Summer is the best time to eat watermelon. Watermelon has a high moisture content, so it can help relieve heat. However, the baby still needs to pay attention to eating watermelon, do not eat too much at one time, and you can't give the baby to eat ice watermelon!
How much baby can eat watermelon
Normally exclusively breast-fed babies are advised to add supplementary foods after 6 months, and if they are mixed or artificially fed for 4 months, they can be added.
If your baby is exclusively breastfeeding, it is recommended that you don’t feed him watermelon for the time being. Adding food supplements prematurely is not particularly good for the baby's digestive tract. If your baby is a mixed or artificial feeding, then you can feed a little watermelon juice: Put the watermelon tart in a bowl, smash it with a spoon, filter it with gauze, and give the baby juice. More suitable for baby drinking in summer.
However, after all, watermelon is a product of Gan Han, and now it is not very hot in the sky. It is best not to give your baby more food. In addition, the watermelon is sweet, too early, eat more is not conducive to cultivate baby's light taste of eating habits.
The benefits of baby eating watermelon
1, watermelon not only contains vitamin B1, vitamin C, sugar, iron and other nutrients, but also eat watermelon in summer to increase appetite, swelling and diuretic effect. Under normal circumstances, baby eating watermelon is not diarrhea, if the baby is still small, it is best to add from the watermelon juice.
2, watermelon can be hot and dry weather, in addition to trouble and thirst. Water contains a lot of moisture in the watermelon, the baby thirst and sweating, irritability, eat a piece of sweet and sandy, full of water, watermelon, immediately improve symptoms.
3, after eating watermelon, urine output will increase significantly, which can reduce the content of bile pigment, and can make the stool smooth, have a certain effect on the treatment of baby jaundice.
4, fresh watermelon juice and fresh melon skin can increase skin elasticity, add luster.
Is it good for your baby to eat watermelon or drink watermelon juice?
After the watermelon juice, the soluble part was left in the juice, and the insoluble material was left in the trash. Therefore, although freshly squeezed watermelon juice retains Vitamins, potassium, soluble dietary fiber and other ingredients, most of the dietary fiber, as well as some of the calcium, magnesium and other minerals combined with dietary fiber are lost.
The freshly squeezed watermelon juice has the best nutritional value. For a baby who has already developed a molar to chew, it is of course better to give the baby a direct watermelon.
There are four key points for baby to eat watermelon.
1, watermelon eat more easily diarrhea, so it must be a small amount at the beginning. Watermelon is a cold food, the baby eating more watermelon in a short time, will cause gastric juice dilution, coupled with the baby's digestive function is not fully developed, there will be serious gastrointestinal disorders, causing vomiting, diarrhea, resulting in dehydration, acidosis Other symptoms are life-threatening. If the baby has diarrhea, it is even more difficult to feed watermelon.
2, watermelon is a summer fruit, winter should not eat. When eating watermelon in summer, try to choose ripe, fresh watermelon. For the baby's gastrointestinal health, the baby must clean the watermelon seeds when eating watermelon, so as to avoid constipation or misidentification of melon seeds into the trachea.
3, do not give the baby to eat iced watermelon, do not eat watermelon just out from the refrigerator.
4, heart failure or nephritis The baby should not eat more watermelon, so as not to increase the burden on the heart and kidneys, so that the condition worsened.
How does mother pick good watermelon: See 7 details
Look at the size: the same variety of watermelon, the larger ones tend to be smaller than the sweet ones, but also because the maturity of the big melons will be better.
Look at the melon: The surface of the watermelon peel is smooth and translucent, the pattern is clear, and the color of the piece that touches the ground is yellow, so the melon is ripe melon. The surface of the melon skin feels astringent, even with hair, the skin color is dark and the texture is unclear. It is an unfamiliar melon.
Look at the color: the melon skin is dark green, with clear green and light stripes. It is ripe melon; it is dark and dark, and its texture is unclear. It is raw melon.
Look at the melon vines: The melon vines are well-hydrated, fresh greenish blue, and still covered with shaggy hair, which proves that the melons are raw.
Look at melon umbilical: melon umbilical round and flat, or melon umbilical slightly sunken and full symmetrical around, is a sweet melon. If the body is not round, the head is large or small, or the tail is thick, such melons often have poor taste and poor sweetness.
Look at the experiment: Take a big pot, fill it with water and put it in a watermelon. The melon that floats on top is ripe melon and sink into the bottom of the water is raw melon.
Look at melon seeds: If it is a large number of watermelons listed in the season, the seeds of ordinary watermelon have large and full, bright black color, if you buy half a watermelon, if black seeds are full of melon seeds can be used as an important indicator to pick melons .
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