Since ancient times, Chinese and foreign nutrition, fish is considered to be the best brain ingredients. The various types of nutritional value of fish are very high, parents, from the beginning of the baby to add meat supplements, you can feed your baby fish, then, which fish is more conducive to the nutritional needs of babies and digestion and absorption? Here are a few types of fish that are suitable for young children for parents to eat. Marine fish or freshwater fish? Fish is a delicate protein, easily absorbed by the body, and children are in the developmental stage, the body needs more protein, it is indeed suitable to supplement by eating more fish. But specific to freshwater fish or saltwater fish is good, it should be said that each has its own advantages and disadvantages. The DHA (commonly known as “brain gold”) content in seawater fish is high, which is very important for improving memory and thinking skills, but its oil content is also high, individual children’s digestive function is not fully developed, easy to cause diarrhea and other indigestion symptoms. Freshwater fish has less oil and fat content, but higher refined protein content, which is easy to digest and absorb. Only, freshwater fish is usually fine, small, difficult to remove clean, easy to get stuck in the child, in general, 1 year old and above is suitable to eat. Recommendations Striped bass, yellowtail and salmon are perfect for children, and sea bass and eel are also good. Scallop: DHA and polyunsaturated fatty acid EPA content is higher than freshwater fish, plus scallop is rich in lecithin, more brain tonic function. Moreover, scallops taste delicious and have few small thorns, which can reduce the risk of fish thorns stuck in the throat. Yellow croaker: Yellow croaker is a very suitable fish for children to eat in summer. Yellow croaker is rich in nutrition, fresh fish is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine, etc., and the fish tissue is soft, more easily digested and absorbed by children. In addition, the flesh of yellow croaker is garlic-shaped, no broken spines, suitable for children to chew. Salmon: Salmon is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which can promote fetal and child development. It is also rich in vitamins A, B, D and E, as well as minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium and phosphorus. Its flesh is tender, smooth and brightly colored, making it ideal for children. What to pay attention to when selecting fish When selecting fish, you should pay attention to: the flesh should be elastic, the gills are light red or bright red, the eyes are slightly convex and clear in black and white, the appearance is complete, the scales are not shed, and there is no fishy smell. Fear of fish spines stuck in the baby’s mother can choose: tilapia, silverfish, snowfish, mackerel, catfish, yellow croaker, flounder, horse-face fish, etc.. There are almost no small spines in the flesh of these fish. When eating scallops, remove the spines on both sides, and only the large spines attached to the vertebrae in the middle will be left, which is also good to pick. When eating sea bass, crucian carp, silver carp, fathead fish and wuchang fish, you can let your baby eat the flesh of the belly of the fish, there are no small spines, so you can give it to your baby. Cooking method It is recommended that parents should preferably use steam, boiling and stewing methods, but not frying, baking and pan-frying methods. You can add vegetables as a side dish when making fish for your child to increase the taste and balance the nutrition. When stewing fish, you may want to match with winter melon, mushrooms, radish, tofu and so on. But be careful, the taste should not be too salty, not to add spicy and irritating seasonings, chicken and MSG should also be put less. In the clinic found that many parents only give their children fish soup not meat. In fact, the nutrition of fish soup are in the fish, the correct way to eat is to eat meat and drink soup. Make fish into fish balls This way of eating is safer, lighter, and tasty, no matter what kind of fish can be done. Specific method: chop the fish finely, add egg white, salt and monosodium glutamate to make a paste. Add water to the pot and boil, squeeze the fish paste into balls and cook them one by one in the pot, then add a little salt and chopped green onion. The best way to make use of fish soup simmered noodles Fish soup simmered noodles, for babies after seven or eight months, this is one of the best foods. 1, use two fresh crucian carp, open, clean and fry slightly in hot oil. 2, cool water to cook the soup, you can add a little wine to remove the fishy freshness, add a little salt and oil, do not put soy sauce, to ensure that the soup is fresh and white, stew until the soup is white. 3, filtered with fine gauze, to get fish soup. 4.Boil water, cook the noodles, and fish them up after they are cooked. 5: Boil water again, put the noodles into it, boil for a moment and then fish it up. The reason for boiling again is to remove the small amount of alkali contained in the noodles. 6: Put the fish stock into a clean pot, and cook the noodles as well. 7, add the right amount of oil, salt, vegetables (you can also add minced meat), simmer the noodles, and you can serve it to your child. In addition to simmering noodles, the mother can also directly give the baby fish soup, or fish soup mixed with rice noodles, fish soup mixed with mashed potatoes, fish soup mixed with mashed vegetables, etc. feed the baby. Fish soup is delicious and can stimulate baby’s appetite, making him/her happily accept complementary food and gradually transition to solid food. Fish soup also contains soluble nutrients such as protein and fat. Mothers who make fish soup can use carp. Carp is very common, relatively cheap, tasty, high nutritional value, although it has many spines, but it is safe to take the soup by filtering it with gauze. Cooking fresh fish with less spines Although fish soup is delicious, it is still not enough to give your baby only fish soup, because most of the nutrition is in the fish meat. To cook delicious fish for your baby, you should know how to select fish with more meat and fewer spines. For example: black fish, sea bass, eel, grass carp, striped bass, mackerel, etc. Ingredients: 1 bream or 500 grams of scallops Seasoning: 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tbsp wine, ginger, green onion, 1 tbsp cooking oil. Method: 1: Remove the scales and internal organs from the fish, wash the fish, and cut the fish body into slashes or pieces. 2: Place fish in a porcelain dish, mix with salt, wine, sugar and ginger, cover with plastic wrap, place on high power for 3 minutes, then on medium power for 3 minutes to heat. 3.Take out, sprinkle with minced green onion, cooked oil, can be. 4, choose the fish belly part of the fish to feed the baby. Oops, fish thorns Although you choose less thorny fish for your baby to eat, you may still be worried about a small thorn or two left in the fish. Then, you can go further to remove the spines: put the fish in clean gauze, squeeze the fish with a spoon through the gauze, and if there are spines, they will penetrate the gauze and the mother can pull them out. If you squeeze and pinch with your hand, be careful not to let the fish prick the mother’s hand. In fact, even if the baby’s mouth is really poked by a small fish prick, mom and dad should not be too anxious. Drinking vinegar basically does not work to soften fish spines and fish bones. The acidity of vinegar is weak and cannot soften the fish spike, let alone dissolve it. If the mother or father cannot remove the fish spike and the part embedded in the fish spike is still painful and red after 48 hours. Then, the injured baby should be taken to the hospital and ask the doctor to treat the wound. Fish soup and fish taste delicious, but there is always a small danger in eating fish. Tell your baby to be careful with fish, but not to develop a fear of food. Moms and dads please remember that even if your baby has been stuck or stabbed by fish, you should still encourage your baby to eat more fish.