"There are so many kinds of rice noodles, and the manufacturers are different. Advertising introduction is even more dazzling. How to choose rice noodles suitable for my baby? " Jia Jia Ma and a treasure mother are chanting together, and treasure mother is choosing rice noodles. "Yes, I also choose it for my baby. It's really a headache! " Ma Bao's heart is full of sadness.
Among all kinds of rice noodles, how to choose the right one for your baby? Recently, the bookworm mother has received many similar consultations from novice mothers. Such as: how to choose the right rice noodles? What are the criteria for purchasing rice noodles? How to see the quality of rice noodles? What should I do if I feel uncomfortable after adding rice noodles, and so on. To this end, I have compiled this article for parents' reference.
One: Do you know anything about baby rice noodles?
Baby rice noodles are mainly rice, as well as vegetables, fruits, eggs, meat and other ingredients. Contains vitamins such as vitamin A and vitamin D, some B vitamins, minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, and other trace elements. Baby rice flour is one of the best nutritional supplements in infancy.
When buying, you will find that the outer packaging of rice noodles is marked: the ideal food for babies is breast milk, and the product can be eaten in the case of insufficient or no breast milk; When babies over 6 months old eat this product, they should be supplemented with complementary food. In other words, rice flour is for breast milk or infant formula to meet nutritional needs and when the baby is weaned. Rice noodles for weaned babies are marked with the words "weaning formula food" or "weaning supplementary food". Parents should pay more attention when shopping.
Two: So, what are the selection criteria for rice noodles? Generally, choose the right rice flour for your baby according to these two standards.
● Choose rice noodles according to your baby's age.
Baby rice noodles are suitable for babies under 1 year. But there is not only one kind of rice noodles, and the ingredients are different. This is also the reason why most of the rice noodles mentioned above are labeled as suitable for eating people. This is because, in infancy, the baby's growth and development is very fast, and the nutrition needed every month will be different.
For example, a baby of 4~6 months needs some foods that are good for digestion, such as vegetables and fruits. Then the rice noodles suitable for this month are mainly to strengthen this aspect. After 6 months, the baby can eat more and more food and need more and more nutrition. At this time, rice noodles are more nutritious and have more tastes and types.
● Choose rice noodles according to your baby's needs.
Although rice flour is rich in nutrition, different babies have different situations and different nutritional needs, so not every kind of rice flour can be suitable for all babies. Choose rice noodles according to your baby's own nutritional needs.
When choosing rice noodles for your baby, you should pay attention to the labels in the nutrition composition table on the outer packaging of rice noodles. The table of nutrients usually indicates the content of basic nutrients, such as calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates and other added nutrients.
Parents should look carefully and choose the variety suitable for their baby. For example, iodine, which helps to promote baby's development and intellectual development, is called "smart element". If your baby needs iodine supplementation, you can choose rice flour with high iodine content. One thing must be remembered: only choose the right one, not the expensive one.
Three: writing here, novice mothers may ask, is there any trick to buy rice noodles? Really! Novice mothers can choose according to these four tricks.
Look at the shape
Good quality rice noodles are generally very fine, even not caked, with the color and fragrance of rice and a little taste of other additives. After being brewed or cooked with proper amount of warm water, it is fully stirred and lubricated into a paste.
② Look at the scale of production.
When choosing rice noodles for your baby, try to choose the products of brand enterprises with large production scale and good quality of products and services. The quality of rice noodles produced by such manufacturers is relatively guaranteed.
③ Look at the packaging.
Check the name, address, production date, shelf life, etc. Mark it on the outer packaging of rice noodles, and choose products with complete labels and logos. No product, never choose to give it to your baby.
4 look at the nutrients.
See if the labels in the nutrient composition table are complete and the content is reasonable. The table of nutrients should indicate basic nutrients such as calories, protein, fat and carbohydrates, vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin D, some B vitamins, trace elements such as calcium, iron, zinc and phosphorus, and other added nutrients.
According to the national standard "Iron content in baby rice flour" GB 10769-20 10 "Infant cereal supplementary food", the iron content should be 0.25 ~ 0.50 mg per 100 kilojoule rice flour.
Therefore, when parents choose rice noodles for their babies, they should pay attention to the nutrient composition table on the package and try to choose ones with high iron content, so that the iron supplement effect is better.
Four: How to correctly add rice noodles to your baby?
When do you start adding rice noodles? The new infant feeding report adopted by the World Health Organization advocates exclusive breastfeeding from birth to 6 months, and complementary food should be added to breastfeeding after 6 months, and breastfeeding should preferably be maintained until 1 year. But specific to each baby, when to start adding complementary food, parents should look at the baby's health, growth and growth needs, not entirely determined by age. Generally speaking, it cannot be earlier than 4 months at the earliest and later than 7 months at the latest.
Baby rice noodles are rich in nutrition, delicate in texture, easy to feed and swallow, and light in taste, which is the best and most suitable kind of complementary food in the early days. Generally, add rice noodles to your baby in the following ways.
