4hw.org: we all know that eating more roughage is good for your health, but your baby's digestive system is not fully developed. Do you want to eat roughage when you are just weaned? Let's have a look!
Children can eat coarse food, which not only helps to balance nutrition, prevent "three highs" and some cancers, but also helps to cultivate good eating habits. According to the Chinese people's dietary guidelines 2016 issued by the Chinese society of nutrition, 50-150 grams of whole grains (including coarse grains, whole grains, brown rice and beans) should be consumed per person per day, which is applicable to children and adults over 2 years old. Even infants under 2 years old (except those who are exclusively breastfed for 6 months) can choose coarse grains as supplementary food.
Compared with the refined grains such as white rice and steamed bread, coarse grains (whole grains) contain more nutrients, such as protein, B vitamins and minerals such as calcium, iron and zinc, which are very important for children's growth and development. Therefore, it is harmless to replace some refined grains with coarse grains. Generally, adults should eat more than 1 / 3 of the total amount of staple food every day, and the proportion of children is almost or higher.
Some parents worry that eating coarse food will affect children's digestion and absorption. In fact, as long as processed and cooked correctly, coarse grains are very suitable for young children, such as millet porridge, oatmeal porridge, miscellaneous grain porridge, miscellaneous bean porridge, two rice (millet + rice), black rice (black rice + rice), two flour steamed bread (corn flour + white flour, buckwheat + white flour), whole wheat steamed bread, whole wheat noodles, etc.