First of all – continue protection
The consistency in implementing proper nutritional behaviors is important, especially for the first 1000 days of the baby’s life. This consistency should be reflected in giving the child safe, tested meals prepared from the highest quality raw materials and fully adapted to the needs at every stage of development. During the first 1000 days, the child’s body is extremely delicate and sensitive, including for impurities that can carry inappropriate food. Low body weight, the still maturing digestive system and the developing mechanism of “detoxification” requires providing the baby with the best quality food from a reliable source.
Safe products for the sensitive organism
Due to the fact that the young organism is much more exposed to food contaminants than the adult organism, the quality standards of food for infants and young children are much more restrictive than the norms for food for general consumption, and the products undergo a series of quality tests. The child’s body is particularly sensitive in the first months of life, so it is worth continuing to protect it and provide it with a balanced, safe way of nutrition also at the stage of expanding the diet. The first complementary meals should be single vegetables, then, when the child will already accept the taste of vegetables, fruits and porridge.
Grain is the foundation!
One of the groups of food products being the basis of the food ration every day are cereals. They are an indispensable source of complex carbohydrates, very important for the proper development of the child, in particular – the brain, as well as a key element in the daily, varied menu. The cereals also provide a number of vitamins, for example from group B, thanks to which the nervous system can develop properly, as well as minerals and fiber.
Learning to eat breakfast, no added sugar
Introducing cereals into an infant’s diet, it is worth giving porridge, for example for the first meal. Thanks to this, the child is in a habit of eating breakfast. This is an important step up to 5 regular meals a day and one of the basic principles of proper nutrition. Unfortunately, it can often be noticed that especially sweet children are offered sweetened products: breakfast cereals, sandwich creams and milk desserts, as well as products with the addition of salt. The data show that up to 80% of children between the ages of 1 and 3 eat too much sugar1. Studies also indicate that children who consume a significant amount of sweet products at the same time eat smaller amounts of dairy products, as well as vegetables and cereal products containing valuable fiber. In this way, the young body is exposed to the risk of developing many diseases in the future. The baby is born with the natural preference of sweet taste, which is why expanding the diet should start with the administration of vegetables or cereal products. Thanks to this, the child will develop proper eating habits, and the preference of sweet taste will not develop. It will affect the proper way of eating a toddler in the future.