How to make spinach puree for baby

When an expectant mother needs to enter the workplace, a baby who is still breastfeeding after six months needs to add some complementary foods. Because the mother is not around often, the baby's nutrition intake is increasing, and adding complementary foods is a necessary process. In addition to rice noodles, baby food supplements should also include vegetable puree, and it is best for mothers to make it themselves. So how do you make spinach puree for your baby?

1. Ingredients: spinach, salt.

2. Method: Wash two spinach leaves. Soak in salt water for half an hour. Bring half a pot of water to a boil. Add spinach and blanch. fish out. Add a small amount of water to the pot and put the spinach in. The water should be enough to cover the spinach. Cook for 1 minute after the water boils. Remove the spinach, remove the stems and leave the leaves, cut into small pieces and place in a small bowl for later use. Pour the water used to cook spinach into a bottle and let it cool before giving it to your baby. Mash the spinach in a small bowl, or use a blender to grind it and filter out the puree.

Of course, spinach puree can be fed directly to babies, but babies over 6 months old have already started to have their own preferences. If the baby does not like spinach puree, mothers should not force the baby to eat it. Or you can mix spinach puree into rice paste for the baby to eat, or cook it into spinach puree noodles for the baby to eat. However, if the baby really does not like the taste of spinach, do not force the baby to eat it, so as to prevent the baby from being disgusted with all complementary foods, which will cause more headaches when feeding complementary foods in the future.

Nutritional value of baby spinach puree

1. The carotene contained in spinach is converted into vitamin A in the human body, which can maintain normal vision and the health of epithelial cells, increase the ability to prevent infectious diseases, and promote the growth and development of children.

2. Spinach protects eyesight mainly because it contains a carotenoid substance that can prevent retinal damage caused by sunlight. Eating spinach 2 to 4 times a week can reduce the risk of retinal degeneration. The content of protein, riboflavin, and inorganic salts such as iron and phosphorus in spinach is higher than that in many vegetables. These ingredients have health benefits for the eyes.

3. Spinach is rich in carotene, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus and a certain amount of iron, vitamin E and other beneficial ingredients, which can provide the human body with a variety of nutrients; the iron it contains can effectively prevent iron deficiency anemia.

4. Spinach contains a large amount of plant crude fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis, facilitate defecation, promote pancreatic secretion, and help digestion.

5. The trace elements contained in spinach can promote human metabolism and improve physical health.

It can be seen that spinach puree is a very good complementary food for babies. Mothers can try to make it for their babies and let them experience the joy of delicious food.

When can babies eat spinach puree?

For babies who are breastfed within 4 months, the content of nutrients in the mother's diet directly affects the content of nutrients in breast milk. Therefore, as long as the mother eats more vegetables and fruits rich in nutrients, the baby does not need to be fed vegetable juice. However, for babies who are bottle-fed, because the content of vitamin C in milk is extremely low, they should be fed some vegetable juice frequently to supplement vitamin C. Vegetables also contain many inorganic salts that are closely related to the health of infants, such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc. Since these nutrients are insoluble in water and cannot be absorbed from vegetable juice, it is necessary to puree or chop the vegetables before feeding them to babies. After 4 months, breast milk can no longer meet the growth and development needs of breastfed babies, and complementary foods must be added. Therefore, no matter which feeding method the baby is in, he should eat some vegetable puree regularly when he is 4-6 months old.

Every baby grows and develops at a different rate, so the time to add complementary foods cannot be generalized. Generally speaking, you can start adding complementary foods when the baby is 4-6 months old. If the baby really doesn’t like complementary foods and only likes milk or breast milk, mothers should not be too anxious and just let nature take its course.