Puree for Crumbs. What Products Can Feed The Kids?

Sometime juice for infant’s mom did it: grated apple or a carrot squeezed through cheesecloth...

Now the racks of baby food in the shops occupy a decent area. You cannot take the time and do not spoil your hands. But is there any reason to trust these products?

No "adult" food!

Kid with a piece of sausage instead of nipples - previously it was normal. A family friend is proud to announce that their pipsqueak already eats soup with might and main, considering this fact is evidence that the child is developing well. Now, on the contrary - the majority of mothers are trying to prepare kids special meal - not the one that the rest of the house.

Doctors are pleased to note a positive trend, as it indicates an increase in our level of health literacy. After all, the "adult" food (not even with such a bright flavor and composition, as the same sausage) can cause a child digestive disorders and allergic reactions.

The fact that children's digestive system is still immature. She is very labile, and the slightest unbalanced intake of nutrients can result in the failure of its regulation, disruption of immune function. It is clear that as they grow older, these problems will gradually disappear. But in the first two years of the child's diet really need to closely monitor and feed it to those products that he needed to give them as much as needed, and even in a certain ratio.

No sharp, acidic, luxury foods with common table! No fizzy drinks and fatty foods! A roast to exclude up to high school - only boiled, stewed and baked.

Refrigerator is optional

Let's go back to the store - to the shelves of baby food. Here juices - fruit and vegetable puree - in addition to fruit and vegetable meat, meat and vegetable, fish, fish and vegetable, and dairy products, cereals, grains ... Is there anything that should be in the children's diet.

But a lot is stored without refrigeration. "Can there be such products are safe for children?" - A natural question many moms.

"There are, of course, baby foods, which must be kept in the fridge - milk, sour milk. However, juices, cereals, mashed potatoes in closed cartons do not necessarily need to be refrigerated - explains Igor Kon, director of child nutrition Institute of Nutrition, Doctor Of., Professor. - The technological process, which includes aseptic filling, sterilization container and hermetically sealed, maintains the beneficial properties of the product and without refrigeration. "

Requirements for Process and sanitation, raw materials and packaging for companies - manufacturers of baby food are very strict. Raw material is tested on a lot of different toxins and impurities, because it is important to rule out the presence of toxic elements - even in small amounts.

"Given that the child's defenses lowered, we need to protect it from the so-called contaminants - contaminants products", - adds Igor Kon.

And with all this rigidity, he said, the studies that are conducted in the Institute of Nutrition, the deviations from the requirement to identify rare.

"Nationality" in the baby food is not important - good and bad can be as foreign products, as well as ours. Most importantly, buying food crumbs, pay attention to the expiration date and the composition of the product and be sure to exclude products containing ingredients that a child does not fit: to cause allergic or other adverse reaction.

That fell with the rain?

But maybe, baby food in the shops - it is for lazy mums and home-cooked juices and purees better than packaged in cans and cardboard products businesses?

"Unfortunately, there is no guarantee of safety home cooked food - is responsible moms Igor Kon. - Even if the apples are collected on the site. But what they nitrates, which fell with the rain that fell in the soil at a nearby site? Unknown. Maybe homemade applesauce and will taste better, but here's a useful - not a fact. "

Moreover, we should not be wary of products of industrial production and, in particular, to their packaging. According to the professor of the Institute of Nutrition, the use of such products will ensure the proper grinding and the right consistency, and the lack of salt and spices. Home most of the mothers did add a little salt in the mashed potatoes, and kids do not need it - their taste is not spoiled by any salt or sugar.