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Bringing fruit to children's diets
It should provide children with quality parts to prevent them from abandoning the habit of eating fruits.
Fruits in the diets of children are a special supply of vitamins, antioxidants and water, with only 60-80 calories per piece. Choose them also means ruling out other options and, if it is estimated that a unit of pastry contains 250 calories, composed mainly of sugars and fats, the selection is healthy. Knowing its advantages, success is achieved they are picked from the will and satisfaction. You can get it. There are different ways to conquer the palate of children.
Fruit quality and seasonal
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Fruit is the second food, then the milk, which tastes the palate child. In general, achieves a high degree of acceptance. However, when the diet began to diversify into other foods, the celebration was received with the slurry begins to disappear. How can keep the taste? There are no tricks, but some guidelines.
As the doctor indicates the introduction of new foods, eating fruit will be smaller. The 200 grams of food he was able to eat the child as a snack, not only add to the milk, but are added to foods more satiating and complex. So, do not insist that the child eats the same amount, but must not kick the habit of always snacking fruit, even a small piece or part, or before a snack. This is the first pattern.
An important ally to establish the habit is to always offer taste quality parts with good looks, good color, good taste and at the time of ripeness. The most effective is to pick fruit in season. More likely to eat a fresh watermelon, a peach scented, smooth a tangerine, banana or even some cherries without blows. It is not a trivial matter. A bad memory associated with fruit intake causes a strong rejection also extends to other fruits of the same family. If a bad experience with a peach, the memory includes apricots and nectarines.
Taste, texture and aroma
A study by the University of Vigo on the perception of flavors in the age, led by Carnero González, stated that the infant palate soon reaches maturity. Although the child is not able to distinguish the name of taste, is able to discriminate. Among them, the sweet is the most immediate, the most basic. Therefore, when other than the sweet taste of the fruit, they tend to identify both perceptions and justify a choice. It is usual to leave the fruit. To avoid this, should give the piece its own personality. If you have to choose, both options will be fruit.
The palate child is capable of discriminating tastes, though the child is not able to distinguish their names
Another important guideline is to match the mode of presentation. Some children like fruit alone, while others prefer Macedonian, chopped, peeled or unpeeled. The way they take the fruit is not conclusive, but should not be considered as a fruit juice, much less, if not natural. The presentation may be the factor that makes a difference between hunger and appetite of the child by the fruit. This is the case of a colorful fruit salad, a delicious crepe with threads of chocolate, jam, fruit ices, and gelatinized or poles of flavors.
Fruits can also be ingredients striking diversity of recipes that make up the menu, salads, entrees garrison, and even more complex recipes and energy to enjoy on special occasions such as pies, tarts, custards and a long listed as part of dessert recipes of Consumer Eroski.
The color is as appetizing as the texture, if it is ready, but what about the smell? Is the feature which is given less importance, although part of the whole. The only fruit flavor follows: it has lost in the process of collection and distribution and retaining the smell, it loses in storage. But from a neutral flavor the piece can move to a scent infected and damaged. So you have to keep the fruit in the bottom tray of the refrigerator or in a container outside, in a cool and protected from direct sunlight.
UP TO TEN TIMES
In his book "Children, eat. Prevents the child and adolescent obesity, "Dr. Marta infant feeding specialist Garaulet indicates that it can take up to ten attempts for the palate to accept a new flavor or a new texture. Thus inviting the parents to apply the "rule of 10", as children naturally do not accept new tastes and foods, but they need to take them several times before being admitted to their diet.
It may take up to ten attempts for small to accept a new flavor or a new texture
You have to persevere because the effort is worthwhile. The taste is formed and there are stages in which it is easier to achieve success. Organize the family meal to be healthy is difficult, says Garaulet, but the learning phase, between two and five years old, is the ideal time to acquire habits and fruit, vegetables and fish "must be present to prove that small is good to eat everything. "
He admits that everyone knows what to do, but "how difficult is to guess how to get it." Sometimes it requires the child to try the new food from 5 to 10 times to accept the new flavor, but do not give up trying. If the child gets used to eating new flavors from an early age, especially fruits and vegetables, eat properly in the future and maintain a balanced body weight.
Author: By MAITE ZUDAIRE
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