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Are whitebait available all year round?

Whitebait mainly grows in the Taihu Lake Basin and has now been introduced to many places.

There is a fishing ban in the lake. It starts in February and ends in early September. Except for a few special fishing operations, all other fishing boats will stop entering the port and catching aquatic animals and plants. During this period, you can only eat frozen or artificially farmed whitebait.

Whitebait is rich in nutrition, with delicate meat, white and tender, no scales, no thorns, no bones, no intestines, no fishy smell, and contains a variety of nutrients. Most of the fresh whitebait is exported and sold overseas, known as fish ginseng. The dried whitebait made by sun exposure has a long-lasting color, fragrance, taste and shape. Whitebait can be cooked into a variety of famous dishes, such as whitebait scrambled eggs, dry fried whitebait, whitebait soup, whitebait balls, whitebait spring rolls, whitebait wontons, etc., which are all unique lake delicacies.

What is the best time to start adding complementary food to a six-month-old baby?

Six-month-old baby staple food recipes

Six-month-old babies can officially start adding complementary foods, starting with rice cereal, then vegetable and fruit purees, and finally egg yolks. The baby's staple food recipe should be mainly soup or paste, such as fruit juice, vegetable juice, vegetable soup, meat soup, egg yolk puree, vegetable puree, fruit puree, fish puree, meat puree, etc., which can be easily accepted by babies.

1. Egg yolk paste Ingredients: 1 egg Method: After the egg is cooked, use a spoon to mash it into paste, then add an appropriate amount of boiling water or formula milk and mix it evenly into a paste. You can start with 1/8 egg yolk, and then gradually add 1/4 or 1/3 according to the baby's acceptance. Nutritional tips: Egg yolks are high in iron, and vitamins A, D and E dissolve in fat and are easily absorbed and utilized by the body.

2. Fresh liver and potato paste Ingredients: 20g potato, 30g rice, 5g chicken liver. Method: Rinse the chicken liver with running water, put it in a small pot and cook it; remove it (keep the water from the chicken liver), take about 1/3 and mash it into a paste; wash the potatoes, put them in a small pot and cook until soft, remove them and press them into potato paste; wash the rice, add the water used to cook the chicken liver, boil it over high heat, then turn to medium-low heat and simmer until the rice becomes a paste; add the chicken liver paste and potato paste, stir well and turn off the heat, and feed it to the baby after it is warm. Nutrition tips: Chicken liver is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, vitamin A, and vitamin B, which can protect the baby's eyesight.

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Vegetable recipes for six-month-old babies

1. Vegetable soup ingredients: 400g tomatoes, 300g wild rice, 200g celery, 50g coriander, 50g bean sprouts, 500g milk, 50g cream, 2g pepper, 5g salt, 10g minced garlic. Method: Put celery into a blender; blend into puree for later use; cut tomatoes and wild rice into pieces for later use; add cream to a hot pot, sauté garlic, add celery puree and milk, and boil until boiling; add tomatoes and wild rice and continue to cook for 10 minutes. Add bean sprouts, coriander, pepper, and salt to taste, and you can eat it. Nutrition tips: Drinking vegetable soup is good for enhancing human resistance, and the iron and calcium contained in celery help supplement trace elements.

2. Digestive Radish Soup Ingredients: 60g white radish, 5g dried orange peel, 2 raw hawthorns, 5g rock sugar. Method: Wash and slice the white radish; shred the dried orange peel; wash the raw hawthorns; put all the ingredients in a small pot, add 600ml of water; bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 10 minutes. Take out the orange peel and discard it, and eat it with the soup; finally serve it in a cup. Nutrition Tips: It can promote gastrointestinal motility, eliminate constipation, and play a role in detoxification, thereby improving rough skin, acne, etc.

Protein diet for six-month-old babies

Fish is very important for the development of babies. It is rich in protein and vitamins, which is beneficial to the development of the baby's intelligence. When adding complementary food to a six-month-old baby, you can prepare some fish recipes appropriately. Fish meat contains phospholipids and high protein, and is tender and easy to digest. It is suitable for the nutritional needs of infant development, but you must buy fresh fish.

