What should children eat if they are iron and calcium deficient?

In life, calcium and iron are essential trace elements for the baby's growth and development. Iron or calcium deficiency will be detrimental to the baby's growth. Our natural food variety is very rich, and we can supplement iron and calcium for the baby through food. If parents find that the baby is deficient in calcium or iron, they must supplement the baby in time to avoid causing serious harm to the baby and affecting the baby's growth and development.

There are three main types of common nutrient deficiencies:

1. Iron deficiency causes iron deficiency anemia. Due to insufficient iron intake by the human body, the synthesis of hemoglobin is affected, which significantly reduces the hemoglobin content in red blood cells. As a result, the number of red blood cells decreases, resulting in insufficient oxygen supply to cells and tissues in the human body, leading to iron deficiency anemia. It affects most preschool children, pregnant women and women of childbearing age, and is one of the important nutritional deficiency diseases in the world.

In our daily life, only divalent iron is easily absorbed by the human body. Most of the iron contained in plant foods is trivalent iron, which is difficult to absorb. The iron contained in animal foods is mainly divalent iron, which is easily absorbed and utilized by our human body. Of course, it is not that trivalent iron cannot be converted. The human body can reduce trivalent iron into divalent iron through the participation of VC, thus achieving the purpose of absorption.

Therefore, if we want to improve iron deficiency anemia, we can start with diet matching. Teacher Xiaoyu recommends a dish "lean meat with green peppers" to everyone. First of all, the iron content in lean red meat is relatively high, and is mainly divalent iron, which is easily absorbed by the human body. Beef, lean pork, etc. are preferred. Green peppers are rich in VC, which can reduce the trivalent iron in other foods to divalent iron, ultimately providing beneficial help for people to improve iron deficiency anemia.

2. Vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A deficiency can easily lead to night blindness, the most common of which is decreased night vision. We can improve this problem through diet. We recommend the dish of "pork liver with carrots". The vitamin A in animal liver is the highest content in our common foods and can be directly absorbed by the human body. Carrots contain beta-carotene. When these two ingredients are combined, they are easily converted into VA in the body that is directly absorbed and utilized by the human body, thereby improving vitamin A deficiency.

3. Calcium deficiency. Calcium deficiency is a common phenomenon among Oriental people, and everyone is well aware of the problems caused by calcium deficiency. The important reason for calcium deficiency may be related to our dietary structure. We mainly eat plant-based foods, which leads to insufficient intake of dairy products, which are the most easily absorbed calcium. Today I recommend the dish "Fish stewed with tofu" to you. Stewing fish and tofu together can not only achieve protein complementarity, but also the calcium content in tofu is much higher than other foods. Fish is a marine creature and its content of various minerals is also relatively high. When the two are combined, the total amount of calcium will naturally not be less.