Can babies eat chicken essence?

When babies are young, they should try to avoid eating foods with food additives. Chicken essence is a common condiment in our lives. This condiment is generally widely used when mixing cold dishes. Some people also add some chicken essence when cooking. For babies, they should try to eat less chicken essence because it is also a food additive. So can babies eat chicken essence?

1. What are the harms of eating chicken essence for babies?

Chicken essence is a compound seasoning that contains MSG, flavor enhancers, food additives, etc. It is not resistant to high temperatures, as high temperatures can easily lead to qualitative changes, which is harmful to people's health. Moreover, the MSG (monosodium glutamate) in chicken essence will combine with zinc in the body to produce zinc glutamate which is excreted from the body, which can easily lead to zinc deficiency in the baby. Moreover, in China, many manufacturers do not extract the raw materials from chicken or chicken bones when making chicken essence, but are more chemically synthesized. So mothers should think about it, if your baby consumes chemically synthesized chicken essence for a long time, the harm caused to the baby will be enormous.

Moreover, not all dishes are suitable for adding chicken essence. Adding chicken essence to foods that have their own umami flavor during cooking will make the food lose its flavor and affect the taste of the dish. Moreover, if too much chicken essence is added during cooking, the baby's body will ingest excessive amounts of sodium glutamate in a short period of time, which will exceed the baby's own body's metabolic capacity and directly endanger the baby's health. In severe cases, it may cause food poisoning or even cancer. Therefore, mothers should pay more attention when preparing food for their babies.

In foreign countries, people do not consume chicken essence in their diet. If you feel that the food will not be delicious enough without chicken essence, we can buy some pure natural seasonings to enhance the flavor of the food, but I do not recommend adding too many ingredients to the baby's diet, including salt should also be consumed in small amounts. It is not good for babies to be exposed to some heavy-tasting foods too early. It is recommended that the baby's diet should be light and nutritionally balanced, which is beneficial to the baby's growth and development.

2. Can infants and young children eat seasonings?

1. Can babies eat seasonings?

The answer is no. Babies should never eat seasonings, especially salt, because their kidneys are not fully developed during infancy. The minerals contained in the breast milk or formula milk they eat are in line with the osmotic pressure of the kidneys. At this time, if the baby eats too much salt, the taste will gradually become heavier. Eating too salty food will increase the burden on the baby's kidneys, which will lay hidden dangers for future health, especially the occurrence of diseases such as hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Babies can eat some salt when they are about eight months old, but the amount must be strictly controlled. You cannot assume the child’s taste based on adults’ taste, as this will harm the child’s life.

Babies should not eat MSG or chicken essence. Because chicken essence is a compound seasoning made from chicken, eggs, chicken ribs, MSG and super umami MSG as the main ingredients through a special process. Both chicken essence and MSG contain sodium glutamate and sodium chloride (salt ingredients). Sodium glutamate can convert zinc in baby food into zinc glutamate, which is excreted from the body with urine, causing nutritional deficiencies in children, especially a significant reduction in zinc content. Human saliva contains a kind of taste buds, which is a zinc-containing substance that nourishes the taste buds and oral mucosa. If there is a lack of zinc supplementation during infancy, it can cause loss of taste function, resulting in a decrease in the baby's appetite. At the same time, the child's intelligence, growth and sexual development will all decline. Moreover, chicken essence and MSG can easily cause children's taste buds to be dislocated. Once they stop eating these condiments, children will refuse to eat, and their development will be delayed. For breastfeeding mothers, they should not eat chicken essence or MSG, so as to prevent the content of chicken essence or MSG from being passed to the baby through breast milk.

2. Can young children eat seasonings?

The taste development of children in early childhood is much more complete than that in infants, so they can eat some seasonings, but chicken essence or MSG should be avoided as much as possible, because this can easily cause nutritional deficiencies in children, especially a reduction in zinc and calcium content, ultimately causing developmental delays in children. However, children in their early childhood can consume salt and can eat according to the diet of adults, but the amount of salt they consume still needs to be strictly controlled, because this can easily cause abnormal appetite in children. Excessive consumption of salt can easily make children thirsty and dry mouth, and they need to drink water constantly, especially drinking water constantly after meals, which can easily cause gastrointestinal dysfunction and eventually cause diseases such as diarrhea. Mothers still need to pay strict attention to the use of seasonings in their daily diet, and try to use less or even no seasonings. This is especially true in children's diet, which requires strict control.