Do you know how to choose a good baby powder?

What good weaning powder is always a question that many mothers are interested in, wondering when their children are about to learn to eat. In fact, it is difficult to answer the exact answer as there are now so many types of weaning powders available as well as homemade mother powder

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Which powdered food is good: ready-made or homemade flour?

Notes on infant food miles

All baby formula powders  are designed to make it easier for your baby to transition from liquid milk to solid food. Powdered snacks also help babies learn to get acquainted as well as discover many new tastes. At the same time, meeting the increasing nutritional needs of children when milk is no longer the only source of food. Accordingly, any good weaning powder must meet the following conditions:

Ensure adequate essential nutrients such as vitamins (A, B, K ...), minerals (calcium, magnesium, phosphorus), amino acids ....

Taste with children. This will help your baby eat more and more deliciously.

Easy to digest and absorb well. So after using, the baby will gain weight steadily, have good health and resistance.

Choosing baby powder is not easy

Which powdered food is good: ready-made or homemade flour?

There are too many types of flour on the market, from domestic to imported products and also in cases of self-made wafers. Each type will have its own advantages and disadvantages. Depending on needs, mothers can choose the most suitable weaning powder for babies.

1. Packing powder

Advantages

Fast, compact: Pre-packaged snacks will be the first choice for busy mothers who do not have much time to cook by themselves. Mom just buys and performs the preparation steps as instructed to have a quick bowl of powder for the baby.

Many choices: Some brands also diversify flavors as well as increase the ability to choose according to the needs of mothers and babies. By producing their own jars of flour and accompanied by jars of meat, vegetables, fruits ... so that the mother can mix according to the ratio or preferences of each baby.

The nutritional composition of the ready-made powders is relatively high, with many micronutrients and minerals that are essential for your baby's development .

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Defect

Ready-made wafers are available in many different flavors, which makes it difficult for babies to accept when they start to eat solids. Therefore, after a long time using ready-made powder, the baby will show signs of shutting up, anorexia. To improve this problem, mothers often feed their children with sweet flour first, it also makes it easier for children to eat, but MSG is often lacking in protein content.

Children cannot feel the delicious taste of each individual food, over time they will get bored and stop eating.

Nutritional ingredients, especially the protein content of ready-made flour is 2 times less than that of homemade snack powder.

The cost of ready-made flour is relatively high, especially for imported products.

2. Self-cooked weaning flour

Advantages

Ensure adequate supply of important nutrients for the baby, helping the child develop comprehensively

Easily change ingredients, taste to suit children's needs

Minimize the situation of  children anorexia  in the future.

Self-cooking flour will help mothers save a lot of money

Defect

Unlike ready-made flour, home-cooked flour has only a few disadvantages: it takes a lot of time and effort to prepare. Self-cooked snack powders cannot be stored for long.

How to cook nutritious porridge for babies "grow up quickly like blowing" In order for your child to eat or grow up quickly in the weaning stage, mothers need to know how to cook nutritious porridge for the baby. Especially, this menu must be varied, suitable for the nutritional needs and digestive system of the baby according to each month of age.

Notes on infant food miles

When using ready-made dough, mothers need to learn the ingredients in the flour, how to use it. Especially buying from reputable manufacturers to ensure quality

Feed your baby thin powder then until thick as you get used to it and the powder is sweet to salty

When you start eating, you should only feed your baby all kinds of units or up to 2 flavors together such as: rice flour, barley flour or milk rice flour, barley flour with milk ...

Do not give your child a certain type of flour or food because it will make the baby bored and not want to eat

Combining the use of ready-made flour with home-cooked mother powder helps to both change the taste and add essential nutrients.

Weaning is just a snack, breastmilk is still the baby's main source of food during this period

Children should only eat little by little and do not force them to eat, the amount of food will increase as the baby gets older

Each ready-made or homemade weaning powder is very good, so don't be too nervous when trying to find the best snack powder for your baby. Only when mothers know how to combine foods together and know how to feed their babies properly, will the baby develop healthy and intelligent.