Apple is the first fruit that is introduced into the lure of a nursing baby. The use of apples for children is determined by their high nutritional and healing properties. In apples contain vitamins C and B, carotene, mineral salts of calcium, iron and phosphorus. Especially rich in vitamin C acid varieties of apples, their use has a beneficial effect on hematopoiesis. Sweet varieties are rich in pectin, stabilizing the metabolism, as well as antimicrobial substances. Apples improve appetite and digestion, help strengthen immunity.
Puree from fresh apples for babies can be prepared in various ways:
- The most simple and convenient if you need a small amount of puree (at the beginning of complementary foods): scrape a teaspoon with a peeled apple and immediately give the baby the contents of the spoon;
- when more mashed potatoes are needed, it will be more convenient to prepare it using a special plastic children's trowel;
- blender - can also be used if you prefer high-tech cooking methods.
Beginning to give the baby an apple, watch closely the reaction of the child's organism to it: whether there are rashes on the skin, stool disorders, increased gas production and colic. The allergy to apples in children is not so often, but still occurs. This especially applies to red apples - that's why the lure starts with green varieties. But the intolerance of raw apples to the children's digestive tract is not a rare phenomenon.
To prevent possible allergic reactions and digestive disorders, start the fruit lure not from raw, but from a baked apple.
How to bake an apple for a child?
Strong green apples of small size wash, cut into halves, remove the core. You do not need to peel the peel off. If the apples are very acidic, put 0,5 l. L. In the recesses from the cores. Sahara. Bake in a preheated oven for about 15 minutes. Ready to let the apples cool, remove the flesh with a spoon, mash it up in a cup and give it to the baby.
This is the simplest recipe, suitable for the youngest. As the crumb grows, it will be possible to improve and complicate it: for a change, bake apples with baby curd (from 8 months), cinnamon (closer to 2 years), honey (if there is no allergy on it), nuts from 5 years).
A baked apple for babies is a safe and useful product. Short heat treatment reduces the risk of allergic reactions, improves digestion of the product by the digestive tract, while at the same time, retaining most of the vitamins and trace elements contained in it.
Indulge in the beginning of your crumb baked apples, and in a few weeks, perhaps, there will come a time when you can give the child and a raw apple.