Thursday, July 14, 2011

The importance of fruit in the children diet

From weaning, 4-6 months from then on, children need to eat fruit every day, and especially during the summer. Due to the heat and copious sweating, in fact, all of us, but especially small children, they lose a lot of body fluids, which are replenished. The fruit is formed, on average, for 80-90% water, enriched with valuable vitamins and minerals, and therefore constitutes a primary source of nutrients essential for the welfare and growth of the baby, not to mention that with its sweet taste, is also a reward for the palate! What are the fruits to be introduced immediately in the diet of small, without risk of triggering allergies? Certainly not as juicy as the fruit soft and pulpy, like apples, pears, bananas.


Are fine, too homogenized, which are hygienic and safe, but smash a banana or an apple grated operations are certainly not requiring a long time. In summer, you may propose to begin weaning the prunes and plums also provided beautiful cakes. The delicate taste of these fruits will certainly be appreciated by adults.

We come to fresh peaches and apricots, you can introduce into the starting 10 months, if peeled, or even before but only in a jar. As far as Watermelon and melon, the most popular summer fruits, can be proposed after 8-9 months, but with caution, because being rich in sugar fermentation can create in his tummy to give rise to colic.

Children can begin to enjoy the fruit and citrus fruit after 12 months (it consists of fruit acids, also can give allergy), while for strawberries, cherries, exotic fruits and nuts in shell would be better not to risk it, wait the child has completed 2 years of age. After this age, the green light to all the fruit in the world, to be used as an ingredient in delicious cakes and pies made in house and in the form of jams and marmalade!

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