Can babies eat lotus seeds?

Lotus pods are a kind of food that can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. In summer, we can eat some lotus pods appropriately. But for babies, you can also eat lotus pods, but not too much. Since babies have poor digestive ability, a small amount of lotus pods is very good for regulating their stomachs. If you prefer to eat lotus pods, you can learn about the following content, which may help your baby add lotus pods as a complementary food.

Babies can eat lotus seeds.

Lotus pods are not only very sweet and tender, but also have high nutritional value. Eating them can help babies clear away heat and reduce fire, clear the mind and calm the nerves, stop diarrhea and nourish the stomach, etc. However, lotus seeds are cold in nature, so it is best for babies not to eat too much of them, as eating too much can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort in babies.

Babies can start to eat complementary foods from six months old. The principle is to start with soup and porridge to prevent the baby's teeth and digestive ability from not keeping up. And you can only feed your baby one new food at a time, and the amount should be small. Observe whether your baby is allergic to any food to avoid severe allergies.

How to eat lotus seed pods for babies

1. Lotus pod and winter melon soup

Ingredients: 100 grams of lotus pod, 100 grams of winter melon, 50 grams of red beans, 20 grams of yam, 10 grams of lotus seeds, and 20 grams of coix seeds.

practice:

(1) Wash and peel the winter melon and cut into pieces; wash and break the lotus pod into pieces, peel out the lotus seeds and remove the lotus core; wash the red beans, coix seeds and Chinese yam.

(2) Place all ingredients in a soup pot, add enough water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for one hour.

(3) Add salt to the cooked soup to taste.

2. Lotus pod pork bone soup

Ingredients: lotus pods, pork leg bones, salt, black dates.

practice:

(1) Cut the lotus pod into pieces and blanch the pork bones in boiling water to remove dirt and set aside.

(2) Place lotus pods, black dates and pork bones into a pressure cooker (water should be about 3 fingers high and cover the ingredients). Bring to a boil and simmer for two hours. Add salt to taste.

How to feed lotus seeds to babies

1. Apple, lotus seeds and white fungus stew

Ingredients: 6g Tremella, 1 apple, 40g lotus seeds, appropriate amount of wolfberry, 60g yellow rock sugar.

practice:

(1) Soak the Tremella fuciformis in advance; rinse the lotus seeds; wash and shred the Tremella fuciformis; peel the apples and cut into small pieces for later use.

(2) Place apples, lotus seeds, and white fungus in a stewing pot. Add an appropriate amount of cold water to the inner pot. Cover the inner pot with a lid and pour cold water into the stewing pot to stew.

(3) When the soup is about 10 minutes away from the end of the cooking time, add rock sugar and wolfberries.

2. Red bean and lotus seed porridge

Ingredients: red beans, lotus seeds, rice, rock sugar.

practice:

(1) Wash all ingredients except rock sugar.

(2) Place red beans, lotus seeds and rice in a pot, add water and rock sugar and cook into porridge. It will taste better if you simmer for another half an hour.