Apple is sweet, sour and nutritious, and it is one of the fruits suitable for all ages.
Its nutritional value and medical value are very high. Every 100g of fresh apple meat contains sugar 15g, protein 0.2g, fat 0. 1g, crude fiber 0. 1g, potassium 10mg and potassium 0. 165438+. Carotene 0.08mg, vitamin b 1 0.0 1mg, vitamin B2 0.0 1mg, nicotinic acid 0. 1mg, and also contains nutrients such as zinc, sorbitol, citrinin and vitamin C, which is called "the first medicine of Dafu" by more and more people.
Many Americans regard apples as a necessity to lose weight, go on a diet one day a week and eat apples on this day, which is called "Apple Day".
It mainly contains carbohydrates, mainly sugar.
Chinese medicine believes that apples nourish the lungs; Has the effects of relieving summer-heat, stimulating appetite, sobering up and relieving diarrhea.
Modern medicine believes that it has a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of hypertension.
People who eat more apples are much less likely to catch a cold than those who don't eat or eat less apples.
Therefore, some scientists and doctors call apples "all-round healthy fruits" or "general practitioners".
Now the air pollution is more serious. Eating more apples can improve the respiratory system and lung function and protect the lungs from dust and smoke in the air.
Eight Benefits of Babies Eating Apples
American Reader's Digest magazine introduced 10 kinds of fruits which are most beneficial to health.
Among them, apple ranks first, because it is rich in fiber, which can supplement enough fiber to the human body, reduce the incidence of heart disease and lose weight.
After heating, apple puree is a good recipe for indigestion for children and the elderly.
Here are eight benefits of eating apples for babies:
1, smarter
Apple is rich in zinc, which is a component of many important enzymes in human body and an important element for promoting growth and development, especially for forming nucleic acids closely related to memory and protein. Eating apples often can enhance memory and have the effect of strengthening brain and improving intelligence.
Step 2 prevent rickets
Apple is rich in minerals and vitamins.
Babies often eat apples to prevent rickets.
3. Blood
Infants are prone to iron deficiency anemia, and iron can only be absorbed in the presence of vitamin C under acidic conditions, so eating apples has a good preventive effect on iron deficiency anemia in infants.
Step 4 relieve diarrhea
Apples can promote the health of digestive system and reduce diarrhea.
Step 5 prevent constipation
Boil apples and carrots in water, and then wash them with water. Baby's stool will become soft and smooth again.
6, maintain the skin
Apple is rich in magnesium, which can make skin rosy, shiny and elastic.
7. Clean your mouth
If you eat an apple within 15 minutes, the organic acids and fruit acids in the apple can kill bacteria in the mouth, thus protecting teeth from tooth decay and gingivitis.
8. Protect your heart
Apple fiber, pectin, antioxidant, etc. It can reduce bad cholesterol in the body and increase good cholesterol content, so eating one or two apples a day is not easy to get heart disease.
Apples also contain boron, a mineral that helps to maintain bone density and protect the heart from heart disease.
Precautions for baby to eat apples
1. Can babies drink fresh apple juice?
In recent years, it has been found that excessive intake of apple juice can lead to infantile diarrhea.
Infants and young children have immature digestive system, poor secretion function of salivary glands, and less secretion of gastric acid and digestive enzymes. If coupled with improper feeding, it is easy to cause diarrhea in infants.
Because apple juice contains fructose and sorbitol, fructose is absorbed slowly in the gastrointestinal tract, and sorbitol is absorbed more slowly, so babies can't fully absorb these two substances.
Therefore, when a large amount of apple juice is ingested, unabsorbed fructose and sorbitol are fermented and decomposed by intestinal bacteria, resulting in acid and gas, intestinal peristalsis and diarrhea.
In addition, a large intake of sorbitol will also affect intestinal osmotic pressure due to slow absorption, causing diarrhea.
Therefore, infants with diarrhea tendency should drink less or no apple juice to avoid causing diarrhea or aggravating diarrhea.
Infants with diarrhea caused by ingesting a large amount of apple juice should immediately stop eating easily fermented foods such as apple juice, so as to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and facilitate the recovery of the body.
