Baby soups - Doctissimo
Laurie Fourcadepublié le, Updated medical validation: May 14, 2018dr Jesus CardenasallergologistGood eating habits are taken from an early age.And to gently initiate food diversification, nothing like soup.Rich in tastes, she familiarizes baby with new flavors and is the basis of a balanced diet.
- Soups, yes, but at what age?
- The benefits of soups for babies
- How to properly prepare baby soups?
Neither too early nor too complete, food diversification must be done from 4 months by gradually.Important step in baby's life, it must be started with precautions.From an early age, you can count on soups.Indispensable to familiarize the child with the good taste of vegetables, they constitute an essential source of vitamins, fibers and minerals.
Soups, yes, but at what age?
From the age of 4 months, the child is able to ingest and digest other foods than milk.Nevertheless, it is not a question of stopping the milk brutally.A successful diversification involves consumption from 500 to 750 ml of milk per day until the age of one year.
If small pots facilitate the gradual passage of exclusively milky food for diversified food, pediatricians are increasingly advising soups."They are the best way to introduce children to other flavors. Around the age of 18 months, many children refuse to eat vegetables. By familiarizing them from an early age to the taste of the carrot, ofZucchini or beans, they agree more to consume them, later, in pieces "notes Dr. Lyonel Rossant, pediatrician.
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Accustoming baby to the soup is not an easy task.If it is essential to introduce the child to a new diet, it is equally desirable to respect certain rules.Regarding the soup, it is therefore preferable to prepare it, at first, with a single vegetable."Giving the child a soup cooked with a vegetable allows a real discovery of the flavors. In this way, we also avoid allergies, easier to identify. It is then possible to mix the vegetables between them and to offer more soupsConsistent "adds Dr. Lyonel Rossant.
Indispensable for the food balance of toddlers, soups are full of benefits.Poor in fats, they are an important source of defibers, mineral salts and vitamins, especially if they are cooked homemade.Indeed, industrial soups often contain too much salt, or fat.Favor soups adapted to young children.Prepared according to their needs, the salt and fat content is considerably reduced.
How to properly prepare baby soups?
To bring to your baby all the benefits of soups, you have to prepare the vegetables well:
The recipe for a baby poultry soup
For lunch, prepare a thick, velvety soup, like a poultry cream, for example: buy 20 grams of raw chicken white, 4 lettuce leaves, 30 g carrots and turnips, 50 grams of zucchini and 30 ml ofmilk.
Wash the vegetables, peel them and cut them.Chop the lettuce.Cook everything for twenty minutes, steam.Meanwhile, cut the chicken into small pieces and brown it in the pan.Let cool and mix the vegetables and chicken together.Add the milk and adjust the temperature before serving.
The recipe for a baby vegetable soup
In the evening, prefer a clearer soup.The essential recipe remains the vegetable broth.For this, you need a liter of water, 2 potatoes, 2 leeks, 2 carrots, 2 branches of parsley, 2 lettuce leaves, 1 turnip and 1 zucchini.
Peel and coarsely cut the vegetables.Cook in water on soft lights for 30 minutes.Pour everything into a colander taking care to recover the cooking broth.Mix a few pieces of vegetables with the broth and reserve others for your consumption.
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