Most babies start adding complementary foods at six months, and it is generally recommended to start with iron-fortified rice flour. There are flakes and powders of rice flour sold in the market, so moms and dads are confused as to how to buy it for their babies. Which is better, flakes or powder? Today we will popularize it for you. Rice flour as a supplemental cereal powder for infants and young children, containing carbohydrates, proteins and other nutrients, and easy to brew and easy to digest, so it is often the first step for the baby to step on the complementary food additions. In terms of the shape of rice flour, there are two broad types of complementary rice flour: powder and flakes. So what is the difference between the two? First, the taste 1, to the baby to add complementary foods can not be forced to add, to the baby is willing to accept it. Want to make it easier for the baby to accept the complementary food that is unfamiliar to him, the first thing to have a good taste. 2, the baby to add complementary foods before eating are fluid food, like breast milk, infant formula, fluid food on the baby’s swallowing function requires less. Rice flour is a kind of burnt food, the baby just contact, more or less there is not adapted. 3, in order to be able to make the baby easier to adapt to and accept the new food, rice flour in the texture should be as fine and smooth as possible, easy to swallow. Powdered rice flour powder particles are much finer than flakes of rice flour, so more delicate than flakes, eat up the texture is more slippery, easier to be swallowed by the baby’s weak function to accept. Second, the nutritional value of flake rice flour than powdered rice flour higher nutritional value from the nutritional value, due to their different production processes, resulting in the processing of rice in the production process, the preservation of the nutrients there are differences. Powdered rice flour: using puffing and drying method, the first high-temperature and high-pressure rice baking, puffing and then crushed into powder, and then dry mix to add nutrients and flavor substances. This process is simple, the cost is lower than the former, but high-pressure puffing will destroy the structure of the rice grains, high temperature is also prone to cause the loss of nutrients, nutritional value is not as convenient as the flake rice flour. Flake rice flour: Flake rice flour is the use of wet drying process, through the first soaked rice, pulping, dosing, and then roller drying, crushing, slicing and other processes produced. Flake rice flour because it is soaking rice, pulping, dosing in the first, and finally made of flakes, so it is more uniform distribution of nutrient mix. In addition, since the surface area of flaked rice flour in contact with air is smaller, it can reduce the loss of nutrients, and it is also easier to preserve and can reduce oxidation during storage. On the addition of rice flour small common sense 1, to use a spoon to feed the baby to eat rice flour Sucking milk and eating supplemental food are two different ways of swallowing. Eating burnt food is the focus of learning for babies who have just added complementary foods. Babies have to learn to use their tongue to bring the food to the pharynx and then swallow it. 2. How to add rice flour to baby for the first time? The first time you add rice flour to your baby, it is recommended to add it between the two milks in the morning. Even if there is any discomfort after eating it, you can still go to the doctor in the afternoon. Mix two spoons of rice flour each time, make it into a thin burnt, and feed your baby two or three spoons. If there is no allergy or other discomfort, the next day can be appropriate to increase the amount. 3.Can I add other foods while adding rice flour? The first time to add to the baby, still to pure rice flour is good, the baby adapted to the baby, can gradually add egg yolk puree, vegetable puree, lean meat, fish puree, pig liver puree, chicken liver puree and other iron-rich and easily absorbed food, can be directly mixed into the rice flour. 4. How many times a day does a 6-month-old baby eat rice flour? After 6 months, add a complementary food in the morning, and then add a meal of rice flour at around 6 o’clock in the evening (i.e. more than 6 o’clock, the time of the general dinner), and still a big bottle of milk at 9 o’clock, so that the baby is very full, and can sleep well at night. Rice flour is treated as a staple meal, after feeding rice flour is also every 3 hours and then breastfeeding. 5.What should I pay attention to after adding rice flour to my baby? Pay attention to your baby’s stool. Generally add complementary foods after the amount of stool will be a little more, the shape will begin to form, because it is just added so to give the baby’s little belly has a process of adaptation, slowly he will become regular, do not worry. If diarrhea occurs, we should consider whether it is caused by complementary foods, if necessary, see a doctor.