After the child grows up to 6 months, you can slowly add complementary foods other than breast milk or formula milk. At this time, because the baby's teething is not complete and the digestive system is not mature enough, the baby's complementary food usually starts with liquid or pasty food.

Many mothers want to supplement their children with vitamins as soon as possible. If the baby can't treat the fruit as a snack, she will squeeze the juice for the baby herself. But can drinking fruit juice really replace eating fruit and supplement vitamins for babies?

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants under 1 should not drink any juice.

In the past few years, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been advocating that infants under 6 months should not drink fruit juice. According to a statement published online in Pediatrics on May 26th, the American Academy of Pediatrics is extending the age limit of fruit juice fasting to 1 year.

The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that the nutritional value of fruit juice is far less than that of real fruit, because fruit can also provide dietary fiber and other nutrients. More seriously, if children develop the habit of drinking fruit juice instead of water from childhood, they may only want to drink sweet drinks when they grow up, which may lead to overweight and obesity.

/kloc-children over 0/year old can drink a small amount of juice.

According to the recommendation of American Academy of Pediatrics, the daily fruit intake of children aged 65,438+0-3 should not exceed 65,438+065,438+08ml, that of children aged 4-6 should not exceed 65,438+077ml, and that of children aged 7-65,438+08 should be limited below 237ml.

The nutritional value of the whole fruit is much higher than that of juice.

Steven Abrams, director of pediatrics at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the statement, said that fruit juice is not necessary or recommended for children of any age. Parents should encourage their children to eat more fruits instead of drinking fruit juice, which has irreplaceable nutritional value.

Finally, Pamela Anderson, a nutritionist at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New York, USA, reminded that when choosing juice for older children, it should be 100% pure juice instead of sugary bottled juice drinks or other drinks with juice content below 100%.