Ginger, as a seasoning in the kitchen, is a must-have in every household kitchen. People like to add some ginger to enhance the freshness when cooking delicious food. But some families have a two-year-old child, and parents are worried that their child's spleen and stomach are weak and they cannot eat ginger, so they dare not put it in their dishes. Can a two-year-old child eat ginger?
If ginger is only used as a seasoning, two-year-old children can eat it. When cooking, adding some ginger powder will not affect the health of a two-year-old child. But if children are directly fed large slices of ginger, it will cause unnecessary burden on their gastrointestinal health. Therefore, parents should pay attention to giving moderate amounts of ginger to their two-year-old children and not easily use ginger to make folk remedies for them.
Ginger contains a substance called gingerol, which can promote gastrointestinal motility and improve digestive function. It is precisely because ginger contains gingerol that parents are advised not to give their children food containing ginger before bedtime, in order to avoid gingerol causing accelerated gastrointestinal motility at night and affecting the child's gastrointestinal health.
When cooking, parents don't need to deliberately avoid ginger. Giving two-year-old children some ginger in moderation is still beneficial for their health. Ginger has the effect of dispelling cold. When children have a cold or have gastrointestinal discomfort after catching a cold, drinking some ginger water in moderation can also help alleviate the cold and gastrointestinal discomfort.
