Babies can eat yam as a complementary food.
Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and soluble fiber, which not only increases satiety, but also promotes digestion and absorption. Yam also contains a lot of starch, protein, B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, glucose, crude protein amino acids and other substances, which is a good product for invigorating spleen and lung, replenishing qi and nourishing essence, eliminating dampness and consolidating kidney, and is also a good complementary food for infants.
When can the baby add yam?
Generally, a baby can add a small amount of yam after 6 months. At this time, the baby's digestive function is not very sound, so yam can't be directly given to the baby, and it needs to be treated to avoid indigestion. For example, it can be made into yam mud, yam porridge, or yam and bones cooked together for the baby to eat.
What are the benefits of baby eating yam? Strengthen the spleen and stomach and promote digestion.
Yam is a kind of food for both medicine and food. Both men, women and children, whether spleen deficiency or stomach deficiency can be eaten, and can treat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and cough due to lung deficiency. Yam is one of the good choices for baby to add complementary food. Proper amount of yam is beneficial to the baby's digestion and absorption.
strengthen body physique
Yam is rich in protein and vitamins, which can enhance physical fitness. Especially in hot summer, giving yam to babies who have no appetite can not only increase their appetite, but also promote their health and prevent them from getting fat.
Improve your baby's memory
Amylase in yam can hydrolyze starch and convert it into glucose to supply energy for the brain, which has the function of strengthening the brain; Yam is also rich in choline box lecithin, which can improve people's memory.
Take care of the baby's skin.
Yam has the functions of anti-oxidation, anti-aging and moisturizing the skin. The baby's skin is tender and smooth. Eating yam can nourish the skin and keep it lubricated and not dry for a long time.
Other special functions
Copper ions and connective tissue in yam are beneficial to human development and can treat vascular diseases. The calcium in yam can not only treat children's diarrhea, chilblain, enuresis, indigestion and other symptoms, but also have a good effect on calcium deficiency, muscle injury, tooth loss, stubbornness and looseness.
The baby food supplement recipe recommends yam porridge.
Materials: yam 100g, millet 100g, and proper amount of water.
Practice: Wash the yam, cut it into thin slices and put it in the pot, then wash the millet and put it in the pot with water. After the fire boils, turn to low heat and cook slowly until it is porridge-like. You can give it to the baby several times.
Milk yam mud
Ingredients: one yam and half a cup of milk.
Practice: Wash and peel the yam first, then slice it, put it on the steamer, then add water to the rice cooker, and put the steamer and yam together in the pot for 20 minutes. Then take out the cooked yam slices, let them cool, and put them into food preservation bags. Then use a rolling pin to grind it into mud, put the yam mud into a small bowl, pour half a cup of milk, and steam it in a steamer for 10 minute.
Yam apple puree
Prepare ingredients: yam 100g, apple 50g.
1, fresh yam (yam) peeled and cut into small pieces, apple peeled and cut into small pieces.
2. All materials should be steamed by a food supplement machine or a steamer.
3. Put the steamed material into a cooking machine or stir it into a paste with a stirring rod.
Nutrition tips:
Yam is a very good food with the same origin of medicine and food, which can strengthen spleen and qi, enhance digestion function and stimulate appetite. Apples are also very suitable for vitamin-rich babies.
Jujube yam mud
Prepare ingredients: 300g iron stick yam, 8 red dates, 3 tablespoons whipped cream.
1, yam is washed and steamed, peeled for later use, and red dates are washed and pitted.
2. Put it into a cooking machine, add 3 tablespoons of light cream, or if not, you can change it into milk and mash it.
3. Put the mashed yam into a bowl and eat it.
Nutrition tips:
If the baby is 7-8 months old, you can try it. It can be used as a daily health meal to regulate the spleen and stomach, but don't give children too much at a time, at most twice a week.
Carrot yam mud
Prepare ingredients: carrots and yam.
1. Wash carrots and yam, peel, slice and steam.
2. After steaming, add a little boiling water and stir it into mud.
3. Add a proper amount of baby rice noodles and mix well.
Nutrition tips:
Carrots are delicate in meat, crisp and tender in texture, with special sweetness, and rich in carotene, vitamin C and B vitamins. Yam contains amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances, which is beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach. Therefore, carrot and yam paste is a kind of vegetable paste which is very beneficial to baby's health.
Yam wheat paste
Ingredients: yam 1 10g, 3 spoonfuls of cereal, and appropriate amount of water.
Practice: Wash and peel the yam, cut it into small dices, and steam it in the pot until it is soft and cooked. Then add a proper amount of water to soak the cereal, add the cooked and soft yam to the soaked cereal, put them together in a blender, and beat them into a semi-muddy paste, and stir them evenly.
Matters needing attention in adding yam to babies
1. Don't give the baby germinated yam and yam with a cross section like rusty iron to avoid food poisoning. Fresh yam will not germinate, and the meat in the cross section should be white.
2. Don't give the baby raw yam, because raw yam contains certain toxins, and the baby may feel unwell after eating it.
3. When adding yam to your baby as a complementary food, it is best to cook it and not fry it. Because the baby's gastrointestinal function is not perfect enough, fried food will not only affect the baby's appetite, but also easily lead to symptoms such as excessive internal heat and indigestion.
4. Don't give it to babies who are allergic to yam. If the baby is allergic to yam, eating yam is prone to allergic symptoms such as redness, diarrhea, indigestion, sore throat and asthma.
5. Babies with dry stools should not be eaten. Because yam has astringent effect, it is easy for a baby with dry stool to get angry when eating yam.
6. The amount of yam should be moderate, not too much. Yam is a high starch food, which is easy to cause satiety. Excessive consumption will lead to flatulence and discomfort, and it is easy to get angry.