Supplementary food to promote baby's digestion

Babies can be given complementary foods after 7 months, but don’t add too much complementary food at the beginning, otherwise it will cause indigestion and seriously affect the baby’s health. However, adding complementary foods to babies can promote gastrointestinal digestion, such as adding porridge and fruit juice to babies. Porridge can warm the stomach, especially pumpkin porridge and whole grain porridge.

Carrot Hawthorn Juice

Hawthorn is rich in organic acids, pectin, vitamins and minerals, and the calcium and iron it contains far exceeds that of other fruits. Moreover, hawthorn can promote the secretion of gastric juice and aid digestion. Its sour and sweet taste is also very popular with children. When paired with carrots, it can help promote the flow of fluid and aid digestion, thus boosting your baby's appetite. In addition, it is best to choose fresh hawthorn fruit. The hawthorn slices sold on the market contain too much sugar, and eating too many hawthorn slices will do more harm than good to babies. (Follow the WeChat subscription account: Duo Ma Parent-Child Time, and chat about parent-child parenting)

【Suitable people】

Babies over 8 months old

【Ingredients】

1-2 hawthorns, half a carrot

【step】

1. Select 10 fresh hawthorns, wash them, and cut each into four petals.

2. Wash half a carrot and blend it in a blender.

3. Put hawthorn and chopped carrots into the pot, add water and boil, then cook over low heat for 15 minutes and filter with gauze.

4. Pour the filtered carrot and hawthorn juice into a cup and drink it after it cools down.

Chinese Yam and White Radish Porridge

Yam contains substances such as amylase and polyphenol oxidase, which are beneficial to intestinal digestion and absorption, and can produce fluid and benefit the lungs, nourish the spleen and nourish the stomach. White radish also contains amylase and crude fiber, which can promote digestion and accelerate gastrointestinal motility. Both ingredients are very suitable for relieving gastrointestinal discomfort and other problems caused by indigestion.

【Suitable people】

Babies over 10 months old

【Ingredients】

1 bowl of white rice porridge, 50g yam, 30g white radish

【step】

1. Peel the yam, wash it and cut it into small pieces.

2. Wash the white radish and cut it into pieces.

3. Blanch the white radish pieces in boiling water, then grind them into white radish puree.

4. Take a small pot, pour in rice porridge, put in yam pieces, and boil until the yam is soft.

5. Then add the mashed white radish and cook evenly.

6. Pour the yam and white radish porridge into a bowl.

Corn cereal

Corn is rich in vitamins and plant cellulose, which can stimulate gastrointestinal motility, accelerate excretion, and prevent constipation. Moreover, corn can be made into rice paste, which is easy to digest and has a sweet taste, and most babies love to eat it.

【Suitable people】

Babies over 8 months old

【Ingredients】

30g white rice, 1/2 corn, 400ml water

【step】

1. Wash the rice and soak it in clean water for about 1 hour.

2. Cook the corn and peel off 1/2 of the corn kernels.

3. Use a blender to grind the corn into corn puree.

4. Grind the rice with a grinder or blender. Add a small amount of water before grinding.

5. Pour the ground rice and water into a pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Then switch to low heat and simmer, stirring gently with a spoon. Cook for about 20 minutes, until the rice is fully cooked.

6. Then add corn puree and cook for another 2 minutes, stirring while cooking until the corn paste is cooked through.

7. Put the cooked rice paste on the strainer and crush it while stirring.

8. Take the filtered corn rice paste.