Children’s learning to eat fruit

26th
OCT

Children’s learning to eat fruit

Posted by watertree under Baby

Sweet and delicious fruit has been widely welcomed the babies, parents, and because fruit is rich in vitamins and other nutrients to encourage the little ones to eat. Fruit of course, delicious, nutrient-rich, but not to eat on lots of other good, it also bears a lot of inside knowledge!

Selection of seasonal fruit

Selection of fruit varieties should be selected seasonal fresh fruit.

Fruit is now preservation methods become increasingly sophisticated

We often eat some off-season varieties of winter to eat watermelon in the summer is not anything uncommon. However, some fruits, such as apples and pears, nutrition, although the rich, but if stored for too long, got a bad nutrients will be lost.

Best practices: purchase of seasonal fruit, fruit should be preferred; every time you buy the quantity and do not too much to eat with the purchase as to prevent the rotten fruit, or stored for too long, reduce the nutritional content of fruit; pick and choose but also to select those fresh, surface gloss, not become moldy fruit.

The best time to eat fruit

Some mothers think that eating fruits after meals can contribute to food digestion, such thinking is wrong for adults may be for the growth and development of the baby being they are not suitable.

This is because there are many a number of fruit sugar substances, although they are easily absorbed by the small intestine, but was blocked in the stomach, it’s very easy to form bloating, but also may cause constipation. So please do not turn to the baby after a meal to eat fruit.

In addition, fasting is not the best time to eat the fruit. Baby’s stomach capacity is still relatively small, if consumed before a meal, it will occupy the space for the stomach affect the intake of meals.

Best practices: the timing of fruit between meals, such as waking up after a nap, eat an apple or orange.

Fruits should be affordable with the baby physique

This is very important, not all babies can eat fruit. Mother should pay attention to the selection and the baby’s body and physical condition affordable fruit.

For example, the physical side heat easily constipation baby, it is best to eat cold of fruits like pears, watermelons, bananas, kiwi fruit and so on, they can relieve inflammation.

If the baby’s body lacks vitamin A, vitamin C, then eat apricot, melon and citrus, this will give the body plenty of vitamin A and vitamin C.

Baby suffering from a cold, cough, you can add crystal sugar pears stewed with water to drink, because pears cold, Sheng Jin lungs, you can Qingfei heat; but if the baby diarrhea, it would be inappropriate Chili. For some overweight baby, my mother pay attention to controlling the intake of fruit, or the selection of those low-sugar fruit.

Best practice: understand their baby’s physical and fruit character, nutritional ingredients, as far as possible to the baby to eat fruit with the appropriate physical phase.

Not a substitute for fruits and vegetables

Some mothers think that nutrition is superior to fruits and vegetables, plus fruits taste good, kids are even more willing to accept, therefore, some do not like vegetables, baby, my mother often fruit instead of vegetables, think that eating vegetables can make up for losses caused by the body .

In fact, the practice of using fruit instead of vegetables is not science. Fruits and vegetables nutrition vary greatly, as compared with the vegetables and fruits in the inorganic salts and crude fiber content of less, not to the intestinal muscles to provide sufficient “power.” Babies do not eat vegetables, there is often a feeling of fullness, loss of appetite, lack of nutritional intake will affect the physical development.

Best practices: vegetables, fruits are not rejected out of hand.

Can not just eat fruit

Is not to eat more fruit the better, every day should not be too mixed varieties of fruit, each time the quantity of fruit must also be modest, a number of fruit sugar content is high, eat a lot of babies will not only result in loss of appetite, but also will affect the child’s digestive function and affect the uptake of other essential nutrients.

Other fruits can not be eaten with other foods. Such as persimmon and sweet potato, crab eating together, we will lump in the stomach to form insoluble children. Baby of light causing constipation, the worst case, these lumps can not be discharged from the body, it will remain in the stomach, resulting in baby stomach pain, vomiting and indigestion.

Best practices: are familiar with a variety of fruit characteristics. Eat the fruit no more than three, control the baby’s fruit intake.

Note that fruit cleaning method

Best practices: eat the fruit before the fruit should be cleaned and soaked in water for 30 minutes or soak for 20 minutes with dilute brine, and then cleansed by flowing water after eating; the best fruit can be peeled peeled, and some fruits use hair brush before eating clean and not because of lazy, casual cleaning.