I believe that many mothers are struggling with the “fancy variations” of baby’s complementary food, but do you realize: the “fancy complementary food” that you may have gone to great lengths to make for a week is actually the same ingredients? The nutritionist pointed out that the baby’s complementary food to diversify but not the same as you spend a lot of time “fancy complementary food”. Why promote the diversity of complementary foods We all know that nature has prepared a wealth of food for humans. Whether it’s vegetables, fruits, livestock, fish, or the most common grains, all provide a wide variety of nutrients for your baby’s growth. When it comes to nutrients, modern nutritionists have found more than 40 nutrients from natural foods that promote human health, distributed in a variety of foods, each of which is indispensable. But no one food can contain all the nutrients, and it is impossible to reach the amount needed by the body. Therefore, in the process of preparing a daily diet for your baby, as long as your baby is not allergic, you should provide as many ingredients as possible to obtain a more balanced nutrient profile. In a climate of food safety problems, a reasonable intake of each type of food, without favoring certain types, can also minimize the possible food risks and potential harm to the body. Diversification of complementary foods ≠ “fancy” complementary foods If a wide variety of foods is called diversification, how about fancy? As we know, the traditional Chinese food culture is so profound that the same ingredients can be used in many ways. In particular, rice and pasta have gained thousands of variations over a long period of time. The same bag of flour can be made into buns, steamed buns, cakes, rolls, bread, dumplings, noodles, wontons ……, but its nutritional value is still the same. The same egg can be made into omelet, egg custard, fried egg, fried egg, scrambled egg, pudding, cake …… but its nutritional value is still the same. This gives mothers an inspiration: the same ingredients, no matter how many variations, provide the same nutrition to the baby. And in the process of repeated processing and cooking, the nutrients are easily lost instead. Then it is easy to understand: colorful vegetable noodles, look good, but nutrition is not as good as a bowl of noodles plus hot a few leaves; cabbage and egg dumplings, nutrition may not be as good as eating an egg and a plate of fried cabbage. I believe that when mothers are in pursuit of the so-called “fancy”, there is a feeling of exhaustion. Because the “patterns” are endless, there is no time to finish learning. The time spent on flipping patterns is deducted from the time spent with your baby. When you give your baby the beautiful food that you have worked so hard to make, he will gladly eat it, but what if he refuses? It will certainly bring the mother a strong sense of frustration. In fact, this process, we lose not only time and patience, but also the nutrients that have slipped away. The beautiful pictures of food are certainly eye-catching and make mothers rushing to give their babies such beautiful food, but after all, food is for eating, not for looking at, and giving your baby more and more reasonable nutrition is better for your baby’s health than obsessing over making some beautifully shaped complementary food. We all know that the nutrition provided by non-vegetarian and vegetarian dishes is very different, for the baby’s daily diet, the main categories are as follows: dairy products (mainly provide calcium), staple foods (mainly provide carbohydrates), meat, eggs, aquatic products (mainly provide protein, fat and vitamins), vegetables and fruits (mainly provide vitamins and minerals), and finally There is also cooking oil (mainly provides essential fatty acids in fat). Therefore, it is a basic principle of diet to pay attention to the above categories of food for babies every day. For example, the staple food category, is it the white porridge made of rice? In fact, you can also add coarse grains and cereals, such as millet, brown rice, oats, mung beans, etc. more nutritious; can also consume flour products, such as noodles, buns, cakes, etc.; there are also some potatoes are also a good source of carbohydrates, such as sweet potatoes, purple potatoes, yams, etc. can replace part of the staple food. Then there are vegetables, which means green vegetables and cabbage? In fact, the nutritional value of root vegetables, leafy vegetables, and mushroom and algae vegetables all have relatively large differences. Different colors of vegetables can provide different nutrition, such as orange carrots, black fungus, green spinach, white mushrooms, etc., with each other more comprehensive nutrition.