How to replace sugar for a child?

Sugar is hidden not only in the sugar bowl. He is in many products that the baby eats every day. Overabundance of sugar is harmful. Learn how to feed your baby properly.

Have you ever thought how much sugar your baby eats? Cookies, sweets, marmalade ... - you know that the main source of sugar is sweets. Therefore, you try not to overdo it with their quantity. But sugar is also contained in juices, and in cereals, and in rolls, and in fruit yogurt, which the baby eats with pleasure. Even in those products that are difficult to call sweet. For example, in ketchup, bread or ... in sausages! You add sugar to tea and to the dishes that you cook. When you calculate, it turns out that your baby will eat up to two dozen spoons of sugar every day! But his overabundance leads to caries, excessive weight and diabetes.


Make a bet on good energy

Unfortunately, children quickly get used to sweets. This is the first taste they can recognize in my mother's stomach. Breast milk is also sweet. It is impossible to disaccustom the child completely from this taste. But you should not do this. It is enough to limit the amount of sugar in the diet, accustoming the baby to useful sweets. Sugar, as is known, gives the body energy. A baby, he needs more and more of this energy.

But the sugar is different. For sure it was that after the walk the baby had no appetite, and he refused to eat lunch. All because during the walk the child ate a few cookies or drank the juice. Sweets and sweetened foods contain modified sugar, which has no nutritional value. It is instantly absorbed by the body, rapidly increases the level of glucose in the blood and gives a feeling of satiety. Unfortunately, for a very short time. After eating a sweet roll, the child immediately wants to eat something else.

The situation is different with sugars, which the body absorbs gradually. They are completely processed into energy, necessary for a person to function, do not give an illusory sense of satiety. Cereals are useful, first of all, in vegetables, whole grain bread, nuts. Better to give the baby a piece of bread with jam than a loaf of marmalade. To make the first step to limiting the modified sugars, it is necessary to remove the white sugar from the child's outgrowth. Do not put sugar in tea, compote or fruit sauce. For a walk, take mineral water without gas or ordinary boiled water instead of a sweet drink. And when you bake a cake, put only half of that amount of sugar, which is required by prescription.

Snack with benefit

Nutritionists recommend sensibly to dose sweet fruit. Nosahar in fruits - of natural origin, it is not a source of empty calories. Worse with juices, which usually contain a sweetener. Tosoki were less caloric, dilute them with water. Fruits are a valuable source of vitamins, mineral salts and fiber. This is an excellent alternative to sweets. Instead of giving the baby a cookie or lollipop, offer him a piece of apple, banana or carrots. Prunes can be prunes, dried apricots, raisins. Dried fruits, which are sold in packaging, canned using sulfur compounds. But it's still better than sweets. Kid with pleasure crunches chips of dried apples, pears, bananas, even carrots and beets.

Remember that dried fruit is considered one of the five recommended daily portions of fruits and vegetables.

Choose the best

Restriction of sugar is not only a refusal of sweets and a white refined sugar. This is also a limitation of the total daily consumption of sugar. In other words, it is necessary to choose foods that contain as little as possible modified sugar, or, even better, where there is none at all.

Give the child foods with a natural flavor, for example yogurt, milk or curds. Try to abandon dairy products with fruit fillers - they usually contain too much sugar. You can add 1 tsp to the natural yoghurt or cheese curd. jam with a low content of sugar. Instead of ready-made corn flakes in sugar, choose natural cereals or oat flakes. You can add in them pieces of fruit (fresh, dried) or nuts. Ketchup replace with tomato paste, which contains no sugar, nisoli. If there is no fresh fruit, use frozen fruit. From time to time the baby can eat canned pineapple or peach. Buy the canned fruits only in your own juice, and not in syrup. A white roll, replace the rye, best with the addition of pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds. Instead of sweet granulated tea, offer the baby a fruity. And if you give a piece of chocolate, choose a bitter (it is of good quality with a high content of cocoa).

Homemade goodies

The best way to control the amount of sugar in a child's diet is to prepare sweets from natural ingredients. Of all the baking, the least sugar contains products from yeast dough. Without baking powder, artificial dyes and other unsuitable components. A slice of a yeast peel with a portion of natural curd or fruit will be for a baby a perfect gourmand. Better than the store will be baked you buns or a biscuit. Homemade jam or jelly is much more delicious than what is sold in the supermarket. Especially if you were preparing it from a summer harvest.

Mix any fruits with ice and a small amount of sugar-that's ready excellent ice cream. And if you put it in a cup of yoghurt, put it in each stick and leave it in the freezer for 4 hours, you get a real masterpiece. Your baby will be delighted!