1. Three-shredded silverfish soup ingredients: appropriate amount of silverfish, 1 egg, 3 dried mushrooms, appropriate amount of salad oil, appropriate amount of starch, 3 shallots, appropriate amount of sesame oil. Method: Wash the silverfish, select the soft and rotten ones, drain the water, add egg white and mix well with your hands; soak the mushrooms in advance, cut into shreds, cut the shallots into segments of about 5 cm, add cornstarch to cold water and mix well (not too thin); heat oil in a pan, stir-fry the shredded mushrooms quickly, add water to boil; add the seasoned silverfish after the water in the pot boils, boil the soup again, add the seasoned cornstarch, stir quickly with chopsticks; add chopped shallots; sprinkle with sesame oil and serve. Nutrition tips: Silverfish tastes sweet, is flat in nature, and belongs to the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, nourishing the spleen and stomach, benefiting the lungs, and promoting diuresis. It is especially suitable for people with weak constitution and indigestion.

2. Tomato and Bell Pepper Fish Paste Ingredients: Cut carrots into small cubes, cut mushrooms into small cubes, rice, 1 egg, and a few fish slices. Method: Beat the eggs (usually take 1/4 of the egg liquid for babies), add 2 times the water and stir evenly, pour into a small bowl for later use; slice the fish into fish slices, pick out the bones and set aside; pour the rice and water used for steaming rice into the rice cooker and cook; cut carrot slices and select and wash small cauliflowers, and cook them in the same way; mix carrots and shiitake mushrooms with rice noodles; steam the ingredients in step 1, then sandwich the fish slices on the solidified egg custard, then immediately cover the pot and continue to simmer for about 7-8 minutes. Chop the tomatoes and bell peppers and cook them, and with the help of the mold, arrange them into the shape of red and green flowers. Nutrition Tips: The protein in eggs has a repairing effect on liver tissue damage, and the lecithin in the egg yolk can promote the regeneration of liver cells. It can also increase the amount of plasma protein in the human body and enhance the body's metabolic and immune functions. Fish meat is high in protein and is tender and easy to digest.

Foods that six-month-old babies cannot eat

1. Honey. Babies under 1 year old who consume honey and pollen products may get food poisoning because honey contains botulism toxin.

2. Mango. Mango is a hot fruit that can easily cause internal heat. Giving it to children too early can easily cause allergies.

3. Yogurt. The protein molecules in yogurt are large and not conducive to the baby's digestion and absorption. It is especially harmful to infants with gastroenteritis and premature babies.

4. Leeks and spinach. Spinach is rich in vinegar oxalic acid, which can produce calcium oxalate and zinc oxalate, which is not conducive to the baby's absorption; after the leek is cooked and left for a long time, a large amount of nitrate will be converted into nitrite, causing toxic reactions

5. Foods with added preservatives, such as ham, finished fruit juice, etc. Also avoid eating foods with various additives, seasonings, starch, sodium nitrite, etc.

In addition to the foods listed above that are not suitable for six-month-old babies, it should also be noted that when adding complementary foods to babies, it is best to focus on coarse grains. The B vitamins in refined cereal foods are destroyed. Various seasonings should be avoided in the food prepared for babies, otherwise it will easily increase the burden on the baby's kidneys and interfere with the baby's absorption of other nutrients.

6-month-old baby diet characteristics

For a 6-month-old baby, due to the increase in activity, the calorie demand also increases, and exclusive breastfeeding can meet the needs of the baby's growth and development. If artificial feeding is necessary, the staple food for a 6-month-old baby is still mainly milk, and the baby can eat 200 ml of formula milk each time, and one egg yolk can be added. If the bowel movement is normal, the porridge and vegetable puree can be increased a little, and fruit puree can be used instead of juice. Babies who have already grown teeth can try some biscuits to exercise their chewing ability and promote the development of teeth and jaws.

This month, you can also add some fish to the complementary food, such as flat fish, yellow croaker, and barramundi. These fish have more meat and less bones, which is easy to process into minced meat. Fish meat is high in phospholipids and protein, and is tender and easy to digest, which is suitable for the nutritional needs of infant development, but you must buy fresh fish.

