It should be remembered that at the age of up to one year, the child's food supply has not yet fully developed, and the use of salt in the baby's food can lead to the disruption of the work of the gastrointestinal tract. Also it is worth remembering that spices can cause the child numerous allergic reactions.
However, do not give up all spices and seasonings and do not use them in the baby's diet. If you add a small amount of food to the food, the gastric juices will start to form, which increase appetite greatly improve digestion.
Salt in baby food
Salt plays a significant role in nutrition, it not only gives the food a special taste, but also supplies the body with such important minerals as sodium chloride. Therefore, when a person does not consume enough salt, his health begins to deteriorate. Because of the lack of sodium and chlorapoda, dizziness, fatigue, a person may even faint, cramps start.
However, excessive consumption of table salt has a negative effect on kidney function and cardiovascular system. Exchange processes begin to break, the central nervous system is much excited.
How can you determine the exact amount of salt that your child needs?
Every day a child consumes in minerals 0.2-0.35 grams of salt, up to one year, while an adult man consumes five grams. All the necessary ingredients fall into the baby's body from various food products and they do not need any additional salt. But when more than a year is over, their salt demand for one day increases to 0.5. Since that moment, all food can be gradually podsalivat.
Many parents try to properly organize a baby's nutrition and very often face a lack of salt in the body. Solving this problem is iodized salt. It can be used to replenish the reserves of iodine. The plus is that the iodized salt that is sold in our country has passed all the necessary checks, meets all quality standards, does not lose its useful properties for a long time and does not affect the taste and color of the products. This is not surprising, because today it contains iodotassium. Previously, potassium iodide was used for its production.
Spices in the baby's nutrition
Spices are certain products of vegetable origin, used as additives in consumed food. They will have their own nutritional value. Their task is to improve the digestive process and give the product a certain taste.
Most of the activities have phytoncidal properties, which unquestionably prevent the penetration of various bacteria into the body. And it is these properties that are valued in modern cooking, as they saturate the food with useful vitamins and minerals.
Spicy vegetables, which in our time are used in the cooking process, are distinguished by a remarkable variety. They began to classify according to what part of them is used for food.
For example:
- seeds are nutmeg, anise, mustard;
- fruits - vanilla, cumin, pepper, badan and cardamom;
- flowers - cloves, saffron, and capers;
- leaves - laurel leaves, marjoram, dill and parsley;
- bark with cinnamon;
- roots - ginger, horseradish, and garlic.
And every spice contains exactly those substances that give them this unique taste and the smell that we love so much. These substances include: ethereal oils and other other types of oils, ethers, alkaloids, alcohols, and so on.
It should be remembered that besides spices stimulating digestive activity and increasing the digestibility of certain nutrients, they are also chemical irritants. Therefore, if a person has kidney, liver, stomach or intestinal disease, nervous or cardiovascular system, eating spices as little as possible. As for children and their food, in this case it is also necessary to limit the consumption of spices. To give little children is not recommended at all. In addition to stimulating the digestive activity, they also cause irritation of the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract, as a result of which inflammatory diseases develop.
In the diet you can include the following spices in a limited amount:
- Parsley, bay leaf, white pepper, dill, celery (for children from nine months);
- Onions and garlic (can be given to children from eight months in small quantities and only after treatment with steam;
- Vanilla (from nine months), cinnamon (from one year, included in the bakery products);
- spicy herbs: rosemary, basil, etc. (used in the preparation of salads and given to children from two years old).
- When a child is three years old, they add a fresh onion, garlic, spicy greens to his food. The amount of spices should be minimal, only to give flavor.
Do not use ready-mixed multicomponent mixtures. They often contain amplifiers and taste enhancers that will not affect the health of the child in the best way.
To date, some types of food acids are widely used in cooking. These include vinegar and citric acid. Vinegar can be as wine, and fruit-berry and even alcohol. It all depends on what kind of feedstock. But in any case, it should not be used in the baby's diet.
Citric acid can enter the body of a child only through bakery products.