Can a one-year-old child eat yogurt?

A one-year-old child can no longer meet his needs by eating only breast milk or formula milk. At this time, the child needs to consume rich nutrients. Therefore, an appropriate amount of other supplementary foods need to be added to the child’s daily diet. Among them, a question that many parents are more troubled about is whether one-year-old children can eat yogurt, because yogurt contains a lot of trace elements. In fact, one-year-old children can eat yogurt.

1. Infants and young children grow and develop quickly and need more nutrition, but their stomach capacity is small, so foods with high nutrient and energy density should be selected. Yogurt meets this condition. It contains more than 20 kinds of nutrients, is very similar to breast milk, is easy to digest, and is especially suitable for infants and young children with immature digestive systems.

2. Yogurt contains galactose. Lactose is a component of cerebrosides in the brain and nervous system, and is closely related to the rapid growth of the baby's brain after birth. Before the age of two is a critical period for brain development. Ensuring the supply of galactose at this time has a good effect on promoting the baby's growth and development.

3. Diarrhea is the most common disease in babies. 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. Some children easily get "inflamed" after drinking milk, which manifests as constipation. The lactic acid and other metabolites in yogurt have a certain stimulating effect on the intestinal mucosa, which can promote the peristalsis of the digestive tract and reduce the occurrence of constipation.

5. Fresh milk is rich in calcium. After fermentation, neither calcium nor minerals change. The lactic acid produced after fermentation can effectively improve the utilization rate of calcium and phosphorus in the human body, so the calcium and phosphorus in yogurt are more easily absorbed by the human body. Drinking a cup of 150 grams of yogurt can meet 1/3 of the daily calcium requirement for children under 10 years old.

To sum up, one-year-old children can eat yogurt, but it does not mean that yogurt must be the staple food. Since the child's intestinal system is not yet fully developed, you should feed the child yogurt in small amounts. When buying yogurt, you should choose yogurt that is suitable for children so that the child can absorb nutrients in time to achieve the function and effect of improving resistance and immunity.