What are the staple foods for babies?

We all know that babies are in the stage of physical development and their demand for nutrients is relatively high, so mothers should pay attention to the baby's staple food. Generally, the baby's staple food is still mainly milk and porridge. At the same time, you should also provide the baby with some vegetables. Try to let the baby eat more high-protein foods, and also pay attention to a balanced diet.

When the baby is over one year old, his deciduous teeth have not yet grown in, so his chewing ability is still relatively poor, and the digestive function of the digestive tract is also relatively poor. Although he can chew formed solid food, he still needs to eat fine, soft, and rotten food. Arrange your baby's daily diet according to the extent to which he can chew solid food with his teeth. At this time, your baby can get balanced nutrition from three regular meals a day. Therefore, the amount of milk or milk powder can be gradually reduced to 300 to 400 ml per day.

After the baby is one year old, the overall nutritional requirements are higher than those in infancy. If complementary food is not added properly, it can easily cause malnutrition in the baby, which is usually manifested in symptoms such as poor appetite, weak resistance, delayed motor development, and bone deformities. Therefore, pay attention to your baby's growth process. If the baby appears thin but continues to gain weight, eats less but has regular bowel movements, is energetic, and does not have pale skin, sparse and yellow hair, or bone deformities, then the baby is in a normal developmental state.

The staple foods commonly used for young children are rice porridge, soft rice, noodles, bread, steamed buns, dumplings, wontons, as well as milk and soy milk. Most young children like to eat pasta, so it is more appropriate to feed them rice, noodles, oatmeal, millet, corn and potatoes in alternating patterns. It is best to use a combination of vegetables and meat as complementary food, such as meatballs with minced vegetables and meat, stir-fried tender vegetable leaves with diced meat or shrimp, steamed fish fillets, steamed eggs with minced meat, etc., which are easy for young children to chew and swallow. Mixing vegetables, meat and eggs to make rice or noodles is also popular among young children.

In addition, you should also eat more soy products such as tofu, dried shredded vegetables, tripe, fried tofu, vegetarian chicken, and chicken and duck blood, as well as seafood rich in iron, zinc, and calcium such as dried shrimps, seaweed, and kelp. For snacks, you can choose lotus root powder, red dates, red bean porridge or biscuits, cakes, bread, vegetable and meat buns and pastries with soy milk or milk. You can eat a fresh fruit after the meal. In general, attention should be paid to the balance of meat and vegetables, the combination of dry and wet grains, and the combination of coarse and fine grains of rice and flour.

Regarding the analysis of the staple foods for babies introduced in the article, I hope mothers should remember the types of staple foods introduced in the article, which will be of great help for the healthy growth of the baby. Babies should eat more protein-rich foods in their lives, so they can drink some staple foods such as milk and bread appropriately.