What is baby rice noodles?
When the baby is 4-6 months old, it is necessary to scientifically add complementary food in time, and the most important thing is baby rice noodles.
Baby rice flour is an auxiliary food for infants made of rice as the main raw material, supplemented by optional ingredients such as sugar, vegetables, fruits, eggs and meat, as well as nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. With the improvement of modern science and technology, the nutritional elements of most baby rice noodles are becoming more and more comprehensive and rich. For example, in addition to conventional elements such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine and zinc, vitamins A, C, D, E and B, as well as folic acid and pantothenic acid peculiar to breast milk, are added.
Baby rice flour is one of the most important foods in complementary food. In order to keep the baby's nutrition comprehensive and balanced, according to international practice, the feeding of baby rice flour is usually divided into three stages: 4-24 months, 6-24 months and 8-24 months.
How to make baby rice noodles?
How to make baby rice noodles? In fact, different brands of rice noodles have different brewing temperatures and methods. For example, Tefufen organic coarse wheat flour mixed with water-rice flour-stirring-standing, Shi Ying rice flour mixed with water-rice flour-standing-stirring, Heinz rice flour mixed with water-stirring-standing-stirring. In order to ensure the taste and nutrition of rice noodles, each brand has its own unique blending ratio. Mom just needs to follow the instructions on the box to make rice noodles. In addition, the amount of rice flour and the amount of water added are best determined according to the brewing method. Too thick rice noodles not only taste bad, but also are difficult to digest. Too thin rice noodles make the baby full after a few bites, but it's easy to get hungry.
Two points to pay attention to when mixing rice noodles
Be careful not to use mineral water when cooking rice noodles. In daily life, many people think mineral water is beneficial and use it to cook, make soup or make tea. Although mineral water contains many trace elements, it is not suitable for making rice flour or milk powder for babies. There are many minerals in water, indicating that the concentration of water is high, so that water is not easy to absorb. The baby's stomach is weak, and drinking mineral water will lead to poor absorption.
Don't mix rice flour with milk powder. Both rice flour and milk powder have their own water concentration requirements and water temperature requirements. Eating together may increase the baby's gastrointestinal burden, thus affecting the absorption effect of nutrients.
How to eat baby rice noodles
There are few salivary glands in the first three months after the baby is born, and the amylase contained in the salivary glands and the amylase in the digestive tract are also quite few. If you feed your baby rice noodles at this time, it will not be easy to digest. Generally speaking, when the baby is 4 months old, you can start adding rice noodles to the baby, from less to more, one by one. There is no specific rule on how long rice noodles can be eaten. When the baby's teeth grow out, you can eat porridge and noodles, so you can stop eating rice noodles.
It is suggested that when adding complementary food, iron-containing rice flour should be the first choice, one spoon of rice flour with ten spoons of water at a time and one spoon at a time (we usually drink soup with enamel spoon). Once a day, after a week, the baby gets used to it, and then twice a day.
Baby rice flour can be added before or after any breastfeeding, that is to say, from the beginning, attention should be paid to adding complementary food while adding milk, avoiding adding it between two milks.
When adding rice noodles at first, you can let your baby eat less, because some children are allergic to rice noodles, and eating less will avoid these problems. At the beginning, add about 5 grams, that is, a small spoon, about 2.5 grams per spoon, two spoons per spoon, and make it into a paste for children to eat.
In the process of eating, in the initial stage of adding complementary food, the main purpose of adding complementary food is not to supplement nutrition, but to let the baby learn to eat, let the baby learn to squeeze with the tongue and mouth constantly, and chew and swallow food with the movement of the tongue and mouth. This is the process of eating.
The practice of baby rice noodles
The production method of baby rice noodles is as follows. Parents provide complementary food for their babies, which not only ensures safety, but also ensures food hygiene, and also fills in a deep affection.
Step 1: Prepare the rice.
Except glutinous rice (glutinous rice is not easy to digest and is not suitable for babies), other rice on the market can be used. Directly take rice and grind it into powder. No cleaning is needed before grinding. There is a nutrient in the outer layer of rice. It's ruined after washing.
Step 2: Prepare auxiliary materials.
In addition to rice, we can also add some other auxiliary materials to increase the nutrition of rice noodles, such as: walnuts for nourishing the brain, coix seed for tonifying the kidney, Chinese yam for helping digestion, endothelium corneum Gigeriae Galli, black beans for enriching blood, and lotus seeds for clearing fire. These can be ground into powder and put into rice flour.
Step 3: stir fry and grind into powder.
