Baby food: health experts inform bags about the disadvantages of porridges from Crushing
According to health experts, breast milk is the best nutrition for the Baby. Nevertheless, some mothers start very early with food for the young. As problematic is seen often bags baby porridge from so-called “Crushing”. Because this is not only usually much too sweet, but also brings other disadvantages for the child.
In the mother’s milk, everything you need is included
As the Foundation of children’s health, writes on her website, it’s really hard to feed a Baby in the first months of optimal. Finally, everything is in mother’s milk and also in bottles in there, what the child needs. Nature has handled it very useful: If the baby’s need for nutrients rises, is the offspring also will be able to more and more solid food. Can suck it from birth, spoons it needs to learn. Pureed or liquid foods products in plastic are the best way to bags, but not necessarily. Because the contents of such a “squeeze bag” according to the Foundation, often much too sweet. In addition, the child learns by the continued Sucking of the food until later to eat porridge from a spoon or pieces of food out of your Hand and eat can develop quirks.
Complementary foods should not replace breast milk entirely
As the experts explain, is hidden behind the term “complementary foods” of all sorts: For example, vegetables, fruit, potatoes, Butter, Oil, meat, Egg and cereals and the resulting pulps.
In short, everything that you feed the young at the end of the first half of the year, in addition to breast milk (or Infant formula).
However, the complementary foods is to complement the previously offered breast milk or baby food and not completely replace, stresses the Foundation of children’s health.
Even after the introduction of the first foods to meals children should be breastfed as long as mother and child want to and can.
Also, children who are already fed up with the vial, even after the introduction of porridge and a spoon of food to get your bottle.
Not too early and not too late
“Complementary foods should not start before the age of 17 weeks, so the of the 5. Life month and not later than 26 weeks, so at the beginning of the 7. Month of life to be introduced,“ explains the Chairman of the Foundation for children’s health, Professor Dr. Berthold Koletzko.
“In these weeks the tongue push reflex disappears in most babies, at the same time, the ability to carry a mush with the tongue in the throat and then swallow,” says metabolism expert from the University children’s hospital Munich, Germany, develops.
In this age period the child is always active. The first milk teeth come out.
The Baby moves a lot, followed with curiosity, what to eat, his parents and siblings at the family table, up to the spoon and food, and takes it in the mouth.
Also mother’s milk or bottle more often, to meet its increasing needs in nutrients and energy.
The Baby is like what the mother eats
Babies are usually suspicious, if they are to eating new foods. This Aversion, “Neophobia,” is a protection mechanism to preserve the child about to eat something, what gets him.
Preferably, a Baby eats, what eats also his mother, because this taste is familiar to him already from his mother’s womb and through the mother’s milk.
It is therefore not surprising that if a Baby refuses cooked carrots, because the mother never eats cooked carrots.
According to the Foundation, the period of time between 17 and 26 weeks is particularly favorable for the introduction of new flavors (or flavours), and solid textures.
Repeated Offering of various foods without coercion reduces the fear of the unknown food.
Studies have shown that the daily exchange of the offered fruits and vegetables increases the subsequent acceptance of vegetables and other healthy foods, such as meat and fish.
So the offspring is gradually accustomed to the diversity of food and the gradual Transition to the family diet, prepared.
Porridges should not be, or salted, sweetened
According to the experts, everything on the spoon is allowed, what tastes good to the Baby! The previously-collected warnings before an allergen-rich foods such as milk, eggs or fish have proven to be as useless.
The Avoid or the subsequent introduction of such foods provides the Foundation for children’s health no protection against allergies.
As a first baby food meal of a porridge made of vegetables, potatoes and meat, in order to provide the child with well-available iron and zinc from meat is suitable, for example.
“Pulps should be sweetened in any case, in addition to, or salted, to avoid a wrong programming of the child’s taste”, says Professor Berthold Koletzko.
“The porridge should taste the Baby, the adult”.
According to the professionals of the meat ingredient in the vegetable-potato-meat should be replaced porridge, occasionally, fatty fish (e.g. salmon).
There is evidence that consumption of fish may protect in the first year of life the child prior to the later development of allergic disease.
Cooking
The Foundation of children’s health would like to encourage parents expressly to cook for your Baby yourself! Glass of food and self-prepared pulps are equivalent Alternatives.
With both, you can supply a Baby with all the nutrients it needs. The industrially produced complementary foods meets all the legal requirements and also saves time and work.
On the other hand, the self-preparation has advantages: parents can decide the selection of the ingredients and a larger variety of flavours on offer.
As an edible oil for the self-production of foods is particularly rapeseed oil.
Quetschies – fast food for babies
In recent years, increasingly offered in squeeze pouches with pureed fruit preparations, and sometimes other ingredients to offer from the point of view of many parents in a comfortable approach.
After Unscrewing the lid the contents of the “Quetschies” may be pressed directly into the mouth of the baby or small child, or the child can drink the contents from the spout out of the eyes, or in the case of liquid products.
However, crushing are glass bag is often twice as expensive as conventional Fruit. In addition, you are in excess glucose levels in the most highly acid and with the further disadvantages.
According to the Foundation, many of the “Quetschies have” extremely a lot of calories, a very sweet taste and a totally unbalanced composition of nutrients with a much too high sugar content.
As a result, the risk for dental caries and Obesity increases. The majority of or even all the sugar content comes from the sugar of the fruit preparation, and not from added sugar.
Therefore, extreme sugar may products rich bear the inscription “no sugar added” if you want the extra sugar comes from concentrated fruit puree or juice.
“This may give parents the false impression that it would be a sugar-poor product,” warns Professor Berthold Koletzko.
“But it is not only the ‘added sugar’, but also of total sugar content is responsible for adverse health effects in the child,” said the expert.
Learning of eating with a spoon is more difficult
Another Problem: “If infants take baby food, mainly by Sucking from a bag, can be delayed thereby, the Learning of eating from a spoon, or more solid food pieces from the Hand and makes it difficult,” said Professor Koletzko.
Add to: “Explore the food with the lips, the tongue and the hands, and the Practice of chewing and biting will be adversely affected. This can cause the child to reject later more solid food like vegetables and fruit“.
Feeding with the spoon and the food out of your Hand, however, offers parents an excellent opportunity for communication, for mutual listening and Speaking with the child.
The Baby observes and learns what parents and siblings eat and is so excited to Try it.
Therefore, the Foundation of children’s advises health specifically eating pureed products from crushing baby food pouches: baby food should be fed with the spoon or by the Hand of the child and not from a plastic bag to be sucked.
Babies should drink water
The third porridge, the Baby also needs additional liquid, such as 200 milliliters per day.
Are suitable still water, with the addition of “baby food” or tap water, the Expire after a long time it is removed from the faucet and not sweetened teas.
Between nine and 15 months a child is developed to the extent that it learns by imitation, to drink from a Cup, eat with a spoon and bite into solid food.
With the introduction of bread, the porridge and milk and meals in the three main meals (Breakfast, lunch, dinner) and two snacks (morning, afternoon) of a family diet.
Caution the Foundation of children’s health recommends vegetables in the case of small solid foods, and in very hard or breakable Root.
This is because nuts, or raw root vegetables easily into the trachea, and should, therefore, only later on the dining plan.
The Foundation of children’s health recommends, to separate meals and game times. The food should also not be declared as a reward or gift.
And very important: No Smartphone and no television during meal! Also toys and books should not be a distraction during the meal. (ad)