Familiar with our mothers all know
We often mention the impact of "sweetness" on children
Actually it is not just a sweet food
There are many dietary details
If you don't pay attention, you will make your children
Develop "heavy taste"
Today we will share some
The secret to make children "heavy taste"
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From our years of experience in adding and feeding guidance for complementary foods, children's diet tends to be heavy taste is the most difficult of various eating problems.
From our experience, it is the most difficult to correct the heavy taste of children after the age of 6. The children over 5 years old we come into contact with at work that need to correct taste problems, but the results are not good. It’s not that the method is wrong. The method is consistent with the principles to be said below. The poor effect is mainly due to the parents themselves. The older child means that the child has a stronger sense of independence. Parents need strong execution and firm will to correct their children’s bad dietary habits. However, the child’s eating problem was delayed until they were 6 years old to consider solving it, which also indirectly shows that the family’s health awareness, nutrition knowledge and other aspects are lacking.
So the following content is mainly for children under 6 years old.
I will list a few simple items. Interested parents can roughly judge the difficulty level they face if they want to correct their children's heavy taste problem. It should be noted that the evaluation content is roughly summarized by the children we come into contact with at work. Each child is a unique individual and each family is different. For example, when cooking, it cannot be said that all elderly people are accustomed to heavy oil and salt when cooking. It is just because people's taste deteriorates with age. This situation exists, so the following content is only used as a reference and cannot be used as a criterion for final judgment.
Baby over one year old:
. The difficulty of cooking at home +5
2. Parents are busy with work and have no time to cook for their children. The difficulty of cooking +3
3. Among family members, the members with the highest voice do not think that children like heavy-tasting foods will affect their health. Difficulty +2
4. Frequently take children out or eat takeout together, with a frequency of at least 3 or more times a week Difficulty +2
5. The cooking skills are poor, I can't cook, and I don't have the motivation to study and try Difficulty +2
6. The family relationship is tense. Difficulty +4
7. Every day, the child is in kindergarten or school, eat at least one meal. Difficulty +2
Baby under one year old:
, complementary food add no systematic planning, add what you think of Difficulty +2
2, mixed rice noodles with vegetable puree, meat puree, feed in a bowl. Difficulty +4
3, purchased commercially available finished fruit and vegetable puree, feed in a mixed rice flour. Difficulty +8
4, give bean , baby rice cakes, teeth grinding sticks, , pepper wood, puff and other baby snacks, teeth grinding sticks. Difficulty +5
5, purchased complementary food oil, sesame paste, finished meat floss, seaweed, etc. Every time you make complementary food, you have to put some Difficulty +8
6. How to watch on the Internet every day for baby supplementary food . Make it which is simple and which looks good and which looks delicious. Difficulty +3
7. I believe that the standard for making complementary food is that children like to eat and can finish it in big mouthfuls. As long as there is no oil or salt, it will taste light. Difficulty +2
In fact, after reading these problems, I roughly understand the reasons why children have heavy taste problems.When we look at the diet, we found that many children do not suddenly become heavy after one year old. Most children are wrongly added to complementary food by parents in the early stage of adding complementary food before one year old, and when the staple food transition from rice noodles to porridge or noodles between 9-12 months, the complementary food made by parents at this stage is not suitable for children, and some inappropriate response methods are taken when facing children's appetite fluctuations due to poor teething, swallowing-chewing transition or other reasons, which lays hidden dangers for children to like heavy food in the future.
So the following content is divided into two parts
. The "heavy taste" hidden dangers that are ignored when babies under one year old add complementary food
2. Babies over one year old What to do if you prefer heavy-tasting foods
1. The "heavy-tasting" that is ignored when babies under one year old add complementary foods - umami
In addition to the above-mentioned baby processed foods such as beans, teeth grinding sticks, baby rice cakes, puffs, cheese sticks , sesame paste, etc., some recipes for supplementary foods are often used in recipes made by supplementary foods. :
seaweed, seaweed, egg yolk, avocado, shrimp skin, mushroom powder, pork liver powder
such as the following:
shrimp meat + wakame html l2
Egg yolk + mushroom powder:
There is shrimp in the porridge, and seaweed black sesame powder and oil
Why do you say this? The above foods, egg yolks and avocados provide a plump taste of fat. If you don’t understand it, think about the descriptions of diners when salmon sashimi or wagyu when they are in the mouth.
Seaweed, seaweed, mushroom powder, and pork liver powder. The main function of putting it in complementary food is to "enhancing freshness". "Umbrella" is the most unique one in the Chinese diet. Studies have shown that sodium glutamate , sodium inosine, and sodium guanylate are the main sources of umami flavor. In addition, shellfish also contains a super fresh amino acid : sodium succinate. These umami ingredients are also present in some vegetables and fermented foods.
The characteristic of umami is that When foods rich in glutamic acid are combined with ingredients containing nucleotide , the taste intensity formed is higher than the total strength of these ingredients. In other words, these ingredients containing umami must be matched together to the freshest.
The above pictures are made of 9-month-old complementary foods I found on the Internet. Without exception, the combination of shrimp, egg yolk, wakame, mushroom powder, and carrots is used. The sweetness of sugar can enhance the umami flavor. Therefore, the combination of sweet ingredients such as carrots, pumpkin, water chestnuts, sweet potatoes and purple potatoes and the umami flavor is a fresh and sweet taste. This taste is very delicious with the flavor brought by oils such as meat, shrimp, egg yolks and other oils and proteins.
