Mom and Dad will buy all kinds of yogurt for their babies:
This is good, probiotics.
This is good, with fruit grains.
This is also good. Children’s yogurt is for babies.
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Little imagine, the yogurt you are giving your baby every day may be [fake yogurt].
Fake yogurt is not only nutritious, but also contains excessive additives and sugar, which may also be harmful to children’s health. Today we invited Teacher Chao Lu to teach everyone how to avoid those [fake yogurt], so that how can find a better yogurt for babies.
In fact, it is very simple to distinguish whether a yogurt is good or not. It is enough to look at this number:
When it comes to how to distinguish, Mr. Chao Lu has a good way. It is enough for everyone to remember a number: 2.9
This 2.9 refers to the protein content of yogurt. Only yogurt with a protein content of not less than 2.9 g/100 g can be called a good yogurt suitable for babies to drink.
Why? Let’s go and see those Kengwa yogurts that are easy to buy wrong, and we will know.
Don’t buy two kinds of yogurt
1. [False Yogurt]
The so-called “fake yogurt” actually refers to yogurt beverages, lactic acid bacteria beverages, For example, a certain ledo, a certain C, a certain crooked, etc., [smart] merchants will generally write the big word [yogurt] on the package, and then bring the inconspicuous word [beverage] on the inconspicuous place. Although this kind of product contains milk and lactic acid bacteria, its main ingredient is water, milk only accounts for about 30%, and the protein content only needs to be greater than 0.7%.
In order to make the taste of the product better, merchants will add a large amount of sugar or sweetener, etc. Therefore, the so-called yogurt beverage and lactic acid bacteria beverage can only be regarded as beverages, not real yogurt.
This kind of product not only cannot provide the nutrition that milk should have, but also the high sugar content will harm the baby’s teeth and cause the baby’s obesity and other problems.
2. Flavor Yogurt
In addition to [fake yogurt], fruity yogurt and prepared yogurt are not recommended for babies. We generally refer to them as flavor yogurt.
The national food safety standard defines flavor yogurt as follows:
Products made from more than 80% raw cow (sheep) milk or milk powder as raw materials, adding other raw materials, adding or not adding food additives, nutrition enhancers, fruits and vegetables, grains and the like before or after sterilization and fermentation.
The protein content of this kind of yogurt is relatively low, generally requiring ≥ 2.3 g/100 g. In addition, the so-called fruity yogurt is generally made of jam or essence, plus a large amount of sugar. Drinking such yogurt will undoubtedly increase the baby’s sugar intake.
How to choose a high-quality yogurt?
Having said so much, what about how’s finding [high-quality yogurt] suitable for babies? I’m here to give you two tips
Step 1 Look at the name
Any XX yogurt on the name or fermented milk with flavor indicated on the name can be passed off directly. In addition, At present, there are many new types of products on the market, such as pudding and Mu Si. These are not serious yogurt, but can only be counted as desserts containing milk. They are characterized by low protein, high fat, high sugar and very expensive. Buying such products for children not only cannot provide sufficient nutrition, but also endangers children’s health.
Step 2 Look at the label
Although looking at the name can help everyone to screen out a large part of unqualified yogurt, it is inevitable that there will be a slip through the net. At this time, let’s take a look at the label.
- The protein content is ≥ 2.9 g/100 g, of course the higher the content, the better. The lower the carbohydrate content, the better. Of course, this also means that the yogurt you choose is getting sour and sour. The more probiotics, the better.
Probiotics can help treat children’s irritable bowel syndrome, improve children’s lactose tolerance, prevent or treat eczema, help prevent allergy and other effects, which is also a very important reason for parents to choose yogurt. However, in order to achieve these effects, the number and activity of probiotics must meet certain requirements.
Therefore, the more active probiotics the better when choosing yogurt. However, Probiotics are especially delicate and need to be stored in an environment of 2 ~ 7 ℃ to ensure their activity. Even so, their activity will decrease with the extension of storage time, so try to choose fresh yogurt. If you encounter yogurt stored at normal temperature, or yogurt placed in an unopened freezer, pass it off directly.
Generally, from the beginning of the baby to add supplementary food (6 months), you can start to drink yogurt, but pay attention to a small amount of addition, breast milk or formula milk powder should still be used as the main source of baby nutrition before the age of one. And because probiotics are relatively fragile, the time to drink yogurt should be put in the middle of two meals as far as possible.
In addition, it should be noted that no new food should be introduced after adding yogurt for three days. Once the baby has allergy, the allergen can be judged in time. If the baby is diagnosed as milk protein allergy or has symptoms of food allergy, it is best to consult a doctor before deciding whether to add yogurt to the baby.
If drinking yogurt is a happy thing, what is happier than this should be licking the yogurt lid. If it is happier, it is probably licking the yogurt lid with my little lover.