Porridge - one of the most useful dishes prepared from grain. It is good including at children's age, but here it is necessary to remember that for acquaintance to it there are certain restrictions.
Advantage of porridge
It is a source of cellulose and the proteins promoting digestion improvement and also more active set of weight. For this reason the feeding up with porridges is recommended to begin to the kids having a lack of weight. Also grits contain the mass of vitamins and minerals among which are present potassium, phosphorus, iron and not only. It is possible to prepare for the child as usual grits, and to use porridges for baby food. The last allow mom to save the time, to make porridges of uniform consistence and it is not less more useful at all than what is cooked from whole grain.
Children's porridge can be in addition enriched with vitamins and minerals and also to include dairy mix in the structure that should be considered at acquisition.
When it is possible to begin to give porridge to the child
In spite of the fact that grits softly envelop digestive tract, it rather heavy for digestion therefore to enter it earlier 5 or 6 months are not necessary. Also at porridge, as well as in other cereal grain, there is a gluten which is often the reason of allergic rashes. Therefore as the first feeding up usually choose rice, buckwheat or corn grain and only then pass to preparation of porridge. So in many respects the question from what age it is possible to give porridge to the child, depends on individual shipping of this component.
If gluten does not cause allergies, then from 6 months porridge can already be present at the kids menu regularly. Subsequently it can be diversified with various fruit additives.
How to cook porridge
Porridge to the child cooks as well as to the adult. But here it is necessary to consider that than the age is younger, especially on consistence porridge has to be gentle. Usually begin a feeding up with special children's porridges in which grain is ground in powder therefore for readiness of porridge it is enough to stir of it in hot water or the warmed-up milk in the proportions specified on a box. Preparation of porridge from usual flakes ""Oat-flakes"" borrows longer than time as they boil soft not earlier than in 5 minutes after boiling of water or milk. Gerkulesovy porridge should be cooked on small fire, stirring slowly. As for proportions, a lot of things depend on that how dense porridge is preferred by the child. Porridge will turn out more dense if to take more grain less liquid. At early age begin with a tablespoon of the grain razvarenny in 100 ml of water.