Many parents love their children and consider their nutrition and health carefully. They will find ways to provide their babies with the best and most nutritious food. Actually, babies can only eat formula before six months old, and can only eat complementary foods after that. So, what is the best vegetable to add to the first type of complementary food for babies?
What is the first vegetable added to complementary foods
1. If you want to add complementary foods to your baby, it is recommended to start with root foods. It is better to add potatoes or carrots first, slice and steam them, and then grind them into a paste for your baby to add. Always start with carrot puree and apple puree.
2. Ordinary green leafy vegetables are fine, especially spinach puree which is easier to handle and has a delicious taste. In addition, pumpkins, potatoes, carrots, and sweet potatoes are all good choices and easy to make. If you want to save trouble, buy a complementary food processor to make vegetable puree, and try not to eat coarse fiber vegetables.
What to pay attention to when adding complementary foods to babies
The baby's complementary food is added with sufficient breast milk. After 6 months, the baby will eat Rice noodles, fruit, egg yolk, and vegetable puree in a small amount. It can be added from one kind of food to another. Each kind of food can be added for 3 to 5 days. When healthy, do not add it when sick. Feed it with a spoon. What he has learned to eat should still be provided to him frequently. Be patient. Sometimes, the baby will try new food more than 6 to 8 times. From one to multiple. From simple to complex, step by step.
When babies are able to eat complementary foods, they must be fed with them so that they can gradually adapt to the outside world's food. Simply eating formula milk is not very nutritious. As babies grow older, they need more and more nutrients, and formula milk cannot meet their needs. Therefore, complementary foods are very important. Because babies will mainly rely on eating in the future, while formula milk can only be used as a beverage.