Compared with these complementary foods that have a strong aroma, fresh, sweet, soft and tender complementary foods, complementary foods made with green leafy vegetables appear rough, light, tasteless or slightly astringent. In short, it is neither fragrant nor sweet. It is rough and slightly astringent to swallow after taking a bite. So you will find that the complementary food methods of most young-month-aged babies on the Internet will hide green leafy vegetables in pasta, meatballs, , and small cakes, so that the rough green leafy vegetables can be mixed with dough and meat paste, so that the children will have a smooth taste when they enter the mouth and are easy to swallow.
You may ask me "Does it have a grudge against delicious food"? "Why can't you make complementary foods better? Children can only eat enough if they like to eat them?" "If you do this, how can complementary foods not taste good? Can children love them?"
What we are easy for us to ignore is that adults can easily tell which one likes to eat and which one they don't like to eat.But for a child, he is limited by development and cannot determine which one he likes when he is very young, but he can be very sure which one he hates.
Children will express their rejection by crying, shaking their heads, twisting their heads, throwing them away, etc. In addition, children often have a sense of fear of new things out of instinct when they are 3 years old, so if children get used to umami, they will be very repulsive to light and tasteless foods and slightly astringent foods.
The problem of heavy taste in babies under one year old is relatively easy to solve. The younger the child is, the easier it is to correct it. This is because first, the child is young and has less independent consciousness. He just added complementary foods. After all, the ingredients are mostly the original flavor. He did not use salt, sugar and other seasonings. Most of them are the choice of ingredients for parents. The combination of various ingredients is not done well. In addition, some wrong feeding details cause the child to swallow and chew poorly, causing the child to have various problems such as picky eating, partial eating, etc., and not eating well.
So as long as parents realize this problem, adjust the methods and combinations of complementary foods, and pay attention to some feeding details, the children will soon be significantly improved.
2. Babies over one year old tend to have heavy-tasting foods. What should I do?
If babies over one year old like sweet and greasy foods, the reasons are basically because the above mentioned that the supplementary food was not prepared in the early stage of adding complementary foods before one year old. After one year old, parents did not control the amount of seasonings, etc. The main reasons are as follows:
. Swallowing-chewing transition is not done well. Children eat poorly. Parents think it is the reason for the taste, so they add various condiments
2. Try adult meals too early
3. Fruits and snacks are not controlled
4. Fresh and snacks often buy commercially available steamed buns, wontons, Dumplings, cucumber , char siu buns, etc., for children to eat
5. Do not pay attention to the complementary diet of kindergartens and family diets
So babies over one year old need to correct the problem of heavy taste, and the difficulty will increase with age. After the "terrible two years old", the stage where the child has the strongest independent consciousness, after the age of 3, the child enters kindergarten, and adds a change like eating in kindergarten, which makes it even more difficult for children to correct it.
It is best to solve the problem of children's eating as soon as possible before the child is 2 years old, the earlier the better.
We have shared very detailed content about these precautions. Interested parents can check it out:
How to choose snacks and formulate principles for eating snacks
Can't eat enough, don't make a fuss, go out and want it, what should the baby do if he eats snacks?
Frequently eat outside and buy children's wontons, dumplings, stuffed buns, cucumber batters, etc. sold on the market. Some parents say they don't have time to do it, while some parents say they can't make it. We do not mean that we cannot give our children any of these, but we should pay attention to the combination and frequency of eating. Some parents give them every day and every meal, because they are easy to deal with and convenient. Before I knew it, children got used to it. Although they were marked as children's food, they were still very greasy and too salty food, and it was inevitable that they would develop heavy tastes.
Make complementary food yourself or buy ready-made food? Wan Dad has something to say
The same is true for letting the child eat with the whole family early. I don’t know how to do it and don’t have time to do it. I feel that there is no need to do it for my child alone. I want to save trouble, but I can’t eat it together. I cook according to the taste and nutritional needs of my child. It is not for adults to make it according to the taste of my child, but for the child to adapt to the taste of my child. It is inevitable that my child likes heavy-tasting foods. Because people's taste is degenerate, and adults and children also have different needs for sodium. Adults feel a very light taste, which is already a very heavy taste for children. Therefore, if the child eats with the whole family and does not pay attention to cooking, the intake of oil and salt will definitely exceed the standard.
Finally, if children's heavy taste adjustments are not professionally guided, it will be difficult to achieve ideal results unless the parents have firm determination. Most children who like heavy-taste foods also do not like to drink plain water, swallow more and chew less, eat poor vegetables, have a lot of snacks, like to eat fruits, and even rely on milk and fruits to eat without complementary foods. Heavy taste is just one of many eating problems. Parents often use the method of adding less salt when cooking dishes and eating light diet to adjust. However, when children do not eat light foods, and even cry and refuse to eat when they see food without flavor, parents cannot deal with it. They are worried that their children will not eat and starve their bodies, which will affect their health, and cannot withstand the pressure of other family members. They are easy to compromise and cannot continue. This is also the most difficult part when correcting children's heavy taste problems.
In short, after realizing that children like sweet, soft, and greasy foods, they need to observe and analyze first to see what causes the child, and then change and adjust in a targeted manner and adhere to the principles to make good changes.
