Generally five-month-old babies are not recommended to add complementary foods.
It is generally recommended that babies add complementary foods at 6 months of age. Babies before 6 months of age have imperfect gastrointestinal tract function and weak digestive ability, which can easily lead to gastroenteritis and food allergies, so it is not recommended to add complementary foods too early.
6-month-old baby can start to add complementary foods, at first choose to contain fortified iron rice powder, can supplement iron, to prevent the baby from iron-deficiency anemia, from less to more, gradually increase the variety of food, every new food, a single food to add rice powder, continuous consumption of 2-3 days, to observe whether there is food allergy.
Infant stage within one year of age, still breast milk or formula as the main food source, complementary foods pay attention to reasonable collocation, diversification, no need to add additional sugar, salt flavoring.