If the baby was six months old, it's time to introduce solid foods. Modern pediatricians recommend starting with vegetables and most often it is a tavern. How to properly select and prepare?
Up to six months the baby does not need complementary foods, as their mother's milk takes all useful vitamins and minerals, but after six months, if there is interest in the food and some of the other signs, I am ready to get acquainted with the new food. Now zucchini season, so it is best to start with him, because much more useful fresh vegetable canned puree.
How useful zucchini?
Zucchini - is absolutely safe, it does not cause allergies, does not overload and do not irritate the stomach, which is why it is usually first introduced into the diet grudnichka. In the pub contains pectins, substances, iron, potassium, magnesium, vitamin C and B. Due to the high content of mineral substances, vegetable has a tonic effect.
How to choose a pub?
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If you're buying vegetables at the market or in the shop, you need to carefully choose them, and before preparing dipped in cold salt water for an hour or two, to remove nitrates and other harmful substances. To prepare the sauce, choose young courgettes small size with a thin skin. Vegetables should be flat and smooth, without spots and cracks.
If you're buying vegetables at the market or in the shop, you need to carefully choose them, and before preparing dipped in cold salt water for an hour or two, to remove nitrates and other harmful substances.
How to prepare and enter
Zucchini can boil about 15 minutes in water or steamed, and then kill in a blender. To puree it was not too thick, dilute it with vegetable broth in which the cooked zucchini or breast milk. If you do not have a blender, you can wipe the zucchini through a conventional strainer, as long as the consistency is uniform and no lumps.
Introducing a new product during the feeding start with a teaspoon and gradually adjusted to full servings for about one and a half to two weeks. Noma puree and zucchini for a child six months - 150 -170 g, but all individually and depends on the crumbs of appetite. Remember, your job is not to feed the baby, but only to introduce him to the new products, so if the baby spits up or refuses, put the lure in the week.
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