Experts claim that mushroom soup can be offered the child for the first time at the age of 7-8 years. It is better if the used mushrooms are champignons, and soup will be vegetable on the mushroom diluted broth. Mushroom dishes belong to ""heavy"" in assimilation.
Pediatricians quite often establish the facts of poisoning with mushrooms of children of preschool age, and business even not in their virulence. Years can talk about final formation of children's digestive system to eight, and even at this age to resist to different intoxications to a children's organism very difficult.
Mushrooms in a children's diet: pros and cons
It is difficult to challenge advantage of mushrooms, they really are a source of vegetable protein, cellulose, valuable vitamins and minerals. Potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, sodium are not all list of the useful substances which are in mushrooms. By quantity and quality of the minerals which are a part of mushrooms, scientists equate them to fruit, protein allows mushrooms to replace meat on nutritiousness, and carbohydrates are vegetables. Such substances as beta glucans and melanin make positive impact on immunity and prevent developing of malignant tumors.
However, to reach valuable structure of mushrooms, digestive system should work seriously. The complexity of assimilation of this product is available substances – fungin. The chemical composition of a fungin is similar to the chitin which is a part of an armor of crayfish, crabs, snails and some insects. Such task sometimes happens it cannot do even to an adult organism, and children of preschool age have not enough in a stomach of enzymes necessary for this purpose. Food fibers of mushrooms have rough structure too that complicates their assimilation by a children's organism. Besides the spongy structure of mushrooms often is that invoice which absorbs in itself toxins from the environment. Alas, the condition of the woods wishes the best today. Even if parents made the decision to feed the child with mushroom soup, then it is better to weld it not from forest representatives, and from hothouse champignons or oyster mushrooms.
What to begin with
Optimum age when it is possible to feed the child with mushroom soup are 7-8 years. Some parents at own risk begin years with five, but in this case it is impossible to offer the soup cooked for all family at all. The first in life of the kid mushroom soup has to contain not mushrooms, and only their broth with a set of vegetables, habitual for it. It can be cream soup, besides mushroom broth for its preparation needs to be diluted twice with water. The mushroom aroma is so strong that it by all means will draw attention of the child to a new dish. It is gradually possible to enter the crushed mushrooms into a children's diet, but nutritionists recommend to add cream to mushroom soup. They will make first course more gentle to taste and will facilitate its assimilation. It is necessary to tell that not all mushrooms are suitable for baby food. It will be more correct to begin with champignons as they do not contain toxins and are considered as easier in respect of assimilation. Important not to force an event and the first time to offer the child a small portion, having observed his reaction. Even if everything is all right, mushroom soup is not recommended to give to children more often than 1 time in 2 - 3 weeks.