New Dietary Guidelines: Meat puree is very important at the beginning of supplementary food for infants and young children

Our reporter He Xiao

The core recommendation of the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)" infant and young child feeding guidelines proposes that "first add iron-rich mashed foods such as meat puree, liver puree, and iron-fortified infant cereal powder"

Single breastfeeding can no longer fully meet the growth and development needs of 6-month-old infants.

Adding complementary foods is a gradual process and does not require a fixed sequence

It should be noted that iron supplementation for infants does not mean that infants can absorb it

Wang Zhixu said that when supplementary food is added at the beginning, you can gradually try pureed meat, and choose the food that is better digested according to the baby's situation, but do not deliberately delay the time of adding animal food

As for the addition time of infant complementary food, healthy infants within 6 months of age advocate exclusive breastfeeding, and continue breastfeeding to 2 years old on the basis of adding complementary food on time.

Sheng Xiaoyang said that some infants need individualized treatment, such as infants with allergies or high-risk allergies, and they cannot continue breastfeeding due to insufficient breast milk.

There are also many parents who like to make complementary foods for their babies at home, thinking that homemade fruit purees and rice cereals are natural and have no additives

Experts also remind that when purchasing ingredients or commercial complementary foods, you need to read food labels carefully and avoid high-sugar and high-salt products

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How to make puree food supplements? The choice of food should be based on the principle of being digestible and nutritious

Rice cereal: You can directly choose the commercially available fortified iron infant rice flour.

Liver puree and meat puree: Wash and cut the pig liver, scrape out the liver puree on the section with a knife, or chop the chicken liver and pig liver after removing the fascia, and steam or cook it

"China Food News" (May 19, 2022 06 edition)

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