Myth 1: Vegetables should be cooked rotten
In fact, the longer vegetables are cooked, the more nutritional losses will be, and the lower the [color value] will be, the less attractive they will be to babies, so do not cook vegetables for too long.
What if the baby can’t chew green leafy vegetables with [tendons] like spinach if they are not cooked for a long time?
For such vegetables, it is recommended that everyone use the [oil boiling] method: after a small amount of water is boiled, add a small spoon (about 3 ~ 5 grams) of vegetable oil, put the washed vegetables into the cover and boil for 2 ~ 3 minutes, then cut or cut them up after coming out of the pot. This can not only reduce the loss of nutrition, sell well, but also ensure the soft taste and facilitate the baby to chew.
Myth 2: Cut before cooking
When Baoma makes vegetable puree for their babies, in order to make the vegetables easier to cook, they will cut the vegetables into small pieces before cooking.
Cut into small pieces and then cook, the nutrition in vegetables will be more easily lost. In order to retain the nutrition of vegetables as much as possible, it is recommended to cook them first and then cut them into pieces. For example, the western blue flowers can be broken into a few small pieces and cooked first, and then chopped up after they are cooked.
Myth 3: Drink Vegetable and Fruit Juice for Babies
The latest guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics point out that babies under 1 year old cannot eat fruit juice.
Even if the baby is over one year old, it is not recommended to drink fruit and vegetable juice. In the process of beating fruit and vegetable juice, vitamins in fruits and vegetables are fully in contact with the air, which is easy to cause oxidation loss. In addition, mixing fruits and vegetables together may also reduce the baby’s acceptance of a single vegetable.
Myth 4: Continue to Eat Vegetables Overnight
There are two kinds of leftovers: one is leftovers that have been inoculated with bacteria through a family of more than one pair of chopsticks. The other is to repackage and refrigerate the vegetables immediately after being prepared. The first kind of leftovers is easier to convert nitrate into nitrite due to long contact time with the air, and the content of nitrite will increase. Therefore, both adults and babies should try not to eat it.
As long as the vegetables repackaged in advance are fully heated, there is no need to worry about safety issues, but after secondary heating, it is bound to lose more nutrition. Therefore, it is better to give the baby fresh vegetables.