Composition of potatoes
If the potatoes grew without chemicals, then there is a multitude of microelements, vitamins and the substances necessary to the body:
- In potato starch, a lot of carbohydrates, which are of nutritional value, also contain many proteins, almost the same as cereals, but potatoes are almost completely devoid of fats.
- There is a lot of vitamin C in the potato, the fact is that it is contained in the skin. You will be surprised, but in a 150 gm tuber, contains almost half of vitamin C, which is required per day for the body.
- The same vitamin C allows the body to absorb iron, which is contained in the tuber.
- In potatoes there are vitamins of group B1, B3, B6, mineral substances such as magnesium and phosphorus, as well as vitamin K.
- In potatoes "in the uniform" there is a lot of potassium, it is numbered with broccoli cabbage or with bananas. In addition, potassium strengthens our stress armor, protecting against irritation, and improves the work of muscles.
Potatoes and chemicals
Despite such usefulness, one must be careful about the habit of potatoes; it absorbs all the toxins that are contained in the soil, in water, and also from the supplied fertilizers. Moreover, potatoes will pick up harmful substances even from the air. The main danger is that it is impossible to determine the taste of a card with a lot of chemicals.
There are many tips, however useful, where it is recommended to use potatoes with peel, do not soak to preserve all the beneficial properties and vitamins, but for this you need to be sure of its purity. It is necessary to know that toxins are stored in large quantities in the skin, the other half is contained within and can be excreted by soaking the inlet. If you often cook dishes that use potatoes "in the outfit", then remember that the advisers either do not know about it, or it is a clean product from a tested land and clean ecology. But in our time this is from fantasy, even growing for themselves in suburban areas, and fertilizers are used. All this suggests that if you are preparing a potato for a child, then you have to process it.
First baby potato
If you start to feed potatoes, then not earlier than 8 months, because The product for the stomach is complex and it is better to wait until the fermentation has fully developed. For feeding under the age of one is recommended to buy mashed potatoes, and if you cook yourself, you need to take care of a disproved product that is harvested from your garden.
In addition, you need to properly prepare mashed potatoes, even if there are toxins, then maximally disinfect them. To do this, first wash the card, then clean it and after about an hour it should be soaked in the inlet. Then pour the potatoes with boiling water and boil the water, after which you need it, sometimes it is recommended to repeat this action again. And only in the third potato should you cook until the end. Naturally, after such treatment, potatoes will be empty, even starch from it will go all the more vitamins. However, probably, it is better to let it so than feed the child with chemicals.
Now, when the body has learned to take mashed potatoes, it is possible to supplement the feeding of various vegetable additives, for example, zucchini, cauliflower and broccoli. In 2-3 years the baby already has to have a full dinner, i.e. eat vegetable soup, consisting of 4-5 types of vegetables, potato is mandatory, but with the cleaning options described above. Potato soups, with the content of potatoes can be given to a child up to 4 times a week. If you are preparing mashed potatoes, it is better to use milk, diluted with water 1: 1, but not more often than twice a week. It is worthwhile to look closely at the names in kindergartens, see how often the dishes are served with the potato, as a rule, in the gardens they observe the diet.
You need to know that potatoes should not be given to a child every day. If it is a question of vegetable nutrition, then it is worth paying attention to green dishes, color and Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and potatoes only as additives.
How to properly store the card
- Potatoes should be stored separately from other vegetables in order to avoid collective decay.
- If you keep the potatoes, then the whole amount does not need to be washed, otherwise it will become numb.
- Also, it is impossible to store potatoes in the refrigerator, storage-friendly temperature up to 6 ° C, at low temperatures potatoes are not naturally sweet.
- Large stocks of potatoes must be stored in the dark, so that it does not sprout and grow green, otherwise solanine, a toxin, appears in the potatoes. If the potatoes are already grown, then it is necessary to clean the thick layer, and it is better for children not to give it at all.
- Potatoes that have lain up to the spring, even with better storage, still contain toxins, so try to give the old potatoes as little as possible.
Who is prohibited the card
Potatoes are not so harmless, it can cause a child's allergies. For example, if a child has an allergy to allergies, then it is more likely to appear on potatoes. If you are just beginning to introduce potatoes into your baby's diet, then follow the rule of gradually growing food. Once in 1-2 weeks, while you need to follow the quality, potatoes should be served in the morning, when the child feels well and at the end of the meal.
If you notice that the child does not perceive the card at all, there are allergic reactions or the body rejects it, then you need to remove the potatoes from the diet. The same can be based on the findings of the expert, if there is poor fermentation.
Caloric value
In comparison with some vegetables, potatoes are quite caloric, 100 KG contains 80 Kcal, and in a zucchini 23, in beet 42. But in the case of other garnishes, potatoes will be the most low-calorie since in rice 323 Kcal, in buckwheat 326, whatsoever, touch, more and more.
As for calorie potatoes, different factors are important here:
- storage time. Young potatoes are 3 times less calories than the old one;
- cooking also plays a role, fried has 3 times more calories than boiled;
- preparation of potatoes. As already mentioned potatoes need to be cleaned and soaked, while starch with calories will be washed and it will become less caloric, but vitamins will also go away.
What to eat with a potato
Potatoes are good with meat, fish or chicken, and meat for children is better served in the form of cutlets or meatballs. It is not necessary for the child to do the yam and potatoes together with the help of quenching, otherwise it will be a very fat dish. If the first broth is poured, and at the second stew. It is very good to serve potatoes with greens and vegetables. In general, children's food should contain as little fat as possible. Cook the puree in milk, which is diluted 1: 1 with water.
About chips and potatoes
There is no need to say much here, and chips and french fries are very harmful even for an adult, and they can not be given to their children at all. Just do not show that you can try them, otherwise you'll be able to wean them with battles, except you do not eat them yourself at the child. For understanding, it's very sensible to explain to the child that this is a bad meal, and the one who eats it will be ill. Simply find a little information about the dangers of chips and an accessible language, inform the child.
Methods of cooking potatoes and benefits
Boiled potatoes
- Most vitamins will be preserved if boiled potatoes with a low water level.
- Potatoes should be cooked under the lid and on a small fire.
- For cooking, you need to pour boiling water, then the cooking time will decrease and the vitamins will remain.
- Do not leave the cooked potatoes in the water, drain it.
- Do not also boil potatoes for several days, vitamins from it quickly go, cook for 1 time.
- Milk for mashed potatoes must first be warmed up. on cold milk, lumps or gray mashed potatoes are obtained.
- If you cook the soup, then you need to put the potatoes, when the water boils and ready the soup in 10-15 minutes, it will cook quickly, but it will not boil.
Baked potato
- Potatoes are baked in a peel, and therefore you need a clean and tested potato, as a rule, it's your potatoes.
- You should know that with this method, virtually all of the vitamin C is lost, because it is in the peel, but the remaining vitamins and substances are stored on the contrary.
- You can bake potatoes in two ways. 1) Cut it and put the skin down, do not add water or salt; 2) simply bake for 20 minutes at a high temperature of 140-150 ° C.
- To preserve the beneficial properties and vitamin C, you can wrap the potatoes in the vinegar.
- The rind has an aftertaste, if someone does not like it, then you can use spices, spices or herbs that are poured or put on top of potatoes.
Fried potatoes
For a child, this is an extremely undesirable dish. Potato, cooked in this way, is useless, and much harm, it is better to use a different recipe.