What sweets can I give to a child?

Among children it is difficult to find those who themselves reject sweets, for such excessive love, they often pay health. Therefore, it is parents who should not only control, but also form a correct understanding of the consumption of sweet in the child. Initially, parents themselves will be useful to know when you can start giving sweets, which ones and how many.


Child and First Hits

Perhaps the very first sweetness is lactose, which is contained in breast milk, if the food is artificial, then it contains maltose and the same lactose. Then further even more - the child begins to eat mashed potatoes to drink juices, and there is a lot of natural sugar. Often, moms make a mistake to feed the baby without problems, they in puree and other food are added for the sweetness of sugar for goodness. This is not the biggest problem, a child as a child can form a perverted taste and understanding of products. Vitoge, he will not eat unsweetened food, and the constant use of sugar will lead to fatness. Therefore, from childhood, it is necessary to protect the child from drinking tea or water, well, if you manage to last up to 1 year.

The right first sweetness

Having reached the age of 1 year, you can start to give a little bit of a sweet food. But here it is important to know that up to 3 years, the sweet should not exceed 40 grams, so properly distribute the norm in the products. For example, compotes can not be malted at all, and the main sweetness of the first can be a fresh or frozen berries with a small amount of sugar.

It will be useful to give the child marmalade, candy or marshmallow, izsefira better choose not flavored and without dyes, and pure creamy or with vanilla. Marmalade is also worth choosing, you should not buy chewing grapes, they are full of any substitutes, plus, because of the stiffness of the child, it is not chewed, but swallowed.

If the child is already about 3 years old, then you can add natural jam to the mash, and also give him jam for tea. In the jam a lot of potassium is iron, and also other useful substances depending on the berries. Protect children of otchimii type Pepsi, Cola, Phantom and others.

Gradual addition of new sweets

After 3 years, the horizon of sweets can be expanded, now in the interval up to 6 years, the sugar norm per day rises to 50 g. This includes everything: sugar for cooking, including sugar, which will be in juices or in pastry baking, as it is not the only way to get food. costs at this age to buy a child a cookie, waffles, honey or jam. But up to three should not be a child of cocoa and chocolate, even if it is on products such as glaze for a tooth, etc. For children's enzymatic system, it will be difficult, in addition, the chocolate is very fatty, the children have not yet gained a stomach and pancreas. If a child has an allergy or problems with pancreas since childhood, chocolate should be struck from the list altogether. In other cases it is recommended to start with white or milk chocolate, and after six years of restriction there is no.

It is necessary to give dried fruits, it can be done already from the age of 4, they are useful, vitaminized, contain useful substances, trace elements, protein, although a little, and they are more useful than sweets, it would be great to completely replace them with sweets. You can also start to give low-fat types of ice cream, for example, creamy fillings. Exclude iris, caramel and candies at least up to 4 years old, it's just hard for a child to chew and swallow.

Children from waffles, cookies and other baking do not delay, but know that all the baking is done on flour of the highest grade, with the use of sugar and fats, respectively, they are very high in calories, with a lot of sucrose. However, there are very few useful substances in them: protein, minerals and vitamins. Try to limit the baby from cakes and cakes, from them develop intestinal microbes.

It is important to properly learn to get sweets. A child should not have free access to them, and should not be encouraged by the sweet for good conduct. Sweet must match food, for example, at noon or after dinner after dinner. Especially beware of consolation "candies", when the default silence instead of crying parents put the sweets, but also in punishment to select the sweet can not.

Do not give in to childish blackmail or pleas for sweet things, for example, on the street or in shops, "Well, buy it," it can continue indefinitely, as a result, by the time of dinner, the child will not have an appetite and whims will begin. It happens that before feeding is still far away, and the child walks up and is hungry, do not give a sweet, better give him a fruit or a salad of vegetables. As a result, the appetite will decrease a little, but it will not get many calories and will soon be ready for the kobedu.

Children under 7 years are very mobile. Whatever they do, occurs quickly and consumes a lot of energy, as a result of which the metabolism of the udetei is more intense. Among other things, energy comes to them from carbohydrates, these same carbohydrates are builders of hormones, blood and proteins. Nevertheless, carbohydrates are very different, some can be quickly absorbed, for example, sugar sweets or carbohydrates from cereals, breads and pasta, such carbohydrates are slowly digested. It is these carbohydrates that give the child the right amount of energy to be charged.

The use of honey

Honey, of course, is very useful and necessary for children. You need to know about its diversity, for example, flower sorts are useful for digestion, increase motor activity and improve secretory work of the stomach, however, like other internal organs. Despite the sweetness, honey improves appetite, in addition, it relaxes to an acceptable degree of gastrointestinal tract. Honey is a healer, it has a powerful antibiotic effect, honey improves resistance to fighting viruses, is useful for colds, and is also necessary in case of inflammatory processes. However, honey is an allergen, especially for children under the age of 6 years. Therefore, before 3 years, it is better to avoid feeding with honey, then give honey a little, it can be added to the food for 1 hour / spoon. If you have any allergies, it is better to talk to your doctor beforehand about honey and get his recommendation.

The consequence of excessive consumption of sweets

As already mentioned, parents make two mistakes with sweetness, leave them without control or allow them to eat at any time. Probably, many know this, good grandmothers and loving mothers during a child's walk are feeding confectionery with buns, sweets or even ice cream.

Parents and grandmothers should remember:

It is parents who are responsible for the correct understanding of the baby's nutrition, tk. the child looks, first of all, at how they eat in his family. If at home everyone ate at one time and a full meal, and dessert is eaten, for example, fruit instead of cake, then the child will have the same representation of food.