2. Is the wax on the apple edible?
When many people eat apples without peeling, they often feel that the surface of apples is oily, like wax, so they are worried that this layer of wax will be harmful to their health. There are three main types of wax on the peel: there is a layer of fruit wax on the surface of apple itself, which is a lipid component and a plant protective layer formed on the surface of apple, which can effectively prevent external microorganisms and pesticides from invading the pulp and play a protective role; The wax on some high-grade apples is artificially added edible wax. This "artificial fruit wax" is actually a chitosan substance, which is mostly extracted from crustaceans such as crabs and shells. This substance itself is harmless to the body, and its main function is to keep fresh and prevent apples from rotting and deteriorating during long-distance transportation and long-term storage.
Removing this layer of wax is also very simple. Washing with hot water directly can remove this layer of artificial edible wax from the surface of apples.
What people are worried about is actually the third kind of wax-illegal hawkers wax fruits with industrial wax, and the mercury and lead contained in it may penetrate into the pulp through the peel, which will bring harm to the human body.
Therefore, when selecting waxed fruits, you can wipe the surface of the fruits with your hands or napkins. Don't buy it if you can erase the faint red. It's probably industrial wax.
Baby eats apple recipes daquan
First, apple rice noodle paste
Applicable: babies over 5 months old.
Ingredients: 1 apple, 2 tablespoons vegetable rice flour.
Production method:
1, wash fresh apples;
2. Cut the apple and steam it in a steamer;
3. Steamed apples are pitted and mashed into mud, and a small amount of boiling water and rice paste are mixed evenly.
4. Put it in the plate and put it into a smiling face.
Tip: leftover apples can be made into jam and other finished products, and then stored in the refrigerator.
Health function: The crude fiber in apples can make the baby's stool soft and easy to excrete.
At the same time, organic acids can * * * intestinal wall, increase peristalsis and have a laxative effect.
With vegetable rice flour, the effect will be doubled, which is very suitable for babies with bad stomach.
Second, apple and carrot juice.
Production method:
Just choose two carrots and 1 big apple, wash them, juice the carrots first, and then juice the apples.
Mix, stir and drink immediately.
When constipation is obvious, drink juice twice a day, 20 ml each time, without adding water.
After constipation improves, you can properly replenish water, but you can't heat the water, which will easily destroy the vitamins in the juice.
Health care efficacy: Carrots are rich in β-carotene, folic acid and vitamin C, while apples are rich in vitamin B, both of which are rich in dietary fiber.
Apple juice and carrot juice are few kinds of fruit and vegetable juices that can be mixed. Apple carrot juice is not only delicious, but also the best detoxification agent and body supplement, which can treat constipation in children.
Third, apple porridge
Ingredients: oatmeal -3 tablespoons, milk-1/4 cups, apple-1/6, carrot-1/3.
Method:
(1) Wash apples and carrots and wipe them with a chopping board.
(2) Put oatmeal and kneaded 1 tablespoon carrot into a pot, pour milk and 1/4 cups of water, and cook with slow fire.
(3) After boiling, add 2 tablespoons of kneaded apples until boiling.
Fourth, sweet and sour apple soup
Ingredients: a ripe apple, some rock sugar.
Methods: Apple was peeled and pitted, and smashed with a homogenizer. Add a little water and simmer on low heat until it is slightly transparent. Add less rock sugar to taste, and acid-free is appropriate.
Nutritional analysis: Apple is rich in zinc, which is a component of many important enzymes in human body and an important element for promoting growth and development, especially for nucleic acid and protein. Eating apples often can enhance memory and have the effect of strengthening brain and improving intelligence.
Five, applesauce pancakes
Ingredients: 1 cup oatmeal (not fast food); 2 cups of skim milk; 3 tablespoons sugar; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 3/4 cup of flour; 2 eggs; Natural applesauce
Method:
1. Soak oatmeal with skim milk in a large bowl 15 minutes.
2. Sift the sugar, soda and flour together and mix them into the oatmeal mixture.
Beat in the eggs, mix well, and let stand 15 minutes.
3. Heat the frying pan on medium heat and brush it with oil.
4. Use 1/2 cups, pour the batter into a frying pan to make round cakes, fry them on both sides, brush butter on the pancakes while cooking, and keep warm.
5. Put applesauce between two layers of pancakes and cut into wedges.
Nutritional analysis: Apple is rich in crude fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help the human body to discharge waste smoothly and reduce the harm of harmful substances to the skin.
