Cottage cheese - a product which plays a huge role in baby food. Parents need to give it to the kids in reasonable quantities. Several times a week it can be included in the menu.
How often to give to the child cottage cheese
Cottage cheese - fermented milk product which contains a huge number of valuable components. It is vitamin-rich groups B, calcium. Cottage cheese is recommended to be entered into a children's diet from 8-9 months. If the first feeding up was entered before 6 months, it is possible to give to the kid fermented milk products from 7-8 months.
To begin to acquaint the child with cottage cheese it is necessary from its small amounts. Initially it is enough to enter into a diet on a half of a teaspoon of a product in day. By 1 year the kid can already receive up to 50 grams of cottage cheese a day. At the same time you should not give it daily to the child. It is the best of all to offer it every other day. The surplus of intake of calcium in an organism is also harmful, as well as its shortcoming.
The child aged up to 2 years has to receive about 60-80 grams of cottage cheese every other day. After achievement of 2 years by it the portion of fermented milk product intended for its food has to weigh already 100 grams. At the same time weekly the kid has to receive no more than 300 grams of cottage cheese. Thus, it is necessary to enter it into the child's diet 3 times a week. These recommendations are average. The local pediatrician is capable to correct them taking into account specific features of the child, his need for calcium and other minerals. So, for example, for kids with symptoms of the beginning rickets the daily inclusion of cottage cheese in a diet is admissible. At the same time it is better to use it together with vitamin D improving its comprehensibility.
What cottage cheese to give to kids
The cottage cheese intended for baby food has to differ in the highest quality. Unfortunately, in modern supermarkets and in the markets products not of the very first freshness often are on sale. For this reason for feeding of kids aged up to 2 years it is recommended to cook cottage cheese independently. For this purpose it is necessary to buy fresh milk, sour cream or kefir. It is necessary to add a tablespoon of sour cream or 100 milliliters of kefir to a glass of milk. Further it is necessary to keep the received mix at the room temperature within 3-5 hours then to pour out in a pan and to warm up. When milk begins to be displaced, it is necessary to switch off a plate, to filter mix through a gauze and to slightly wring out the turned-out cottage cheese. This recipe allows to prepare incredibly tasty and useful product with gentle consistence. In specialized shops and pharmacies, children's cottage cheeses are on sale. They can quite replace cottage cheese of a home cooking as producers let out them for the youngest age category. It is very convenient to buy them when the kid still also eats absolutely small on only 20-50 grams of fermented milk products. After 2 years it is possible to give to the kid cottage cheese of industrial production. At the same time it is necessary to pay attention to date of its release and an expiration date and also to flavoring characteristics.