What to do if your baby is zinc deficient? Zinc supplement recipes for babies

Zinc is an essential element for human growth and development. Infants, children and adolescents grow and develop rapidly and have a high demand for zinc nutrition. If a baby is zinc deficient, it will cause loss of appetite, oral ulcers, and affect bone development and intellectual development. So how should we supplement zinc if our baby is deficient?

1: Chestnut porridge Ingredients: chestnuts, rice Method: Peel 5 chestnuts and chop them. Add water to the pot, put in chestnuts and bring to a boil, then add a handful of rice and mix together and cook until cooked through, then you can feed it.

2: Egg yolk and milk paste Ingredients: eggs, milk Method: Boil the eggs in water (about 6 minutes), take out the egg yolks, crush them, and mix them with milk into a cake or porridge, and feed them directly to the baby.

1: Nut porridge Ingredients: rice, peanuts, walnut kernels Method: Wash and chop the rice and peanuts, add water and cook the porridge. When it is 80% cooked, add the walnut kernels and some sugar. Note: Chop the peanuts and walnut kernels as finely as possible and cook them until soft to prevent the baby from choking.

2: Seafood Egg Custard Ingredients: dried shrimp, fresh clams, eggs Method: 1. Chop the dried shrimp and soak it in rice wine for 10 minutes. →2 Wash the clams and blanch them in boiling water until they open. →3 Crush the eggs, add salt, add dried shrimps and clams, add warm water, put in chopped green onions, and steam over high heat until it becomes a soup.

1: Cabbage and pork shreds Ingredients: cabbage, lean meat Method: 1. Cut the cabbage and lean meat into shreds. Add water starch to thicken the shredded meat. →2 Heat up some oil in a pan, stir-fry the shredded pork until tender, add in the shredded cabbage, add in salt and MSG and stir-fry until cooked through, finally pour in a little water starch and stir-fry a few times.

2: Colorful Yellow Croaker Soup Ingredients: small yellow croaker, celery, carrots, fried pine nuts, fresh mushrooms Method: 1. Wash the small yellow croaker, remove the bones and cut into dices. →2Cut celery, carrots and mushrooms into shreds. →3 Heat oil in a pan, add onion and ginger and stir-fry until fragrant, then pour in boiling water, add celery, carrots, mushrooms, fried pine nuts and small yellow croaker meat, and cook until the fish is cooked. →4 Add salt, MSG, cooking wine and other seasonings, thicken with water starch, and drizzle with a little cooked oil.

The presence of iron, calcium and phosphorus. To prevent zinc deficiency, children should be encouraged to eat more animal foods such as lean meat, pork liver, fish and egg yolks, develop good eating habits, and not be partial or picky eaters.