Can children eat fresh lotus seeds?

Lotus seeds are a particularly nutritious food that can improve people's physical fitness and supplement specific nutrients for the human body. For some mothers or fathers with babies, they worry about whether their children can eat fresh lotus seeds. In fact, babies can eat lotus seeds, but you need to pay attention to the method and age. Next, I will introduce to you the relevant knowledge about eating lotus seeds for babies!

1. How old can babies eat lotus seeds?

Babies over 6 months old can eat lotus seeds.

Lotus seeds are a very popular delicacy. They are delicious, highly nutritious, and have the effects of nourishing the heart and spleen, calming the nerves, and benefiting the kidneys. Eating them can help babies to have peace of mind and normal excretion. They are especially suitable for babies with diarrhea, lack of sleep, and frequent dreams. Lotus seeds are a natural food with almost no side effects, so babies can eat lotus seeds appropriately after starting to add complementary foods at 6 months old. But please note that babies under one year old should not eat lotus seeds raw. The lotus seeds should be ground into powder and added to other complementary foods for the baby to eat.

2. Precautions for babies to eat lotus seeds

1. Babies with dry and hard stools should not eat lotus seeds. Lotus seeds have the function of astringing the intestines and stopping diarrhea, so they will aggravate the baby's symptoms of dry and hard stools.

2. Babies under one year old should not eat lotus seeds raw to avoid being too cold or accidentally swallowing them, which may cause damage to the esophagus and blockage. Therefore, lotus seeds should be ground into powder and added to other complementary foods for babies to eat. 3. Do not feed lotus seed core to your baby. Lotus seed core is bitter and cold. Eating it is not good for the baby's health, especially for babies with cold constitution.

3. How do babies eat lotus seeds?

1. Ingredients for mung bean and lotus seed porridge: mung beans, lotus seeds, rice.

practice:

(1) Wash the mung beans and lotus seeds, put them into a soymilk maker, add water (not too much), about enough water to make it between the upper and lower water levels, and start beating the soymilk into rice paste.

(2) Wash the rice, put it into a pot, add water and cook porridge.

(3) When the rice is almost cooked, add the mung bean and lotus seed rice paste and continue to cook until cooked.

2. Ingredients for rock sugar lotus seed soup: lotus seeds, rock sugar.

practice:

(1) Wash the lotus seeds and remove the lotus seed core. This step is very important as babies cannot eat the lotus seed core.

(2) Place the lotus seeds in a stewing bowl and add appropriate amounts of rock sugar and water according to personal taste. If your baby likes sweets, you can add a little more rock sugar.

(3) Turn on the heat and simmer for 3 hours. If you like the dish to be soft and mushy, simmer a little longer.