For the normal development of the child must be a varied diet, and the basis of the power of childhood make porridge. Baby cereal different from ordinary more delicate texture and high in nutrients: they are often specially enriched with vitamins and trace elements.

Each age its cereal

Adults are porridges in different ways: if the rice is very popular around the world, other grains are used relatively infrequently (although a lot depends on national traditions). In the children's diet of porridge is almost always present. Porridge - one of the first products that try growing up baby.

As a rule, familiarity with cereals occur after administration in the diet of fruit and vegetable purees, but possible options. For example, some kids that are poorly gaining weight, pediatricians recommend first offer is porridge, and only then - mashed vegetables.

The earliest clover for crumbs - very soft, almost liquid. But the child grows, it acquires a complete set of teeth, and give him porridge has other - more compact, suitable to their chew. At older ages, most prefer to have crisp cereal, including with various additives.

For the little ones

If you try to feed the baby "adult" porridge, nothing good will come of it: like the food is too rough for the crumbs. At all times the porridge for kids were prepared from crushed, crushed cereal, or rub through a sieve after cooking, turning into a liquid puree. And the most popular in those days was semolina, which is quite gentle and without additional processing.

That all changed when the production of ready-soluble cereals for kids. Worries young mothers immediately became smaller: the need to sort out the rump, wash it, grind in a coffee grinder and cook disappeared. Enough was only ready to dissolve the powder with water or milk.

Ready (instant) oatmeal children have many advantages over conventional prepared yourself:

• Delicate consistency of porridge is ideal for very young children;
• Such porridge save time;
• They are stored for a long time;
• Instant oatmeal is not necessary to boil;
• Kashi different additives allow to diversify the diet;
• Typically, these cereals enriched with vitamins and minerals;
• Production of cereals is automated, it ensures the sterility of the product.

Of course, there have instant cereals and disadvantages. Firstly, the price of such products is not comparable with the price of conventional cereals. Secondly, many ready to use cereals contain in their composition the sugar, without which in baby food Baby food - what to feed the baby?   it is quite possible (and often necessary) to do.

Yet pediatricians recommend that babies fed porridge is ready. Such porridge not only saves time mothers, but also allow the child to provide him with all necessary nutrients without risk to health.

The procedure for inclusion of cereals in the diet

Popular once semolina is today considered one of the least valuable for children. First thing in the diet crumbs introduced dairy and gluten-free cereals, which are easily digested. This rice, buckwheat and corn. Most of these nutritious cereals - buckwheat, corn has the lowest value, but it can be used to make the diet more varied crumbs.

First cereals should not contain any additives - fruit, vegetables, salt, sugars. Later, when the baby gets used to the conventional monocomponent porridge, it can be giving and more complex dishes, such as buckwheat or rice with an apple with apricot. But cereal with potential allergens such as honey The benefits of honey: tasty recovery   and chocolate, it is better to postpone to a later age.

Introduce solid foods The lure: a spoon first adult food   little by little: we must begin with a spoon gruel for breakfast. Subsequently portion increases, and the porridge becomes thicker. After eight months of the baby can begin to give porridge, barley, rye, millet porridge and multizlakovuyu. After a year comes the turn of semolina, which up to this time to give is not recommended because it is believed that decoy interferes with calcium absorption.

After one and a half or two years, you can gradually accustom the child to present "adult" porridges. At this age, the baby is already quite cope with their chewing, so ready to grind cereals and cereal no longer needed. But cereals should be washed thoroughly, as often they are not sufficiently clear, and to touch, to free from debris. From instant cereals gradually be abandoned, although sometimes (for example, after an illness) they can give and preschool children - harm will not do, if instantons cereal in the diet did not prevail.

Please include in the diet of baby milk porridge semi, then comes the turn crumbly. Best of all from an early age to teach kids to porridge with vegetables or fruit, but the sugar abuse is not recommended.

Kashi for preschoolers

Some children like porridge and happy to eat it, while others reject these foods. But, according to pediatricians, cereals must include in the diet of preschoolers. Many physicians believe that an adult does not damage include regularly in their menu cereals.

If your baby is eating cereal with the usual reluctance, conventional recipes can be improved by adding, for example, cereal fruit. Such supplements only enhance the nutritional value of food, will make it more tasty, delicious and beautiful.

The easiest way to cook porridge with apple. Fruit just rubbed on a grater and add to the already almost finished porridge (with milk or water). It is also possible to add to porridges pears, apricots, plums, peaches and other soft fruit. You can not boil the fruit, and add in the porridge ready: so they will retain all of the vitamins and give the dish a particularly pleasing taste. For example, a very good cereal with bananas or fresh berries.

You can also add to the porridge vegetables (such as carrots or zucchini), steamed or dried fruit (raisins well washed, dried apricots, prunes). Some cereals are good with grated cheese or even cheese.

Maria Bykov

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