1. Start with a single kind of nutritious rice flour.
First, add a single kind of first-stage infant nutrition rice flour to the baby. Nutrition experts suggest that complementary food should be added. In order to supplement iron, the first complementary food should be iron-fortified baby rice noodles. After iron intake, there are few ways to excrete it, so as long as complementary food is added normally, the baby will generally not be short of iron and anemia will not occur.
After trying the first kind of rice flour, add another taste of the first stage rice flour for 3~5 days. Every time you add a new flavor of food to your baby, it will be a few days apart from the last time.
2. First, stir the rice flour into a thin paste.
When you first add rice noodles, you can make a spoonful of rice noodles with warm milk or warm boiled water in a bowl, and use more water to make rice noodles into a thin paste. The thin paste state can make the speed of rice noodles drop by drop very slow, and it should be as thick as possible in the later stage to increase the nutritional density.
3. From eating less to eating more.
The first meal starts with a spoonful of baby rice noodles, and when the baby is familiar with the feeling of swallowing solid food, it can be increased to 4~ 5 spoonfuls or more rice noodles. Some babies have just come into contact with complementary food and have a good appetite. You may still want to eat after feeding a certain amount, but you can't give it any more, so as to avoid overeating, slow digestion and reduce the amount of milk you eat. A treasure mother once told me that it was the first time that she fed rice noodles to her baby. The baby loved it so much that she fed a full bowl at a time. As a result, the baby was so full that she couldn't eat well the next day.
When the baby spits out food, the mother needs to wait patiently.
It is a brand-new experience for a baby to try a new food for the first time. He may not swallow or spit food at once. At this time, mother can wait for a while and then continue to try. Sometimes, babies may have to try many times to eat these fresh foods.
It was the same when my baby started adding rice noodles. I often vomit after feeding. Later, I did this: before feeding the complementary food, the adult sat opposite the baby, chewed it in his mouth, and encouraged the baby to imitate it, then tried to put the spoon between her lips and rub it left and right to see if she would accept it. If the baby opens his mouth, gently push the complementary food and put it on the back of his tongue to help the baby swallow. In this way, the baby also quickly mastered the swallowing skills.
5. How long can I eat rice noodles?
A treasure mother asked, how long can the baby eat rice noodles? There is no specific time limit for babies to eat rice noodles. After adapting to rice flour, it can be gradually increased to rice flour+vegetable puree, rice flour+fruit puree and so on. Generally, when the baby's teeth grow out, he can eat porridge and noodles, so he can stop eating rice noodles.
Five: How to brew baby nutritious rice noodles correctly? At the beginning, you can brew it in the following way.
Material: 1 spoon (about 5g) of infant nutrition rice flour.
Exercise:
1. Put the rice noodles in a cup or a small bowl.
2. Add an appropriate amount of warm water or warm milk at about 70 degrees (if milk powder containing probiotics is added, the water temperature should be lower than 40 degrees).
3. While pouring water, slowly stir the rice noodles clockwise (remember to add water and stir at the same time) to make the rice noodles fully contact with warm water.
4. Let it stand for 30 seconds, stir with a spoon or chopsticks, and make it into a paste. The ideal rice paste is: scoop it up with a spoon and pour it like condensed milk. Drops are too thin, and drops are too thick if they are difficult.
Feeding tips: You can feed 1 time in the morning when the baby is in good condition. After the first addition, you can feed 1 teaspoon, and then slowly increase it to 3 teaspoons. 1~2 months later, it can be gradually increased to half a bowl, and complementary food can replace 1 ton of milk. After feeding 1~2 weeks, adults can basically master the law of baby eating complementary food.
Six: What should I do if my baby feels unwell after adding rice noodles?
1. The baby is constipated after eating complementary food.
Breast-fed babies rarely encounter constipation, especially breast-fed babies, because breast milk contains soluble cellulose oligosaccharides, which can promote defecation. After starting to eat complementary food, the baby's stomach has a new "guest". At first, it was basically fine muddy food. Although easy to digest, but lack of cellulose and food residue, easy to cause constipation.
It doesn't matter if you are slightly constipated, because the baby will consume enough milk at this time, which will soon relieve constipation. Coupled with other foods such as vegetables and fruits, the constipation problem will not last.
If the baby's stool is dry and it is difficult to defecate, stop using complementary food 1 week at the beginning of adding complementary food, let the digestive tract rest, and then add complementary food after the stool is normal; If you have constipation after eating complementary food for a while, you should supply more vegetables appropriately.
2. The baby has diarrhea after eating complementary food
If the baby has diarrhea after eating complementary food, you can observe the mild situation 1~2 days, because the baby has a process of accepting new food, and mild diarrhea is normal and will get better soon. If the baby's diarrhea is serious, or it doesn't get better, you need to take the baby to see a doctor.
3. The baby is allergic to complementary food.
Because the baby's intestinal barrier function is not fully developed, the local immune level of gastrointestinal tract is low, and some substances in food, usually protein, enter the body, which is particularly easy to cause allergies.
Allergy is an overreaction of the immune system to natural harmless substances, which is not a big problem. As long as you pay attention to prevention during feeding, once the allergy is treated immediately, there will be no serious consequences. When the baby is older and the immune system is more mature, most of them will not happen again.