How do children eat cheese?

Cheese is rich in many nutrients, such as protein and calcium. If children eat some cheese properly, it is very beneficial for their physical development, especially the proper amount of calcium will help them develop normally. There are many ways to eat cheese, and it can be prepared according to children's tastes. Below, the editor will introduce some specific and common ways to eat cheese for children and its nutritional value.

Pour the fresh milk into the barrel, stir it to extract the cream, and then place the pure milk in a hot place to ferment. When the fresh milk tastes sour, pour it into a pot and boil it. When the yogurt takes on the shape of tofu, scoop it into gauze and squeeze it to remove the water. Then, put the curd into a mold or a wooden tray, or squeeze it. Most people put a few pieces of cheese in their bags to prevent accidents and to satisfy their hunger and thirst. Press it into shape or cut it into cubes with a knife, and the raw cheese is ready.

Although cheese has high nutritional value, it also has some less than ideal factors, namely that it contains a high level of saturated fatty acids. These saturated fatty acids remain semi-solid at body temperature, are not easy to melt, and are digested relatively slowly in the intestines. For babies under 1 year old, since their digestive function is not yet fully developed, it is best for mothers not to add cheese rashly.

3 reasons to give your baby cheese

1. Provide sufficient fat ratio for children's growth and development

In terms of food structure, there are huge differences between young children and adults. The capacity of a young child's stomach is very small, so the volume of food they eat at each meal cannot be too large; on the other hand, young children are active and lively, consume a lot of energy, and grow quickly, so they need a lot of nutrients. In order to solve the contradiction between small food intake and large consumption, young children need to eat foods with higher nutrient density, and the proportion of fat in their food should be higher than that of adults.

2. Promote gastrointestinal function in children

Young children's digestive ability is not as good as that of adults, and their immune system function is not yet fully developed. They urgently need to get more health factors from food, especially factors that promote digestion and enhance resistance.

3. Concentrated essence

Cheese is small in size, high in energy, and highly concentrated in nutrients, making it particularly suitable for babies' needs.

Because it has been fermented by microorganisms, the protein in cheese is very easy to digest and absorb, making it very suitable for delicate babies to use as a nutritional supplement. Some studies have also pointed out that due to the action of microorganisms, some milk proteins are broken down into a variety of "bioactive peptides", which can be directly absorbed in the human intestine. They have health benefits such as improving human immunity, promoting calcium absorption, promoting digestion, preventing diarrhea, and preventing tooth decay. These are benefits that young babies especially need.

Just two slices of hard cheese a day can provide about the same nutrients as a glass of milk. But now the average Chinese person only eats a little over 1 gram of cheese, which is a little bit about the size of a little fingernail. It is a pity that many families have not yet tasted cheese.

Children should be careful when eating cheese, and try not to eat it before meals, so as to avoid the large amount of fat in the cheese making children feel full and affecting their appetite. This is not good for children's health in the long run, and they are likely to suffer from malnutrition to varying degrees.