food too sticky \' easy Digest \' try not to give the baby to eat.