Porridge for children: the first product of complementary foods

No one will argue that the ideal food forthe baby is breast milk. But by the end of the first six months of life in the mother's milk, nutrients, vitamins, fatty acids and a full range of trace elements are no longer sufficient for the growing needs of a growing child's body. The full development and growth of the child requires already and vegetable proteins. Therefore, the diet should be enriched with various kinds of complementary foods. Breastfeeding exclusively breastfed with mother's milk, the resolution of the 55th World Health Assembly (2002) recommends starting the lure from six months, and artificial ones can be from five.

Traditionally, porridges for children in most countriesare the first product of complementary foods, because they are similar in texture and taste to breastmilk and its artificial substitutes. Lure on the basis of cereals - a primary source of dietary fiber, carbohydrates, vegetable proteins, selenium, iron, fats, B vitamins, etc. for babies after six months. On the nutritional value of porridge for children The technology of grain processing and its chemical composition influence.

Answer the question about what kind of baby porridge is better, definitelyit is impossible. So, semolina, most often used by mothers to make the first meal of porridge, is rich in starch and vegetable protein, but it contains the least useful substances in comparison with other cereals. In barley and pearl barley, starch is the same, but much higher in vitamins and fiber. Buckwheat is the most valuable product from

cereals for children's nutrition. It contains a considerable amount of protein, PP vitamins and B group, and also necessary for the development of trace elements. In rice, the highest content of starch, protein and minerals is small, and the content of vitamins depends on the degree of grain purification. A corn porridge for children contains less starch, but it has more iron and protein. Record-holder in terms of content fiber, fat, vitamins, vegetable protein and trace elements - it's oatmeal.

More economical and affordable at homecook porridge for children directly from natural groats. But in the course of research in recent years, the shortcomings of such complementary foods have been identified: a shortage of a number of vitamins (groups B, E, A), iron, zinc. During the cooking of "home-made" porridge, the content of vitamin C decreases twofold, and the group B even more - up to 75%, than was initially contained in the grain. Therefore, do not completely exclude from the diet of children porridge industrial production.

Now there is a large number ofa variety of cereals. They can be monocomponent (from one type of cereal), polycomponent, dairy-free or on milk. To improve the taste and increase the nutritional value in some enter powders from natural vegetables, spicy greens and fruits. Issue and special gluten-free porridge for children, patients celiac disease, in which an allergy to all cereal products.

Among such an abundance it is easy to choose porridge for complementary feeding of both healthy and children with various pathologies of development, so that they grow strong and healthy.

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