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Mar 15, 2011

Baby\'s best nutrition library--eggs

Eggs are most familiar and common ingredients in our table, to nutritious, affordable, easy to absorb, cooking various advantages, many MOM to baby food material of choice.


However, both as \"dishes\" or \"nutrient source\", as the eggs is between \"meat\", \"element\", between the nutritional characteristics, its element components, the matching principle, cooking, edible components have different stress way.


Question 1: nutritional components of eggs contain what?


Protein and methionine--not only with quality protein in eggs, also particularly rich in methionine content. In General, two egg protein content of roughly equal to 32 fish, its proportion of amino acids in proteins for human physiological needs, digestibility and utilization as high as 98%.


Fats-data display, contains fat 11.6 g per 100 g egg, to unsaturated fatty acids than are emulsified state exists on the egg yolk, easily digested, absorbed.


--Egg vitamins and trace elements in iron, calcium, phosphorus, and high content of vitamin a, vitamin b. Among them, iron and calcium are hematopoietic and necessities of the long bones; genistein on growth and development of the nervous system and lecithin, egg is a great help; other micro-nutrients such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, vitamin d, e content is very rich, will help to enhance the body\'s metabolism and immune function.


Question 2: good or egg yolk proteins well?


Contains high quality proteins in the egg yolk and protein, but there are large differences on other nutrients: proteins are rich in ovalbumin, and apart from vitellin in egg yolk, also contains rich and fat and micro-nutrients, so older people often say that higher nutritional value of egg yolk. But when the phenomenon occurs when the baby is allergic to eggs, mother will usually stop feeding with egg, in fact, cause the baby mainly egg protein allergy, just avoid eating egg white, can be generally progressive desensitization.


Based on the superiority of the egg yolk and nutrition, usually 4 months babies aged ~1 only eat egg yolks, starting from the original one-fourth egg yolk, with gradually increased to 1~1.5 months of age, to be encouraged only after 1 year old to eat egg.


Question 3: would you eat more eggs?


Eggs are a popular food, but how many, how to eat still eat particular about, its components and cooking method is the part of many mothers often make mistakes.


For babies, eggs not to eat, the more the better, because the baby is very delicate fragile digestive organs in the body, when when excessive intake of protein, will cause a strong irritant to stomach, leading to malabsorption, indigestion.


From cooking way,, white water Cook egg can maximum to save eggs in the of nutrition components, but is difficult absorption; fried, and fried, way cooking out of eggs delicious, but nutrition loss large, more greasy; steamed eggs Shi nutrition save better, taste tender sliding, helps baby absorption; raw eggs or boiling water rushed eggs is most bad of edible way, because eggs in the of bacteria and parasites eggs cannot full was hot died, easy caused diarrhea and parasites disease. Therefore, when babies eat eggs to regular, second cooked food and steamed eggs as well, so that digestion and absorption.


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