Can babies eat yogurt when they are one year old?

Yogurt is delicious and can increase people's appetite, so many mothers with one-year-old babies at home think of giving their babies yogurt to increase their appetite. So is yogurt suitable for one-year-old babies? Let's explore it below. I hope the information I collected can solve your problem.

In fact, yogurt has high nutritional value and is very suitable for children to drink. It can also be drunk by babies as old as one year old. The physiological characteristics of infants and young children are that they grow and develop quickly and require more nutrition, but their stomach capacity is small, so foods with high nutrient/energy density should be chosen. Yogurt is an ideal food for babies in four ways:

1. Yogurt has a high nutrient/energy density, is very similar to human milk, is easy to digest, and is especially suitable for infants and young children with immature digestive systems.

2. Yogurt contains galactose, which is a component of brain lipids in the brain and nervous system, and is closely related to the rapid growth of the baby's brain after birth. 3. Yogurt contains sufficient lactic acid bacteria and has appropriate acidity. Drinking yogurt regularly can effectively inhibit the production of harmful bacteria and improve immunity, thereby preventing diarrhea or shortening the duration of chronic diarrhea and reducing the incidence of acute diarrhea.

4. The weaning period is a special period for infants to transition from liquid food to adult solid food. Yogurt is a semi-solid food. Drinking yogurt gives a stronger sense of fullness than milk, and is suitable for guiding infants in the transition from liquid food to solid food.

Yogurt is made by fermenting pure milk. In addition to retaining all the nutrients of fresh milk, lactic acid bacteria can also produce a variety of vitamins necessary for human nutrition during the fermentation process, such as VB1, VB2, VB6, VB12, etc.

Yogurt is also a good source of calcium. Although the nutritional content of yogurt depends on the source and composition of the raw milk, generally speaking, the composition of yogurt is higher than that of raw milk. On the one hand, this is because the quality requirements of the raw materials are high, and on the other hand, a small amount of milk powder is added in the production of some yogurts. So generally speaking, drinking a cup of 150 grams of yogurt can meet 1/3 of the calcium needed by children under 10 years old and 1/5 of the calcium needed by adults.

Yogurt cannot be heated before drinking. Once yogurt is heated, a large number of active lactic acid bacteria it contains will be killed, which not only loses its nutritional value and health function, but also changes the physical properties of the yogurt, forms precipitation, and disappears its unique taste. Therefore, drinking yogurt cannot be heated. In summer, it is best to buy and drink it immediately. In winter, it can be left at room temperature for a certain period of time before drinking. The heat resistance of yogurt is between 50 degrees, so you can add yogurt to the soaked milk for your baby to drink.

Yogurt is really a good thing. In addition to the nutrients in milk, it also contains various vitamins, and milk powder is added. Babies can feel full quickly after drinking it, and yogurt is easy to digest. But be careful not to overheat it when drinking it. After heating, the lactic acid bacteria and probiotics in the yogurt will be killed, and the nutrients will be lost.