To keep vitamin C in children’s food,
mothers can refer to the following ways:
1. The importance of vitamin C to children’s health
Vitamin C helps grow cell muscles, heal
wound, and prevent normal flu. That is an important antioxidant that can
protect body to prevent diseases such as cancer, heart disease…
Vitamin C has the important role in helping
babies absorb Fe and calcium effectively from food. This is the reason why
babies should vegetables, bulbs, and fruits in meals.
Lacking vitamin C can lead to the symptoms
including pain in muscles, tiredness, bleeding or gingivitis, curb baby’s
development.
If you want your babies to have the healthy
growing and developing, you shouldn’t forget vitamin C. Vitamin C can be
dissolved in water and it is sensitive with light or heat source. Therefore, if
mothers don’t know to keep vitamin C in children’s food, their body will lack
vitamin C.
2. Some simple ways that can keep vitamin C in baby’s food
How
to choose, buy and preserve vegetables, bulbs
You should go to the market every morning
so that you can buy vegetables, bulbs for children because if you keep them in
a long time, they will lose a remarkable amount of vitamin C.
Mothers
should buy vegetables in the morning because at this time, they are very fresh.
Vitamin C is very sensitive with light and
heat source, mothers should buy vegetables and bulbs in the morning, especially
when the sellers have just collected or picked. It will be very ideal because
at that time, vegetables and bulbs are the most fresh and delicious. If not,
the kinds of vegetable and bulb that are preserved in supermarket are also very
good because they don’t lose substances because of contacting with light or
temperature.
The kinds of ripe fruits contain more
vitamin C than unripe ones.
You need to preserve vegetables and bulbs
of babies in fridge to reducing the loss of vitamin C.
The
ways to process
You always process the weaning food for
babies to eat in day. Although you are busy, you shouldn’t let babies eat vegetables
and bulbs that are kept in a long time or are withered because at this time,
the amount of vitamin C of vegetables, bulbs and fruits reduce a lot.
Processing
weaning food for babies by microwave can keep more nutrition.
Steaming vegetables, bulbs and fruits is
considered the best method to keep vitamin C of food. According to some
researches, processing weaning food by microwave can keep more nutrition than
steaming although most parents don’t want to use microwave to process weaning
food for children.
Because vitamin C is easy to dissolve in
water, you should take full advantage of boiling water to process food for your
children when you boil vegetables and bulbs. This way can avoid the loss of
vitamin C.
Mothers shouldn’t cook vegetables, bulbs
and fruits in a long time because vitamin C will be lost if you simmer
vegetables, bulbs and fruits in a long time. When those foods have just been
cooked, you can feed babies.
The
way to feed babies
Most nutrients including vitamin C exist
under the peel of fruits. Therefore, if possible, mothers should take full
advantage of chance to let babies eat some fruits, including peel. However, you
also need to choose because babies cannot eat all fruits including peel.
If
possible, mothers should take full advantage of chance to let babies eat some
fruits, including peel.
Within 1 hour, you shouldn’t let babies eat
milk, orange and mandarin together. Acid in these kinds of fruit can
precipitate when it meets protein in milk. It will affect the process that baby
absorbs nutrition from orange and mandarin.
