Healthy Food for Toddlers

Development of infants after 6 months, usually ready and require additional foods for complementary breast milk. You should give a varied food to meet the nutritional needs of infants. If the baby refuses the wrong types of food, mixed with other fruits or vegetables that much sweeter.

Provision of supplementary food must be gradual because the baby’s gut is still weak. Do not be too hasty desire to give solid food that can cause diarrhea or digestive problems.

For the initial stage, give your baby with foods from fruits and vegetables. This is mainly to introduce a baby with tongue and tasting the food intake. Choose fruits and vegetables are soft, such as papaya, bananas, apples, melons, carrots, tomatoes, leaf spinach, or broccoli.

After your baby about 8 months old, you can begin to introduce a more solid foods. To meet the needs carbohydrates give babies with vegetables that contain lots of starch, like potatoes, sweet corn, or pumpkins.

Meanwhile, to meet the needs of protein, minerals, and vitamins, give your toddler fruit, vegetables, nuts, fish without spines are varied wich rich in protein.

When your baby aged 10 to 12 months, you can provide relatively little solid food, but still made in the form of pulp or juice. Create a healthy diet for your toddler more varied. You can also begin to provide a source of food energy derived from tubers, chicken livers, and chicken or beef.

In making and providing healthy food for your baby, there are some things you should consider, which include:

• Do not give any added sugar or salt, at least until 1 year old child. Let the children feel the taste of foods naturally.
• Fat is still needed to assist the process of digestion and absorption of vitamins by the body. But limit the use of fatty foods no more than 30 percent, and a maximum of 10 percent for saturated fat.
• Do not blow the food is still hot due to free radicals and can spread germs to the child. Let food cool or warm it before fed to the child.
• In the food processing, should be steamed before blending in order to maintain the nutritional content of food.