Semolina porridge for babies: whether to remember the Soviet childhood
Porridges have always been healthy, dietary, cheap and satisfying food. Properly cooked semolina is tender, pleasant and well absorbed. You can add to it, according to age and taste preferences, fruits, berries, jam, chocolate. Everyone can eat such porridge - from babies to the elderly. Parents, grandparents of modern children grew up on semolina porridge, which was fed to infants, then in kindergartens, schools, summer camps, hospitals. But today, according to the results of research by scientists, everything is not so simple.
Useful properties and harm of semolina as a product for infants
This cereal is made from wheat, it is a kind of coarse wheat flour. In baby food, semolina has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantages include its energy value, it is nutritious and high-calorie (360 kcal per 100 g of cereal), contributes to weight gain in premature or weak children. This product is available to everyone, easy and quick to cook, inexpensive.
What is the strength in this dish:
- proteins needed for growth;
- carbohydrates (including a large amount of starch that provides energy);
- vitamins of group B, PP;
- micro and macro elements necessary for the child's body.
Semolina is nutritious and healthy
Risk of allergy to gluten and phytin
In semolina there are substances that can cause a negative reaction of the baby's body:
- gluten - a protein found in wheat (rarely, but there is an allergy or intolerance to it);
- phytin is a salt that prevents the absorption of calcium, iron, vitamin D, which is fraught with rickets.
Why you should not feed semolina to babies - video
Allergy manifestations:
- redness, rash, pimples, hives, blisters;
- unexpected constipation or diarrhea;
- nausea, vomiting;
- irritability, fever.
If any of these signs appear, you should immediately consult a doctor.
Newborn, 6-month-old, one-year-old baby - who is not too early to try?
When breastfeeding, it is recommended to introduce complementary foods when the baby is six months old and he will no longer have enough only mother's milk. Thus, it is gradually prepared for adult food. Semolina porridge is not the product that should be introduced into complementary foods for a healthy baby. It can strengthen or weaken the child. The exception is premature, weakened, emaciated children with a lack of weight. Regarding their feeding, it is necessary to consult a pediatrician. Pediatricians advise starting complementary foods with buckwheat or rice porridge.
Oatmeal as a good alternative for complementary foods
There is also porridge, on which children grew up in the last century - oatmeal, the ancestor of modern instant mixtures. Oatmeal is a type of flour that is made from peeled, steamed oat grains. They are not crushed, but pushed. Oatmeal does not need to be boiled, but simply steamed with boiling water and / or milk. At the same time, all useful qualities are preserved. Oatmeal is nutritious and high-calorie, like semolina, contains vitamins and trace elements, as well as gluten and phytin. It also needs to be handled correctly and carefully, introduce the child into complementary foods no earlier than 8 months.
How to choose the right cereal for babies
In the store, you need to be able to choose semolina correctly:
- GOST, brand T or TM should be written on the package (this means that the cereal is made from durum wheat or a mixture of hard and soft);
- it is better to take a pack transparent, it shows the quality of the product (cream shade, no lumps and black dots);
- pay attention to the shelf life;
- give preference to well-known manufacturers.
Why you can not give before a year
Pediatricians recommend introducing semolina porridge into complementary foods not earlier than the child is 8 months old, but preferably a year. At this age, porridge will not become heavy food for the baby and will be normally absorbed by the child's body. Up to three years, children are advised to give semolina porridge no more than once a week. Complementary foods should be correct, in compliance with all the norms of the usefulness of products for a one-year-old child. Like any new product, semolina should be included in the menu little by little and gradually, watching the reaction of the child. For the first time, it is better to cook porridge in water and give one teaspoon a try. If the baby does not have rashes, the stool is not disturbed, then gradually increase its amount, bringing it to a full portion for one meal. Semolina is high in gluten and low in fiber, so it can cause constipation.
Semolina porridge is introduced into the baby's diet gradually so that it does not cause allergies.
