Today is the Lantern Festival, there must be many people's families will prepare Tangyuan bar, many parents in order to let the children feel the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival, will also give the baby Tangyuan, so children can eat Tangyuan? What are the precautions and taboos for children to eat Tangyuan?
The first thing to say is that children under 3 years old are not recommended to eat Tangyuan!
It's risky for babies under 3 years old to eat Tangyuan!
1. Hard to digest
The outer skin of Tangyuan is usually glutinous rice flour, and glutinous rice contains more starch, high viscosity and is difficult to digest. But the baby's digestion ability is weak, after eating easily appears the dyspepsia.
2. Choking easily
Baby's esophagus is relatively thin, swallowing reflex is not fully developed, so cooked dumplings are easy to block the esophagus, resulting in swallowing difficulties.
And before the age of three, the baby's chewing ability is poor. Some nuts such as peanut stuffing in Tangyuan are easy to choke if they are not fully ground, or even may accidentally choke into the trachea and block the respiratory tract.
Children over 3 years old should pay attention to Tangyuan!
If children over 3 years old have good digestion ability, they can taste delicious Tangyuan in the Lantern Festival, but there are still a lot to pay attention to!
1. Avoid eating too much
As has been said above, it is not recommended to eat dumplings for babies within 3 years old, but even for babies over 3 years old, it is only recommended to eat one or two stuffed dumplings, with a maximum of 3-4.
Because the heat of four sesame Tangyuan is equal to the heat of a bowl of rice, and children's digestive function is weak, eating too much is easy to lead to dyspepsia, and may cause the baby to choke seriously or even suffocate when eating.
Of course, if you can make small dumplings without filling for your baby at home, the calories will be much lower. It doesn't matter if you eat more properly.
2. Avoid eating when full
Because Tangyuan is not easy to digest, it is necessary to avoid eating when the baby is full. If the baby eats Tangyuan, it is necessary to appropriately reduce the main food intake of the day, and remember that after eating, more activities can help digestion and avoid over fullness!
3. Avoid eating at night
If you eat Tangyuan at night or before you go to bed, because it is difficult to digest, the food in your stomach that has not been digested will flow back to the esophagus.
Therefore, it's best to arrange the time for children to eat Tangyuan in the morning. At noon, they can eat some easy to digest food such as porridge and noodles. With the activity consumption of one day, it's not easy to have indigestion.
But if you've eaten Tangyuan in the evening, remember to help your child knead his stomach clockwise to promote digestion.
4. Avoid overheating or cooling
Many people like to eat hot dumplings just out of the pot, but in fact, the heat dissipation of dumplings is slow, and the filling of dumplings is often higher than the skin temperature, so if the child is too anxious, it is easy to burn if he bites the dumplings!
In order to avoid burns, parents should remember to tell their children not to eat big, can be divided into small pieces, eat slowly!
In addition, the glutinous rice flour will be more sticky and difficult to digest after it becomes cold, which will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, so it's better to eat it when it's already cold and hot!
5. Avoid complex fillings
Now some dumplings on the market will use fruit filling or coarse grain, chocolate filling, etc. to make the filling complex and diverse. But these complex fillings often contain flavors and other additives, so it is not recommended to buy.
Some Tangyuan looks colorful, but it's not a natural masterpiece, but the color is applied behind the scenes, so it's better to avoid the colorful Tangyuan, which makes people have a big appetite.
In addition, if you buy frozen products, do not choose products with ice or ice slag, because ice or ice slag indicates that the storage temperature is unstable, which is easy to cause product quality changes.