What rice porridge is nutritious?
① Understand the nutritional density of food.
Nutritional density of whole (solid) food >: nutritional density of decomposed (liquid) food; Nutritional density of coarse grains >: Nutritional density of flour and rice.
② Analysis
According to the formula of nutrient density, we can know. Semi-liquid foods such as rice soup, porridge and porridge, after cooking the ingredients, are no more nutritious than giving the baby white rice with vegetables and meat.
In addition, many families are used to buying well-made rice to cook porridge for their babies, but according to the formula of nutritional density, the more well-made food, the lower the nutritional density.
Therefore, cooking porridge with millet, brown rice and corn is more nutritious than cooking porridge with polished rice.
Even coarse grain porridge has limited nutrition.
Traditionally, rice porridge is easy to digest and babies absorb nutrients more easily. But even coarse-grain rice porridge only contains more vitamins and minerals than polished rice, and its more components are just carbohydrates.
In addition, the nutrients necessary for the baby's growth, such as. Calcium, iron, zinc, high-quality protein, multivitamins, etc. , with little or no content.
It may be the only porridge suitable for babies.
As can be seen from the above, simple rice porridge is really not a nutritious food for babies, and it is not recommended for babies to eat it for a long time.
However, there are exceptions to everything. When the baby is unwell, such as fever, diarrhea and poor appetite, give the baby some light porridge, which is good for digestion and can also replenish water.
Families can add chopped vegetable leaves or make pumpkin porridge to increase nutrition and taste, but avoid forced feeding. When the baby is sick, the gastrointestinal function will be weakened, which will be beneficial.
The following two categories are recommended by her as a reference for nutrition porridge's production.
1) miscellaneous grains porridge
We know that simple rice porridge has low nutrition, and if beans and miscellaneous grains are added, the nutrition will be better.
Recommend your family to try oatmeal millet porridge. Oat contains more soluble fiber than rice 10 times, and is also rich in vitamins, trace element calcium and other nutrients needed by human body, which is very economical and convenient.
2) Porridge with minced meat
Clean shrimp can be used, and dried minced pork, minced fish and minced beef can also be added. Meat itself is an essential complementary food for babies, rich in iron and high-quality protein.
If it is fish and shrimp, it can also promote the baby's brain development, and its high-quality protein can enhance the baby's immunity; Moreover, shrimp skin also has a calming effect, which is also helpful for the development of the baby's nervous system.
We can draw a conclusion about the baby eating porridge. Simple vegetarian porridge lacks nutrition, but it is also a good food to supplement energy when the baby is unwell, but it is still not recommended to give the baby more food.
To be a nutrition porridge, you must enrich the ingredients used in porridge and try to choose high-quality and nutritious food.