In autumn and winter, when the amount of fruits and vegetables in the diet decreases the baby, dried fruits come to the aid of her mother. First, they are useful. And secondly, one can prepare a lot of interesting and, most importantly, delicious food.
But some dried fruit to choose? For example, it is useful - dried apricots or prunes? These questions raised by many moms. Culinary version of the site Kolobok.ua now ready to answer them.
Dried apricots and kids
Dried apricots - an amazing product. The dried fruit all useful vitamins and minerals that are in the apricots: iron, phosphorus, potassium, beta carotene, etc. But most importantly, with the regular use of dried apricots in children:
• increases the level of hemoglobin;
• strengthens the immune system;
• improves the function of the heart;
• there is a growth of favorable intestinal microflora, which allows to get rid of constipation;
• improves brain activity, which is reflected positively on the assimilation of schoolchildren and preschoolers educational material.
How to Choose apricots? Naturally, attention is attracted by the beautiful moms usually dried apricots bright color. While useful dried apricots is matte and dull, but on the berries should be no brown spots or points.
What to cook from dried apricots
One of the most popular is compote of dried apricots. To prepare it, take 100 grams of dried apricots, rinse and fill with boiling water. Cover and lid reserve infuse 1-2 hours. In the finished compote add honey. Healthy drink for the baby ready.
By the way, this compote is best cooked in a thermos: in this case, dried apricots give all the nutrients a drink 100%.
To prepare sauce of dried apricots to meat, pasta or casserole take dried apricots, wash them and fill with boiling water. Boil for 5 minutes. Then grind apricots blender, add broth in which it is boiled. Sweet and sour sauce ready. Mothers and fathers this sauce is also possible to eat with great pleasure.
prunes
dried plums not less useful than apricots. However, nutritionists point out that with the regular use of food seen a few other useful properties than in the use of dried apricots. Namely:
• prunes exerts antibacterial effects: it reduces growth of Staphylococcus, Salmonella and Escherichia coli;
• has choleretic and diuretic effects;
• establishes the gastrointestinal tract;
• helps with the breakdown, vitamin deficiency, reduced efficiency;
• also removes toxins from the body, which is extremely important during the child's disease virus infections.
How to choose the prune? Approach to the selection of dried plums is particularly careful not to buy a product made on the basis of liquid smoke. Plum fruit must be black, matt, odorless smoked. And it is best to choose the prunes with bone: in these fruits is less developed disease-causing microbes.
What to cook prunes
Candy.Resist this delicacy are neither children nor adults. For its preparation will need: prunes - 150 g, dates - 100 g, of walnuts - 100 g, honey - optionally cocoa.
Grind in a blender prunes, nuts and dates. Stir. And shaping candies, which roll in cocoa. If the child can not eat cocoa, charge 100 g of oat flakes and dried to a dry pan until golden brown. Then the flakes are ground in a blender and run in them candy.
You can also please the children unusual jelly. For the preparation of need: cream - 300 ml, prunes - 100 g of gelatin - 20 g, honey - on request.
Prunes grind in a blender. Gelatin fill with cold water and leave for 10 minutes to swell. Sour cream Preheat over medium heat, introduce gelatine, pour chopped prunes and add honey. All we mix and poured into formochkam. Put in the fridge for 3 hours.
So, what is useful - dried apricots or prunes? Nutritionists confidently answer: dried fruits, both are necessary in a child's diet. The most important thing when using them for food - is the norm. Namely, the child should eat in a day not more than 5 dried fruits. And then all the diseases yield to such protection the child's body.
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