If it becomes necessary to feed the child with semolina earlier, then two-month-old and three-month-old children are fed with rare porridge, 5% (5 g of cereal - an incomplete teaspoon per 100 g of liquid). After 6 months, make it thicker, 10% (10 g of cereal - a teaspoon with a slide per 100 g of liquid). Be sure to discuss feeding the baby with the pediatrician.
When semolina porridge is introduced into the diet of a child, it can be boiled in water with milk in equal proportions. At what time of the day (for breakfast or dinner) - it does not matter much. But sometimes doctors advise if the baby does not sleep well, wakes up at night with a demand for food, feed him before bedtime. Semolina is very nutritious, maybe he will be satisfied and will sleep peacefully.
How much to cook semolina porridge for a child
Semolina boiled in water has 80 kcal per 100 g, and in milk - about 100 kcal. Groats should always be poured in a little, in a thin stream, continuously stirring with the other hand so that lumps do not turn out. The proportions of the correct semolina porridge of medium density are 1: 5, that is, 0.5 liters of liquid are needed per 100 g of cereal. Milk or water is poured into the pan, after boiling, a small fire is made, semolina is added, boiled for 4–7 minutes, depending on the type of cereal.
The proportions of cereals and water or milk for making semolina of different densities - table
Recipes for making semolina for children's diet
You can cook porridge in milk or take it in half with water. If there is no special cooker, before cooking porridge in milk, rinse the pan with water so that it does not burn. Sugar, salt and butter are added to taste. Children who cannot tolerate cow's milk protein should make porridge with water or a suitable infant formula. Next, consider the recipes for making porridge.
Video: semolina porridge for a one-year-old child for one serving
How to cook semolina porridge for a child with a mixture that cannot be boiled
Boil semolina in water, when it cools down a bit, add the mixture in a proportion half as small as for feeding. For example, if for 100 g of water you need 3 tablespoons of the mixture, then for 100 g of porridge - 1.5 tablespoons. Infant formula should not be heated, it will lose its qualities.
Cooking porridge with pumpkin for a one-year-old baby
Ingredients:
- 1 glass of milk;
- 100 g pumpkin;
- sugar, salt to taste.
- Put the pumpkin washed and cut into small pieces in a saucepan, pour boiling water so that the water covers it a little, and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Remove from heat and mash the pumpkin into a puree.
- Pour milk into it, add sugar and salt.
- Place on fire and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
- Pour semolina, cook for 7 minutes over low heat.
Semolina with carrots - a healthy and tasty dish
Ingredients:
- 1 carrot;
- 1 tablespoon of semolina;
- 1 glass of milk;
- 1 teaspoon of butter;
- sugar, salt to taste.
- Stew peeled, washed, grated carrots over low heat for 10 minutes, adding half the oil, sugar, salt and a little water to it.
- Pour in milk, bring to a boil and slowly add semolina.
- Cook for 7 minutes until cooked, add the remaining oil.
Multicooker option
Ingredients:
- 1 liter of milk;
- 1 glass of semolina;
- sugar, salt, oil to taste.
- Pour milk into the multicooker bowl, immediately pour sugar, salt, semolina, put oil and stir well.
- Set the function "milk porridge" for 20 minutes.
Precautionary measures
Water for semolina must be purified, and special baby milk. Some nutritionists believe that sugar and salt are unnecessary for young children.
When grandmothers object to me that grandchildren love semolina, I have no doubt, because, for sure, grandmother cooks porridge for granddaughters “our way”: with fat milk, sweet, with butter ... And such porridge is generally contraindicated for a child! Children under 1.5 years old should not add salt or sugar to food.
nutritionist Lyudmila Denisenko
http://www.abcslim.ru/articles/770/mannaja-kasha/
Dr. Komarovsky says that oil should be given to a child after a year and very gradually, as the digestive system must get used to eating fats. An older child can add berries or fruits that he loves.
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