Main ingredients in baby porridge important

Parents should pay particular attention to the main ingredients in baby porridge

01/02/2013

The earliest from the fifth month of life, at the latest at the beginning of the seventh month of life, children should gradually get accustomed to complementary foods, according to the network Healthy in life. Many parents are - especially with their first child - not sure which porridge is suitable as a complementary food and which ingredients should be included. The question also arises as to whether self-cooked porridge or ready-made baby porridge from the supermarket meets the child's requirements.

According to the network Healthy in Life, parents should pay particular attention to the main ingredients when choosing complementary foods. We recommend a „Mash schedule“, Accordingly, vegetable-potato-meat-porridge should be started, followed by milk-cereal-porridge around one month later and cereal-fruit-porridge still another month later. When buying ready-made porridge, parents should make sure that the desired ingredients such as vegetables, potatoes or meat on the list of ingredients are at the top and otherwise as few other ingredients are listed, said the pediatrician in the network Healthy in life, Prof. Hildegard Przyrembel, to the news agency „dpa“. In this way, the parents make the right choice, according to Prof. Przyrembel.

Only one new ingredient per week as complementary food
For self-cooked baby porridge, the selection of the right ingredients also plays a special role, but here, too, according to the expert Serenity is announced. Although should „when preparing baby porridge, the quantities are in proportion, but the ingredients do not always have to be weighed exactly“, said Prof. Przyrembel. Thus, the actually eaten Breimenge vary from child to child. According to the network healthy in life, the introduction of complementary foods should not be rushed. Initially funded by the Federal Ministry of Food, the initiative initially recommends offering only one new ingredient every week.

Ingredients of baby porridge may vary
The parents should watch, „How your baby tolerates the new food and how it reacts to eating with the spoon“, advises the network on its website. If everything is normal when eating the mash with several ingredients, the baby can then be offered a new variation every three or four days, for example with a different type of vegetable. Basically both self-prepared and purchased complementary foods are, according to the experts for the necessary care of babies with all the important nutrients suitable, but from the point of view of the taste of the child recommends itself at least occasionally a self-cooked baby food. (Fp)

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