Their delicious flavor and freshness quickly put them in baby’s favorite foods, but a few tips will help your child enjoy them for life!
According to the Official Mexican Standard, children can start receiving solid foods from four to six months of age, with fruits being the second solid food that should ideally be integrated into the children’s diet, after vegetables. Here are some tips to help you make the most of and enjoy its nutritional richness, freshness and flavor.
GOLD RULES
1. Cook them with little water and use that liquid to thin the porridge.
2. Serve small portions so you don’t have to throw away too much if any. Do not keep remains that have had contact with the baby’s saliva.
3. Limit the juices to 6 ounces per serving, and never give them in a bottle, but in a glass or training cup.
4. Watch out for the grapes! This type of fruit involves some risk of suffocation if the whole piece are given. The same applies to large pieces of melon, banana, among others difficult to undo without teeth.
5. Prepare the fruit immediately before offering it to the baby; This way, it will keep its nutritional properties to the maximum. At the time, it gives preference to raw fruit (although without peel or seeds). Of the banana it discards the most superficial capita, as well as the part of the center. Offer the fruit porridge after the vegetable. At this age it is more convenient to consume salty food first and then sweet food.
6. Respect his will. If he refuses a fruit, don’t offer it again until several weeks later, and while giving him another alternative of the same type.