Pumpkin puree is a product which some of the first can include in the baby's diet as a feeding up. It meets three main requirements: safety, light comprehensibility and usefulness.
Advantage of pumpkin puree
Pumpkin vegetable puree is very useful for babies. Pumpkin is a vegetable which is enriched with nutrients and vitamins of group B. As a part of pumpkin iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium contain. Even at heat treatment it keeps in itself all the vitaminized structure. Pumpkin puree gentle, sweetish, it is to the taste to kids. The feeding up will be this product not only useful, but also pleasant.
How to cook pumpkin puree
Before preparation of puree pumpkin needs to be washed and peeled carefully, seeds. It is possible to cut gentle pulp in cubes of the average size. It is possible to cook pumpkin in two ways. To ship in the boiling water and to cook 30 minutes or to place in the double boiler for one hour. The second option is good the fact that pumpkin keeps the sweet and remains to more tasty, than after preparation in water. After pumpkin cooked, it needs to be cooled to 30-40os. It is better to crush the boiled pumpkin pieces the blender that mass was homogeneous and without lumps. It is possible to add a spoon of olive oil, breast milk or mix which the kid usually eats to the boiled and crushed pumpkin. It is possible to add a little egg yolk. To sweeten pumpkin there is no need. It sweet by nature, and excess sucrose can be harmful to the small child.
How to enter a feeding up
Nonmilk porridges or natural vegetables best of all will be suitable for the first feeding up. Pumpkin can become one of them. Vegetables soft puree is easily acquired by digestive system of the kid. It is important to remember that new products are entered into a diet in turn. Fed with one, several days observed, entered another. Simultaneous introduction of several products can cause at once allergic reaction, overload digestive system, break a metabolism. Gradually pumpkin puree can be combined with cereals and fruit. After it it is possible to use as a garnish for meat. The feeding up demands extra care not to overload digestive system. Depending on age of the kid you establish norm of a feeding up, in 4-5 month this norm is 1-2 spoons. Gradually the amount of puree increases. In a month the kid can eat up to 100 grams of pumpkin a day. It is better to enter into food of the kid pumpkin from 5 months. If the child is inclined to an allergy, then it is better to postpone acquaintance to pumpkin until 8 months.