Eating more apples can cure infantile diarrhea and has many benefits.
Six, apple sweet potato pie
Ingredients: flour, eggs, butter, salt, yeast, sesame, apple, almond, pistachio and honey.
Exercise:
1. crust: flour 100g, egg 1 piece, butter 30g, salt 2g, yeast 1g, sesame 1 spoon. Knead the dough, then let it stand for 30 minutes and ferment slightly.
2. Put the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour to prepare for invagination: 2 golden apples, almonds, pistachios, 1 spoonful of honey;
3. Roll the dough into pancakes;
4, spread into the baking tray, the baking tray can be thinly sprinkled with a layer of powder, so that it is easy to demould after baking;
5. Preheat the oven for 190 degrees, press another plate on it, and bake for 10 minutes first;
6. Take out, spread the cut apples on the crust and bake for 10 minute;
Seven, lotus root and apple ribs soup
Recipe ingredients: apples, ribs and lotus roots.
Production method:
1. Wash fresh ribs and lotus root and cut into small pieces. 2. Add cold water, ginger, onion, aniseed and a little vinegar and cook in a pressure cooker for 30-40 minutes. 3. Add the cut apples and cook for a few minutes.
Applicable people:
Health tips for babies over 0.5 years old +65438 Eat meat, apples, bones and soup together.
It can not only supplement high-quality protein, but also supplement minerals and vitamins such as calcium and phosphorus, enhance immunity, improve intelligence and strengthen brain.
Eight, apple salad
Suitable age: 8 months old baby.
Ingredients: 20g of apples, 2g of oranges and 5g of raisins.
5 grams of yogurt and 5 grams of honey.
Production steps:
1. Wash, peel and chop apples; Peel, core and chop orange petals; Soak raisins in warm water and chop them.
2. Put apples, oranges and raisins into a small bowl, add yogurt and honey, and mix well to feed.
Key points: when making noodles, the raw materials should be chopped and not big enough to adapt to the baby's chewing ability.
Nutritional analysis: this salad is beautiful, sweet and sour, rich in protein, carbohydrates, vitamin C, calcium and phosphorus; In addition, the contents of vitamins A, B 1, B2, nicotinic acid and iron are also high.
Has the effects of promoting digestion and strengthening spleen and stomach, and is especially suitable for infants with dyspepsia.
Selection and storage of apples
Apple has high nutritional value and medical value, and is called "the first medicine for gentlemen" by more and more people.
How to choose and store apples? Here are some practical skills for you!
Red Fuji:
1, see if there are concentric circles on the handle of the apple, because the sunshine is abundant and the apple is sweet and ripe;
2. See if there are any stripes on the apple, the more the better;
The redder the apple, the brighter it is.
Qin Guan Apple:
1, choose a symmetrical size (preferably medium);
2. Press the apple by hand, which is sweet and sour;
3, the color should be uniform.
Marshal Huang Apple:
1, choose yellow color, the more pockmarked, the better;
2, weigh by hand, the light is cotton, and the heavy is brittle.
Yellow banana apple:
1, the more pits, the better;
2, the color is green, slightly yellow is better.
Storage methods of family apples:
Common containers at home include jars, jars, altars, cartons and wooden cases, all of which can be used to store apples.
The tanks, cans and altars used must be washed and dried, and the inner walls of the tanks, cans and altars should be wiped with white wine. You can also put half a bottle of white wine in it (the dosage can be determined according to the storage capacity), and the bottle mouth is open.
After harvesting, put the apples in the shade for a few days, and then put them in pots, cans or jars in layers.
Spray white wine after filling, which can vary from 50- 150g depending on the storage capacity. Cover it with absorbent cotton, and then cover it with a plastic sheet to prevent the smell of alcohol. When eating apples, cover them with it, which can generally be kept for more than half a year.
The box for storing apples should be clean and tasteless, with two layers of paper at the bottom and around. Each apple should be wrapped in soft white paper and placed neatly in the box.
For ruby, red star, banana and other round apples, it is best to put them horizontally, while Guoguang, India and other varieties are flat and round, so that apples are under greater pressure.
The box is most suitable for inspection at 0-2℃ every other month, and some rotten fruits should be removed in time.