First, put the prepared rice into the pot, stir-fry for 3 minutes on medium heat, and pour it out; Then put the prepared auxiliary materials into a pot and fry for 3 minutes, then turn off the heat. Pour the rice into the pot and stir well. After cooling, take the powder and grind it. Parents should pay attention to that the powder of baby rice flour should be ground at least three times, because the more grinding times, the more delicate it is, and the more beneficial it is for the baby to eat.
Step 4: Save.
After the baby rice noodles are ground, it is very important to preserve them. Because if you don't pay attention, it will become damp, and the quality is difficult to guarantee. So we need to keep it in a sealed jar and don't cook too much rice noodles at a time.
Step 5: Diet.
When the baby eats rice noodles, the parents first take out the right amount of rice noodles and pour them into the pot, then add the right amount of cold water or warm water to melt them (hot water is not allowed). Then cook with low fire and stir repeatedly during heating until the rice paste becomes fragrant. You can give it to the baby! When making rice noodles, you can also add some complementary foods such as vegetable juice and meat foam. At this time, you should put less water in the rice noodles until other complementary foods are added to the rice noodles until they are cooked.
How to make baby rice noodles by yourself
The easiest way to make rice noodles by yourself:
1, soak the rice for more than 2 hours, take it out and put it in a blender.
2. Add any kind of vegetables or fruits into the blender and stir it into a mud lake.
3. Pour into the milk pot and add some water, stir with a spoon while heating, and boil into a sticky paste.
You can add sweet potatoes, pumpkins, carrots or vegetables according to your baby's taste and stir them together. Older babies can also add meat and so on. Such homemade rice noodles are fresh and nutritious, and the method is simple.
How to buy baby rice noodles
1, try to choose the products of brand enterprises with large scale and good quality of products and services. The product formula design of these enterprises is more scientific and reasonable, the control of raw materials is stricter, and the quality is guaranteed.
2. See if the label on the package is complete. According to national standards, the outer package must be marked with the name of the factory, site, production date, shelf life, implementation standard, trademark, net content, ingredient list, nutrient composition list and eating method. It is best not to buy products that lack any of the above items.
3. See if the labels in the nutrient composition table are complete and the content is reasonable. Generally, basic nutrients such as calories, protein, fat and carbohydrates, vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin D, some B vitamins, and trace elements such as calcium, iron, zinc and phosphorus should be indicated in the nutrient composition table. Other added nutrients should also be marked. According to the National Standard for Infant Supplementary Food in Weaning Period, the contents of vitamin A and vitamin D are between 1000- 1500 international units and 200-400 international units respectively. If vitamins A and D, as the main nutritional indicators, are lower than the national standards, it may lead to malnutrition in infants.
4. Look at the product packaging instructions. Baby rice noodles should clearly indicate that the ideal food for babies is breast milk, and this product can be eaten when there is insufficient or no breast milk; When babies over 6 months old eat this product, they should be supplemented with complementary food. Weaning formula rice flour should also indicate weaning formula food or weaning auxiliary food. These statements must be made clear by enterprises to consumers.
5. Look at the color and smell of the product. Good quality rice noodles should be white, uniform and have the fragrance of rice noodles without other smells, such as fragrance.
6. Look at the organizational form and impulse of the product. It should be powdery or flaky, dry and loose, uniform and non-caking. After being brewed or cooked with proper amount of warm water, it is fully stirred and lubricated into a paste.
7. According to the ingredient content table, we can know whether to supplement rice flour in weaning period or in weaning period. The former not only provides a certain amount of calories, but also increases fat, protein, minerals and vitamins.
Matters needing attention in eating baby rice noodles
What babies need most in their growth stage is protein. The content of protein in rice flour is low, which can not meet the needs of infant growth and development. If only rice flour is used instead of milk, there will be protein deficiency.
The specific manifestations are: slow growth and development, affecting the growth of baby's nervous system, blood system and muscles, low resistance, insufficient immunoglobulin and easy to get sick. Therefore, infants under 1 year old should still be based on formula milk powder.
Babies fed with rice flour for a long time have a slow growth in height, but their weight does not necessarily drop. Instead, it is white and fat, and the skin is full of fat converted from excessive sugar intake, which is called mud paste in medicine. However, these children are weak in the outside, often suffering from anemia, rickets, bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases.
Some parents, it is even more inappropriate to add rice flour food in the newborn period. Pancreatic amylase will not reach the adult level until the baby is about 4 months old, so don't add rice flour food within 4 months. After 4 months, feed some rice flour food properly, but not just rice flour. Even if it is mixed with milk, it should be mainly milk, supplemented by rice flour.