Nutritional Carrot Meat Crispy for Children

Qualified children's nutritious carrot meat cake is a good choice for supplementing high iron and β-carotene in the complementary food stage for babies over 8 months old. For commercially available products, priority is given to infant-labeled products whose first three ingredients are livestock and poultry meat, carrots, and edible vegetable oil. It is easy to make your own if you have time. There is no need to mythologize its efficacy, and there is no need to beat it to death and say it is not as good as fresh meat.

When my baby was just starting to add minced food, I followed the trend and stocked up on 3 popular models. Later I found that one of them had cod fish meal and my baby got rash after eating it, so I just tried to make it on my own for almost a year. The holes I stepped on can fit half a crisper. I can almost understand the questions that the mothers around me ask the most.

The mom circle has actually been arguing for a long time about whether this thing can be bought. One group is a resolute self-made person. They feel that the commercially available products must have hidden preservatives and hidden salts. It would be irresponsible to give them to children. ； The other group is the worry-free group. They believe that as long as the product meets the infant label and has strict hygiene and nutritional indicators, it is safer than making it yourself without controlling the heat and storing spoiled products. The two hours saved in kneading the dough and frying the meat will be great for building blocks with your baby, right? In fact, both sides are reasonable, and it all depends on your own situation.

Last month, I helped my best friend screen products. She sent me a certain "Children's Carrot Meat Crispy" with a sales volume of 100,000+. I clicked on the ingredient list and saw that the first place was pea flour, the second was pork, and the carrots were listed after the additives. White sugar and edible salt were also added. This is not meat crispy at all, it is just a seasoned noodle crisp with some meaty flavor. Eating it to a baby under 1 year old is purely IQ tax. In fact, it’s really not that complicated to choose a commercial product. Just check to see if there is an infant supplement standard marked with GB 10769 or GB 22570. As long as it is marked with these two numbers, the content of salt, sugar, and additives will be very tight, and there will be no big mistakes. Then scan the ingredient list. Meat is at the top, carrots are in the top three, and there are no additional flavors, preservatives, or edible salt (choose the salt-free version within 1 year old), and you can basically buy it. The qualified model I stocked up on before, I put it in a small box when I take my baby out, and when I eat out, I order a bowl of white porridge and sprinkle half a spoon on it. The baby can drink a bowl of white porridge without even touching it, which saves me a lot of trouble in finding complementary foods outside.

If you usually have a lot of time to cook, it’s really not difficult to make it yourself. The recipe I usually use doesn’t even have complicated steps: remove the white membrane from the pork loin and cut it into small pieces. Add two slices of ginger in cold water and cook for 20 minutes. Take it out, put it in a plastic bag and beat it into small pieces with a rolling pin, and put it on a flat bottom. Stir-fry in a pot over low heat until it feels semi-dry and not sticky to the touch. Add the soft carrot pieces that have been steamed for 15 minutes in advance and throw them into a food mixer. Once fluffy, return to the pot and stir-fry for three to five minutes. Once completely cool, put it in an airtight jar. It can be refrigerated for a week or frozen for a month. Oh, by the way, the first time I made it, I stepped on a big pit, fried it too dry, and it was full of hard residue that hurt my hands. My baby got stuck after taking a bite and coughed. I was so scared that I didn't dare to touch it for several days. Later, I asked a food blogger in the same neighborhood and found out that it only needs to be stir-fried until it becomes loose when pinched and will not form a ball and stick to my hands. The carrots must be steamed until they are rotten when poked, otherwise the baby will easily get stuck after eating it.

Some people say that processed meat puff pastry is not as nutritious as fresh meat. This is indeed true. Part of the B vitamins will be lost during the high-temperature frying process, but you can’t resist its use. After all, the iron in meat puff pastry is heme iron that is easy to absorb. It is much better than making the meat paste for your baby three times and spitting it out. If you sprinkle it on rice, noodles, and porridge, it will supplement the nutrition. Some people used to worry that carrots need to be fried with oil to release beta-carotene. I specifically contacted the Department of Pediatric Nutrition and asked. As long as it is eaten with fat-containing foods, it does not have to be fried. The meat cake itself has the fat in the meat or the added vegetable oil. There is no problem in absorbing it, so there is no need to worry.

I am now half and half. If I have to work overtime this week to catch up on a project, I will use what is available on the market. If I have time on the weekend, I will make a can. I really don’t have to worry about making it 100% homemade to be called a good mother. Oh, by the way, a reminder, whether it is commercially available or homemade, do not feed it to your baby. A maximum of 10g per day is enough. After all, no matter how low the sodium content is, eating too much will still increase the burden on the kidneys. If your baby is allergic to carrots, don't just look at the word "nutrition" and buy it blindly. Just buy pure meat puff pastry.

Anyway, many mothers around me struggled with it for a long time, but later they tried it, whether it was bought or made by themselves. If the baby likes to eat it and there is no problem after eating it, it is good. There is really no need to go back and forth for a meat roll. After raising a baby, you can do it as much as possible, right?