Can children eat chestnuts?

For those who like to eat chestnuts, they should be very clear about the nutritional value contained in chestnuts, and chestnuts taste better to many people. So no matter in which form it appears, chestnuts are popular with most people. Because of some special substances contained in chestnuts, eating more chestnuts can help the human body to strengthen the stomach and spleen. Parents all hope that their children will have more adequate nutrition. Can children eat chestnuts to supplement their nutrition?

Can children eat chestnuts?

The nutritional value of chestnuts is like high-quality protein. Eating them can supplement nutrients, improve immunity, enhance resistance, and contribute to the healthy development of the baby's brain and nervous system.

Although chestnuts can supplement calcium, they help the baby's bones grow healthily. However, since the baby's gastrointestinal tract is underdeveloped and chestnuts are rich in fiber, the baby will easily feel full after eating chestnuts, which can easily cause indigestion and gastrointestinal blockage in the baby.

In addition, the baby's throat is not fully developed, and the size of chestnuts is relatively large compared to the baby's throat. If chestnuts are fed to the baby directly, it is very easy to choke the baby's throat and bronchi. Therefore, parents should be careful when feeding chestnuts to their babies. Babies should not eat too much or should eat them with caution. However, if the baby has symptoms such as oral ulcers and mouth sores, chestnuts can be eaten appropriately. Because chestnuts are rich in riboflavin, they help heal wounds in people with oral ulcers.

Of course, if the chestnuts are moldy, you must not eat them, as eating them will cause poisoning. When buying chestnuts, mothers don’t have to blindly pursue white or golden color of the flesh, as it’s just a matter of variety. If the flesh turns brown in the middle after frying or cooking, it is harmless to the human body as long as the taste remains the same.

However, fresh chestnuts are generally easy to deteriorate and rot, so mothers should be careful to prevent children from eating moldy and rotten chestnuts.

It is also worth reminding that children with spleen and stomach heat, constipation and bloating, or rheumatism should not eat chestnuts!

How to eat chestnuts for babies

Chestnuts are delicious and nutritious. They are often used to make soups and are suitable for stir-frying, steaming, braising, and roasting. However, it is not suitable for babies to eat too many chestnuts, nor are they suitable for eating chestnuts that have been cooked in too complicated a way.

△ Minced meat, chestnut and rapeseed porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of rice, appropriate amount of lean meat and rapeseed, 1 to 2 chestnuts, and boiled pork bone broth.

practice:

1. Wash the rice and soak it for half an hour.

2. Chop the lean pork into small pieces and blanch it in water.

3. Wash the chestnuts, boil them, peel them, and grind them into small particles.

4. Take the young leaves of rapeseed, blanch them in water, and cut them into fine pieces.

5. Put rice, minced meat and chestnuts into the pork bone broth, simmer over low heat until it becomes thick, add chopped rapeseed and cook for another 10 minutes.

Efficacy: Chestnuts contain riboflavin, and eating them regularly is very beneficial for children's oral ulcers that are difficult to heal for a long time; because there is no salt in the porridge, the sweetness of chestnuts can increase the baby's appetite and help the baby digest the food.

△ Chestnut porridge

Ingredients: 1 small bowl of rice porridge, 3 chestnuts, and appropriate amount of fine salt.

practice:

1. Wash the chestnuts, peel and chop them.

2. Add water to the pot, turn on the fire and put in the chestnuts and cook.

3. Add rice porridge, mix and cook until cooked. Add a little refined salt to give it a light salty taste and then you can feed it.

Note: The chestnuts must be peeled and boiled thoroughly. Crush with the back of a spoon when feeding. This porridge is suitable for babies over 7 months old.

Efficacy: This dish is rich in protein, carbohydrates, various vitamins, niacin and other nutrients, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of riboflavin deficiency such as diarrhea, angular cheilitis, glossitis, cheilitis, etc. in babies.