The feeding schedule can still be carried out according to the arrangement of last month. Just add a little more types and amounts of complementary food. Cod liver oil is still taken 2 drops each time, 3 times a day; calcium tablets are taken 2 tablets each time, 2-3 times a day.

What complementary food should a 6-month-old baby eat?

For babies aged 6 to 8 months, spinach, broccoli, chopped greens, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, eggplant, beets, watermelon, orange juice, strawberries, mangoes, lemons, avocados, pureed liver, pureed fish, minced pork, minced beef, crab, pureed shrimp, chicken porridge, soft noodles, tender tofu, biscuits, bread slices and other complementary foods can be added.

Note: The baby can start eating liver paste when he is 7 months old. Don’t add it too early.

Consumption amount: 5-10 grams of complementary food each time. According to Chinese traditional habits, fish paste is added earlier.

Feeding frequency: Add complementary food 3 times a day during this stage.

Six-month-old baby's daily feeding schedule

Main food: Breast milk or formula

Supplementary food: boiled water, cod liver oil (the ratio of vitamin A to vitamin D is 3:1), fruit juice, vegetable juice, vegetable soup, meat soup, rice noodles (paste), egg yolk paste, vegetable paste, fruit paste, fish paste, meat paste, animal blood

Meal frequency: once every 4 hours

Morning: 6:00 Breastfeed for 20 minutes, or 150-200 ml formula milk; 8:00 Feed 80 ml fruit juice or vegetable juice or warm water; 10:00 Feed 20 grams of rice flour, 1/4 egg yolk; 12:00 Feed vegetable juice or fruit juice or vegetable soup 30-60 ml, fish paste or meat paste 20-50 grams

Afternoon: 14:00, feed breast milk for 20 minutes, or 150-200 ml of formula milk; 16:00, feed 30-60 grams of vegetable or fruit puree, 30-60 ml of broth; 18:00, feed breast milk for 20 minutes, or 150-200 ml of formula milk, 30-60 ml of rice soup.

Night: Feed 50 grams of fruit puree or green leafy vegetable puree and 1/4 egg yolk at 20:00; Feed breast milk for 20 minutes, or 150-200 ml of formula milk at 22:00.

Note: Cod liver oil once a day, 400μ each time

Precautions for adding complementary food to six-month-old babies

1. Start with a small amount and gradually increase.

When the child is willing to eat and can digest normally, gradually increase the amount. If the child refuses to eat, do not force him to eat, you can feed him after 2-3 days. Forcing the child to eat will only backfire.

2. Complementary food should be changed from thin to dry, and from fine to coarse.

Complementary food should be increased gradually from thin to dry, from fine to coarse, from soft to hard, from light to thick, step by step, so that the child has a period of gradual adaptation. Do not add it all at once, otherwise the child will not be able to adapt.

3. Add complementary foods according to the season and the child’s physical condition.

You should add complementary foods according to the season and the child's physical condition, and add them one by one, gradually increasing to multiple types. If the child's stool becomes loose and abnormal, you should stop adding complementary foods and wait until it returns to normal. In addition, do not add complementary foods in the hot summer or when the child is not in good health, so as to avoid discomfort to the child. It is best to wait until autumn when the weather is cooler before adding complementary foods.

4. Add it when the baby is hungry before feeding.

Complementary food should be added when the child is hungry before feeding, so that the child can easily accept it. As the complementary food is gradually increased, it can gradually transition from replacing half a meal of milk to replacing one meal of milk a day.

5. Baby tableware should be fixed and dedicated.

Pay attention to hygiene. Baby tableware should be fixed and dedicated. In addition to being carefully washed, it should also be disinfected daily. When feeding, parents should not blow while feeding, and should not chew in their mouths before spitting it out to feed the baby. This practice is extremely unhygienic and can easily transmit diseases to children.

6. Train your child to adapt to using tableware.

When feeding complementary foods, you should train your child to gradually adapt to using tableware, and prepare him or her for using tableware independently in the future. Generally, a 6-month-old baby can take the spoon and put it in his or her mouth by himself or herself, and a 7-month-old baby can drink water from a cup or bowl.

7. Parents should be patient when feeding their children complementary foods.

When feeding their babies complementary foods, parents should be patient and find ways to make their children interested in food.