Food of the child of any age – a headache of mom. Especially difficult with remains which only grow up and gain strength. Responsibility for drawing up the correct and balanced menu for the child falls on parents. Porridge is considered one of the most useful breakfasts.
The most useful porridges
The most useful and vitamin-rich and minerals can call buckwheat cereal. It contains iron, calcium group B vitamins. One more undoubted plus of buckwheat is that starch content at it is less, than in other grain.
Porridge by right ranks second in the rating of useful porridges. The portion of porridge eaten by the kid for breakfast will provide it with necessary energy as the dish contains a significant amount of carbohydrates. In addition porridge well influences a GIT and promotes normal functioning of an organism in general. It is impossible to forget also that porridge contains a number of useful minerals: phosphorus, iron, potassium and others.
Rating rice porridge which is a quite good power source, thanks to the content of carbohydrates ranks third. Such minerals as magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and calcium are also present at rice porridge. From what the advantage of rice porridge will be to veil the only thing, – what grain is used for its preparation. For feeding of the child it is recommended to take long-grain rice as it contains less starch in the structure. Before letting the child some porridge costs think about its impact on digestive system. For example, buckwheat and oat porridges has poslablyayushchy effect, and here rice, on the contrary, fixes and can become the lock reason at the kid. If to speak about other grain, then they are less useful, than listed above. In other porridges the content of starch is many times higher, than in buckwheat, porridge and rice, and it can negatively affect the growing organism. As starch increases sugar level in blood. By the way, "worst" from this point of view is semolina porridge which was considered as one of the main in the menu of the kid earlier.
How to cook porridge for the kid
After the first year of birth it is recommended to pass from porridges of industrial production to homemade food. Before starting cooking grain needs to be washed out. Then to pour out in the begun to boil water and to cook, periodically stirring slowly, to semi-readiness. Further to fill in grain with milk and to boil. To make porridge of more tasty it is possible to add a little sugar to it, but if the kid well eats a perstny dish, then once again it is not recommended to accustom him to sweet. Flavoring habits are formed since childhood, and the later the child will taste sweet, the better.