Watermelon – incredibly useful and tasty type of berry as biologists made the conclusion. But whether so equally it is useful to adults and children? Pediatricians have the opinion about a parental question from what age it is possible to give to the child watermelon.
Instruction
1. Small pieces of watermelon can begin to be given to the kid since one year. The first time it is possible to allow the child to try the water-melon juice which is squeezed out from berry pulp through a gauze. Or to mix it with apple juice habitual to the child. Give water-melon juice in day from 1-2 tablespoons, over time increasing this volume.
2. Do not insist that the child ate a watermelon piece if it does not seem to it tasty, and the kid persistently refuses a new product in food.
3. Make sure before giving watermelon to the child that berry does not contain nitrates. Tell too red color of pulp, white seeds which are coming across among black, yellow streaks among pink or red pulp about availability of dangerous enzymes in watermelon.
4. Buy watermelon from people who, you know, grew up it at the dacha. Or it is possible to buy watermelon in the market, but after the middle of August as too early watermelons are usually saturated with nitrates and chemical fertilizers. But do not take watermelon which is on sale near the road route as exhaust gases of cars have ability to get through a watermelon peel.
5. Before treating the child with watermelon carefully wash out berry in warm water with a brush. Give to the child pulp from the middle of berry as the most part of nitrates (if all of them are) is present at watermelon under a thin skin up to 3 cm in depth.
6. To children aged from a year up to two years, give water-melon pulp no more than 50 g. Children can give from two to three years 100 g of watermelon a day. And to those kids who are more than three years old – on 150 g a day.
7. Check whether is not present in pieces of water-melon pulp which you offer the child, sunflower seeds. The kid easily swallows them, without noticing, and can choke with them.