Instruction
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The potato is introduced in the feeding of children since the age of 4.5 months, if the baby is on mixed feeding and 6 months if breastfeeding. Typically, the potato is one of the first products of a vegetable sauce. To prepare the potato puree at home it is best to use the young roots and preferably from your garden. For child up to a year suitable for such methods of cooking as boiling potatoes in an enamel pot, baking in the oven, steaming.
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Small potato and boil whole in their skins. So can keep a larger number of useful properties of vegetable than cutting and lifting the skin. After cooking the potato peel, RUB through a sieve, add broth and warm.
3
In the potato puree , add milk (mixture), vegetable and a little well-chopped greens, if the age of the baby. If you bake the potatoes, after grinding it is also added milk, formula or just hot boiled water.
4
Add in the potato puree a few drops of vegetable oil (sunflower, olive, etc.) is possible only upon expiry of one month from the beginning of the vegetable sauce.
5
Always give your child only freshly prepared dish. Vegetable puree is stored in the refrigerator in a sealed container no longer than a day.
Note
Green spots on the fruit indicate the presence of solanine – a poisonous substance not to be applied in the food!
Useful advice
Potatoes has a positive effect on the cardio-vascular system, helps to maintain water balance in the body, promotes metabolism, relieves inflammation of the stomach mucosa and normalizes the digestive tract. However, starch, which constitutes about 20% of its composition, is not absorbed by the body in its pure form, so a child menu, the potatoes should be only 2-3 times a week.
