Complementary food

1, food diversity is important?

Yes. Added should give your child a variety of foods, such as: rice flour, fruits, vegetables, meat, to get a balanced diet, it is very important. Not only can add a variety of foods to children provides a variety of child growth required nutrients, can also increase the child\'s interest in eating, avoiding form a partial eclipse of habits.

2, why add complementary foods should be selected first when a single cereal?

World Health recommended infant cereal is the ideal first supplementary food. This is because a single cereal food not only has easy to digest and absorb, it is difficult to allergies, and other advantages, and cereals in the diet of adults in China occupies an important position in the structure. In addition, the ideal carrier of cereals are iron and other trace elements, can strengthen many infants lack of nutrients.

3, the order of complementary food is what?

(1) 4-6 months of infant complementary food order: first add the food cereals. Preferred is the strengthening of iron-powder, added plain rice flour 1-2 weeks later, plus a single fruit mud, vegetable puree, or baby-powder containing vegetables and fruits.

(2), 6-8 months of infant complementary food order: in adapting to a single infant after food grains and vegetables, add the appropriate mix of vegetables, fruit and egg yolk.

(3) 8-12 months of infant complementary food order: baby teeth in this phase, some soft, delicate baby solid foods can be added to the stage, promoting the development of the masticatory function. Usually add in chicken, beef or pork in baby food.

4, why the baby from the 4th month should begin adding rice noodles?

(1) add rice flour to add milk nutrient deficiencies in a timely manner, and milk containing liquid, easily belly rice flour for solid food. Baby fast growth requires more iron, and the baby in the womb of the iron in the 3-4 months after running out of health, and in breast milk and other milk with low iron content, and the amount of vitamin d is low. Therefore, add rice noodles in a timely manner, not enough to add milk, prevention and treatment of iron deficiency anemia and vitamin d deficiency rickets.

(2) add rice noodles in a timely manner, can exercise baby chewing ability to swallow solid food and gastrointestinal digestion, preparation for weaning. After the baby was born in the year, to complete this change, must be based on the baby\'s development, gradually changing the way food behavior and feeding. After a gradual process of adaptation, not only at the time of weaning food traits, were infant feeding way of suddenly changing psychological issues such as refused or cause digestive upsets.

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