Mothers that have following mistakes in feeding
children vegetable should learn experience.
Vegetable is one of the sources that
provide vitamins and mineral salt for body and it helps children absorb
nutrients and increase immune system. We often think that feeding children
vegetable is a simple thing; however, it is rather complex.
The following mistakes take place before,
in and after cooking dishes of vegetables for children, mothers should
especially pay attention:
1. Cutting vegetables and then washing
Many mothers fear that chemicals in
vegetable aren’t eliminated completely, so they are careful to cut vegetables
small and then wash it. In reality, this is a wrong way because mothers are
unintentional to wash and make many nutrients of vegetable lose. The best way
is that mothers should wash vegetables cleanly and then cut it and cook.
2. Washing vegetables carelessly
Many mothers believe that when they buy
vegetables and fruits in clean vegetable store or supermarket, their quality is
ensured. Therefore, they feel secure to wash vegetables only with 1 or 2 turns
of water and then cook it for children to eat. But in reality, vegetables in
supermarket are much dirtier than things normal eyes can see. Do not let green
and delicious look of vegetables cheat you.
Cleaning vegetables for meals of adults
need to be clean 1, but to children, it requires 10. To ensure food hygiene,
you should soak vegetables in water about 20 minutes so that dirt and pesticide
can drift. After soaking, wash vegetables again with 2-3 times with clean
water. And finally, soak with water that is mixed a little of salt, make them
dried and cook.
Cleaning
vegetables for meals of adults need to be clean 1, but to children, it requires
10.
3. Time for preparing vegetables has long distance with time of cooking
Many women have habit of buying a lot of
vegetables and store them. When they are free, they will prepare and wash them;
they put them in fridge and take them to cook after a long time. This way will
make vegetables not fresh and they will lose a lot of nutrients.
Storing
a lot of vegetables will make them not fresh and lose nutrients.
4. Cooking vegetables in pan made of copper
Experts in health of children advise that
you should use tools that are made of aluminum or iron to cook for children,
you should avoid copper tool. Especially, when many mothers boil vegetables for
children, they don’t take them out. They continue covering lid in a while to
make vegetables become soft.
This is a method that is antiscientific to
help vegetables become soft. This way makes not only nutrients in vegetables
lose but also catches copper.
We know that dishes and vegetables contain
a given amount of acids. After soaking in pot, this amount of acids will make
mental redundant or oxidize surface of mental container.
Although concentration and content of
mental are caught aren’t big, this thing is harmful to baby’s health.
5. Using all kinds of vegetables to cook soup
Not
all kinds of vegetables are used to cook soup.
Cooking soup is a way that makes children
feel interested in eating vegetables. However, mothers must pay attention that
you shouldn’t use all kinds of vegetable to cook soup for children because some
kinds of vegetable contain an amount of oxalic acid such as spinach, onion…that
can affect the consumption of calcium in children.
