It will be simplest to enter a sea-buckthorn into the child's diet to those mothers at whom children stretched to berry. In this case it is necessary just to limit the child to several berries for test and to look at reaction of an organism, the sea-buckthorn at all the advantage equally suits not all.
Sea-buckthorn and its useful properties
Healthy children, since 7-8 months, will only benefit from a sea-buckthorn, but those children who have diseases of a gall bladder, a liver or the increased acidity of gastric juice can injure the organism only.
The sea-buckthorn is considered one of the most useful berries of Siberia. It is vitamin-rich With, And, groups B, acids and tannins. In the people it is appreciated ability to keep not only flavoring, but also useful properties even after freezing. By right carries the names "wonderful berry" and "forest pharmacy". One of the most important properties of a sea-buckthorn is immunomodulatory. Besides, berries and sea-buckthorn oil help at violation of exchange processes, hypovitaminosis and diseases of skin.
She is capable and to help to be restored after a disease.
However, as well as many other useful berries, a sea-buckthorn can cause allergies in the child if is it in large numbers. However any product can practically be allergen, so it is impossible deprive of the child of so tasty and useful product.
How to feed the child with a sea-buckthorn
It is possible to give berry as in pure form, and in the form of juice, fruit drinks and syrups. It also is tasty, and it is useful. Berry in pure form, thanks to the high content of vitamin C (in a sea-buckthorn the mass fraction of this vitamin is even more than in a citrus) and acids, has a peculiar taste. And will agree to eat it not sweetened with sugar not only not any child, but the adult. But both for development of flavoring receptors, and for health of the kid, berries are capable to bring big advantage without sugar. Therefore not to fight thirst for knowledge off the child, and also to check reaction of an organism to a new product, the first time is better to be limited to one-two berries. The second option of how it is possible to diversify the menu of the child by means of a sea-buckthorn – introduction to a diet of juice, fruit drinks and syrups from this berry. Methods of preparation of fruit drink exists two: in one case on liter of water also sugar to taste undertakes a half-glass of berries. For preparation of fruit drink according to this recipe it is necessary to squeeze out juice from berries, to mix with sugar and water and to allow to infuse within two-three hours. The second option will demand slightly more efforts: juice needs to be squeezed out of a glass of berries, to mix a residue with liter of water and to make within 5–7 minutes. Then to filter, mix with juice and sugar (also to taste), to cool and give to the child. At preparation of juice from a sea-buckthorn it is necessary to remember that it is better to dilute drink in a proportion 1:3 for children about one year and 1:1 - for kids of advanced age. It is possible to dilute juice of a sea-buckthorn not only water, also apply apple, carrot or blackcurrant juice. For preparation of drink it is necessary to fill in the washed-out berries with water in the following proportion: on 1 kilogram of berry and to heat 2 glasses of water to 80 degrees within an hour. After that to wring out juice.
For storage it needs to be poured on the sterilized bottles.
Besides, you can master preparation of syrup from sea-buckthorn berries. For this purpose the liter of sea-buckthorn juice mixes up from 1.2-1.5 kg of sugar, heats up to 50 degrees and full dissolution of sugar. It is impossible to boil syrup at all. It is possible to drink with tea or just to part with water to children of one and a half years.