What complementary food should a five-month-old baby eat?

What to feed a five-month-old baby is really a headache for many parents nowadays. Everyone knows that complementary food plays a very important role when the baby reaches a certain age. Eating right is of great help to the child's healthy growth. If you don’t eat right, there will be many problems. Many parents don’t dare to judge their baby’s diet easily because of this. So they want to know what complementary food should babies eat for five months?

1. Ingredients for honey pumpkin puree: 100 grams of pumpkin, 1 teaspoon of honey. Method: Wash the pumpkin, peel it, remove the pulp and seeds, and cut it into slices. Use a spoon to mash the steamed pumpkin slices. Use your hands to gently shape the pumpkin puree into a large ball, and then make a few smaller balls around it. Drizzle with honey before serving. Nutritional tips: Pumpkin is rich in carotene, which can protect people's eyes, give people bright eyes, and can also comprehensively improve the body's immunity.

2. Ingredients for egg yolk porridge: appropriate amount of rice, appropriate amount of broth (or fish soup, vegetable soup), 1 egg yolk. Method: Strain an appropriate amount of soup to remove the residue. If it is fish soup, be especially careful to prevent fish bones. Remove the oil from the soup noodles. Scrambled eggs. When cooking rice for adults, put rice and water in the pot, use a spoon to dig a hole in the center so that the rice in the center has more water. After the rice is cooked, the rice in the center will become soft rice. Rub the appropriate amount of soft rice into a paste. Put the soup and rice paste into the pot and bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat until it becomes a thin paste. Then add the egg puree, stir well and bring to boil, then pour into a bowl. When the temperature is suitable, you can feed your baby. Nutritional tips: Eggs are sweet and neutral in nature, and belong to the spleen and stomach meridians. They can nourish the lungs and blood, nourish yin and moisten dryness. They are used for qi and blood deficiency, fever, thirst, fetal movement disorder, etc. They are a commonly used food to support positive energy. It is used for decreased milk secretion due to blood deficiency, or dizziness, night blindness; physical weakness after illness, and malnutrition.

3. Ingredients for tomato and vegetable porridge: 50 grams of tomatoes, 20 grams of onions, 30 grams of cabbage, and 20 grams of white rice. Method: Wash tomatoes, onions and cabbage and cut into small pieces. Put these vegetables in a pot and cook. Cook vegetables and rice together with water to make porridge. Use a blender to blend the cooked porridge into a paste. Filter and remove the residue, then you can feed your baby. Nutritional tips: Tomatoes can strengthen the stomach and aid digestion, promote salivation and quench thirst, moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements. The organic acids they contain, such as malic acid and citric acid, can promote the secretion of gastric juice and the digestion of fat and protein.

4. Ingredients for lotus root porridge: 250 grams of lotus root, 100 grams of japonica rice, and appropriate amount of water. Method: First scrape the lotus root and cut into thin slices. Then wash the japonica rice. Add lotus root to the pot. Then pour in rice, add appropriate amount of water, and cook together to make lotus root porridge. Nutritional tips: Lotus root has a good astringent and hemostatic effect, and can clear away heat and promote body fluid. It can treat spleen deficiency, chronic diarrhea, and blood in the stool.

The above article has explained clearly what complementary food a five-month-old baby should eat. However, the diet still needs to be based on the baby's own physical condition. Some babies' digestive systems may develop slowly, so they need to eat complementary foods when they are older. On the contrary, some babies can eat complementary foods when they are younger. These are things that parents need to understand well.