Vegetables and fruits in the diet of children under one year

Vegetables are introduced into the child's diet after the 4th month of his life. They are rich in vitamins and minerals, and fiber needed for good working of the digestive tract.

Cooked vegetables should be used during the day. While cooking the vegetables lose their vitamins. To keep losses to a minimum, washed vegetables do not leave in water; boil them in a little salted water, peel.

For mashing choose only the most beautiful and smooth vegetables, without cracks and spots. To start weaning your baby can vegetable puree of carrot, zucchini, cauliflower (these products do not contain coarse fiber).

The first feeding of the child

Cook vegetables should be steamed or in a double boiler on the stove products lose their value, vaporizing useful vitamins. If you are using a stove - cover the vegetables only boiled water - so the release of nutrients is minimal.

Do not add anything extra in the first days of feeding. Only a month later you can add olive oil or sunflower oil. Use a blender to break down vegetables or fray them through a sieve.

Mashed potatoes and carrots for a child under one year

Under one year children's foods make carrots, potatoes, pumpkin, zucchini, cauliflower. Avoid tomatoes, cucumbers, greens, cabbage, beets. At first, let the child puree from one kind of vegetable, then vegetables can be mixed (for example, potatoes and carrots; pumpkin and potatoes).

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Of the fruit at a very early age children are better to eat apples. Puree cook the apples of local origin. Class must be sour-sweet, with green skin. Apple is cleared from the skin, is released from the core, and then rubbed on a fine grater. The float should be plastic or stainless steel, otherwise the potatoes will oxidize and lose vitamin C. Cook puree just before eating.

After Apple for taste and beneficial qualities should puree the pears. Then you can give the baby fruit delicacy of banana, peach, prunes.

Bananas have very little vitamins, so they are rather good as a filler for fruit puree. Well digested and are perceived by the child only perfectly ripe bananas (on their skin has brown spots). Green bananas contain a huge amount of indigestible starch which, when ripe, is converted into sugar.

If you give 5-month old baby bananas, then cook them in the skins (even if they are very ripe) in the oven or in a saucepan of boiling water for a few min. Then remove the skin, chop the banana puree with a fork. Add the puree a little boiling water to make it more liquid.

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