What fruits should a one-year-old baby eat?

Fruits are rich in nutrients and vitamins. Eating more fruits is very beneficial to the human body. Parents can give their babies more fruits to improve their body resistance and prevent them from being harmed by colds. Each kind of fruit has different effects. For example, eating bananas can promote intestinal peristalsis and defecation, and eating pears can quench thirst, relieve cough and reduce phlegm. So what kind of fruits can a one-year-old baby eat?

1. Apple: Apple has the functions of promoting salivation, moistening the lungs, stimulating appetite, and sobering up. People with indigestion can drink the juice. Apples can also prevent and eliminate salt poisoning. The potassium in apples can combine with excess sodium in the body and excrete it out of the body. Therefore, when you consume too much salt, you can eat apples to help excrete it. However, apples are rich in sugar and potassium salts. Excessive intake is not good for heart and kidney health, so avoid eating too much.

2. Pomegranate: It is sweet, sour, astringent and warm in nature. It has the functions of killing insects, astringing, astringing the intestines and stopping diarrhea. It is suitable for chronic dysentery, chronic diarrhea, bloody stools, stomach pain, tinea scabies, otitis media, traumatic bleeding and other symptoms.

3. Pomelo: It is sour, cold and non-toxic in nature. It can relieve bloating, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, strengthen the stomach and aid digestion, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It is suitable for stomach problems, indigestion, chronic cough, phlegm and asthma. Grapefruit is sweet and sour and is known to be rich in vitamin C, so it is more beneficial for patients with cardiovascular disease and obesity. The organic acids contained in grapefruit have the effect of eliminating human fatigue.

4. Lemon: It tastes very sour and sweet, and has the functions of promoting salivation, quenching thirst, and dispelling heat. Citric acid can combine with calcium ions to form a soluble chromium complex, thereby alleviating the effect of calcium ions in promoting blood coagulation. Therefore, patients with hypertension and myocardial infarction can greatly improve their symptoms by drinking lemon drinks regularly.

5. Hawthorn: It is sour, sweet, and slightly warm in nature and is extremely nutritious. Every 100 grams of fresh hawthorn pulp contains up to 89 mg of vitamin C, ranking third among fruits. In particular, its calcium content, with 85 mg per 100 grams of pulp, is also among the best. It is very suitable for the calcium needs of children and pregnant women, and it also has significant therapeutic effects on more than a dozen diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, and diabetes.

6. Snow pear: reduces phlegm and relieves cough. When the weather is dry, babies are prone to catching colds. You can feed them pear porridge or stewed pears with rock sugar frequently. Because pears are cold in nature, they can moisten the lungs, produce fluid, clear lung heat, and thus relieve cough and eliminate phlegm. However, eating pears when your baby has diarrhea will only aggravate the condition.

7. Citrus: can eliminate phlegm and activate blood circulation. When babies suffer from acute or chronic bronchitis in autumn and winter, eating citrus fruits can dredge the meridians and eliminate phlegm, thus helping with treatment. Eating too many citrus fruits will cause the baby to get a sore throat. So stop feeding the baby two to three fruits a day. In addition, babies should not drink milk within 1 hour before or after eating citrus fruits. Otherwise, the fruit acid in the citrus fruits will coagulate immediately after meeting the protein in the milk, affecting the absorption of nutrients in the citrus fruits.

8. Banana: laxative and intestinal moisturizing. Bananas are sweet and sticky, and can moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements. Therefore, it is also a fruit that mothers often give to their babies. However, it is not advisable for babies to eat too many bananas in a short period of time, especially for babies with weak spleen and stomach. Otherwise, it will cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Generally speaking, for babies who don’t eat too much, one stick is enough at a time, and they can eat it twice a day.