Generally by the time the baby is 6 months old, it is necessary to add the first meal in life – complementary food. For the addition of complementary foods, I believe that many mothers are also difficult, in the end to the baby to eat what complementary food is nutritious, how to add is scientific? In fact, the baby’s first mouthful of complementary food is best fortified with iron rice powder. Many mothers provide their babies with other complementary foods that they think are very nutritious, like the following kinds of food, once added improperly, it is likely to cause malnutrition in babies. Rice soup / clear rice Rice soup / clear rice is considered by parents to be the omnipotent complementary food, baby “fire” to a bowl, diarrhea to a bowl and so on. Although this kind of supplemental food is easy to digest, but contains very few nutrients ah, in addition to starch in addition to water, there is a little protein and so on. Such feeding can make the baby produce a sense of satiety, thus affecting the intake of milk. The baby is in the accelerated period of growth and development, this feeding method is difficult to meet the baby’s nutritional needs, long time has passed, and even lead to baby malnutrition and growth and development. Suggestion: When the baby adapts to the rice flour, you can cook the rice into a thick porridge for the baby to eat. If you have already added a variety of complementary foods to the baby, you can add vegetables, pureed meat or egg yolks in the porridge to ensure balanced nutrition. Juice Parents always think that fruit juice contains VC is high, nutritional value, thinking that the baby does not like to drink water, let the baby drink freshly squeezed juice. In fact, the nutritional value of fruit juice is actually not high, the sugar index is very high, not only easy to lead to obesity in babies, but also lead to dental caries. Because in the process of juicing the original fruit contained in the nutritional destruction of few, leaving behind is a higher sugar content of the drink only. The American Academy of Pediatrics clearly indicated that infants under one year of age can not add fruit juice, more than 1 year old babies should limit the amount of fruit juice consumption. Suggestion: Eat fresh fruit directly. Evidence shows that even 100% pure fruit juice is not as nutritious as one fresh fruit. It not only replenishes nutrition, but also exercises baby’s chewing ability and saves parents a lot of work, why not! Vegetable water When the baby is sick or constipated, the doctor will recommend parents to add more dietary fiber to the baby’s food, such as vegetables and fruits. At this time, parents are worried about the baby’s digestion is not good, the vegetables into the hot water after boiling, after the color of the water has changed, let the baby drink warm. It is important to note that many parents only let their babies drink water and do not let them eat vegetables. Suggestion: What we usually suggest to let babies eat more vegetables is to eat the vegetables directly, not to drink the vegetable water. If the baby does not like to eat vegetables, parents can match the vegetables with other foods to make a cartoon pattern, or chopped into the porridge. Only really eat in order to ensure the intake of dietary fiber. Of course, the same as the above fruit juice, vegetable juice, although not so high in sugar, but still not as high as the nutritional value of eating vegetables directly. Honey Honey contains not only sugar, but also botulism, plus the baby’s digestive and immune system is not sound, so it is not recommended to give honey and honey water to babies under 1 year old. 1 year old babies should try to control the amount of honey intake. Suggestion: For babies over 6 months old, try to get into the habit of drinking plain water. Meat soup “nutrition are in the soup” must be this sentence are not unfamiliar, many parents also believe in this sentence, often will give the baby boiled some meat soup, let the baby drink. In fact, broth contains very few nutrients, most of them are still in the meat. In addition, if the soup is too long, it will lead to increased purine content in the soup, but not conducive to the growth and development of the baby. Suggestion: To baby nutrition, it is best to let the baby eat meat directly. We have had a popularization before, the baby in about 7 months can eat meat, only each stage of the meat to be processed into different forms only. Gradual changes from puree, meat foam, minced meat can not only help your baby to supplement iron and other nutrients, but also exercise your baby’s chewing and digestive ability. The healthy growth of the baby is the wish of every parent, do not step into the above kinds of complementary food, not only for the baby no nutrition, but will affect the baby’s development. In fact, there are times when parents can also be lazy, such as directly eating fruit, both without so much trouble, nutrition is okay!