How to make lure from zucchini. How to cook zucchini for babies for the first feeding

There are not many products on the menu for babies up to a year old that do not cause allergies. This dish is zucchini puree for the first feeding, the recipe of which is simple and allows you to combine it with other vegetables.

Beneficial features

Children should first be given squash puree at the age of 4 months. The vegetable product is easily digestible and is not an allergen. Zucchini is a healthy vegetable because it contains a number of nutrients necessary for the growth and development of the child. The vegetable product helps to eliminate any allergic reactions caused by other vegetables or fruits. Potassium and sodium contained in zucchini have a positive effect on the immune and nervous system crumbs.

The main benefit of the vegetable is the presence of vitamin C in it, which helps protect the baby from colds. Zucchini puree is an excellent remedy for constipation, its intake normalizes digestion, eliminates colic. Zucchini is a light food that does not overload the stomach. The benefits of pectins are excellent absorption and removal of excess fluid from the body.

Despite the variety of varieties of zucchini, for the first baby better fit white variety. And since the children's diet excludes the use of salt and sugar, these components should not be added to zucchini puree - it itself has a pleasant sweetish taste.

The first complementary foods for babies are best done in the form of serving vegetable puree. If the mother gave fruit mixtures as the main dish, which have a richer and sweeter taste, then the child may not accept vegetable puree.

The first squash complementary foods should not exceed a portion of ½ tsp. It is better to give zucchini puree in the morning to monitor the baby's health after introducing a new vegetable into the diet.

Increase the amount of squash complementary foods should be if the child has tolerated zucchini well. The portion should eventually be 100 g. Gradually, you can combine zucchini with other vegetables, but the introduction of such dishes into the children's diet requires maintaining an interval of 5-7 days.

Preparing mashed potatoes for the winter

In autumn and winter, ready-made squash puree can be bought at the store, but often such products can contain bacteria as a result of long storage and transportation. In order for the child to receive healthy food, for the winter it is recommended to independently prepare a valuable vegetable - zucchini. It should be washed, cleaned, seeds removed from the inside. Cut the vegetable into medium cubes, put in a bag and freeze.

To prevent the cubes from being compressed into one lump, the best option is to make a blank in bags with the calculation for one serving. Quick frozen homemade vegetable cubes will not lose beneficial features. When you need to make mashed potatoes for the first time, they are taken from the freezer and steamed.

How to make zucchini puree?

You can cook zucchini different ways: for this, a double boiler, multicooker is used. How to make zucchini puree for babies? Dishes should not contain spices, fat.

For a baby, a portion of ⅓ or ¼ of a vegetable is suitable. To make food easily digested, young children are served on the first course of zucchini, chopped with a blender. After the baby's teeth erupt (this happens for about 8-11 months), it will be enough to knead the boiled healthy zucchini with a fork.

Baby cooking process

Wash the zucchini thoroughly, remove the skin, remove the seeds. Cut into small cubes and boil in boiling water. When ready, remove from the pan, bring to a mushy state. To make zucchini puree liquid, it is diluted with breast milk. Lure of zucchini should be medium portions, you can cook the dish in boiling water. The liquid should just barely cover the vegetable cubes.

Zucchini is good not only as a first food, where it is served in a chopped form without extraneous vegetables. It can also be used to make another equally delicious homemade dish. infant can use cream soup, vegetable stew, caviar, pancakes, ketchup for porridge.

Cooking zucchini for a couple

Before cooking zucchini in a slow cooker, it is pre-soaked for 2 hours in cold water with added salt. For the first feeding for babies, it is recommended to choose young varieties of small size. Shop zucchini are selected first of all by appearance. They must be free of obvious defects. A slow cooker or a double boiler will help to save most of the beneficial vitamins in zucchini.

To cook a vegetable in a double boiler, it will need to be peeled and the seeds removed. Cut into cubes, cook no more than 10 minutes. If kitchen appliances are not available, a zucchini dish can be cooked in a standard way, in a saucepan. To do this, the container is filled with water by ¼ part. The vegetable is washed, cut and thrown back on a sieve. To cook quickly, the pan must be covered with a lid.

In a slow cooker, zucchini can be cooked in this way: wash the vegetable, remove the seeds, cut into cubes, steam. For cooking, use the “cooking” or “stewing” mode, cook mashed potatoes for 20 minutes. When serving, zucchini is brought to a state of puree.

It is very important to follow the rules for preparing baby food:

1. Squash complementary foods should be diluted with breast milk during preparation. Store-bought can be diluted when the child reaches the age of 1.5 years.
2. The vegetable is compatible with other root vegetables, but for the first feeding it is better to give it in its pure form.
3. Squash complementary foods do not cause an allergic reaction, which cannot be said about its seeds. Only the pulp is suitable for mashing.
4. Squash for babies is boiled over low heat for no more than 10 minutes. After it becomes soft, the broth is drained and placed in a blender.
5. A few weeks after the first use of the squash dish, you can add olive or unrefined olive oil to the classic recipe. sunflower oil in the proportion of 1 tsp. in a day.
6. An infant who is 7 months old can drink squash juice half an hour before the main complementary foods. Juice is consumed immediately, it should not be left open on the table, in which case the vitamin composition disappears.
7. Store zucchini for no more than a week in a refrigerator. To free the vegetable from possible toxins, it is left in salt water for a couple of hours. Then the zucchini is rinsed in running water and thrown into a colander, allowing the water to drain.

If it is decided to choose zucchini for the baby for the introduction of complementary foods, then any healthy recipe cooking this miracle vegetable will bring maximum benefit to your wonderful baby!

The issue of starting complementary foods is one of the most exciting for a young mother. Changing the established diet possible difficulties waiting for the baby on the difficult path of transition to adult food, disputes about which product is better to introduce in the first place - all this remains to be studied before offering the baby his first spoonful of complementary foods. Most modern young mothers prefer the priority introduction of vegetables into the baby's diet. The same opinion is shared by pediatricians. Consider the features of using the most popular vegetable in this sense, zucchini, as the first complementary food: what is the basis for choosing this product, what useful properties does this vegetable have, how to make mashed zucchini yourself and what kind of puree industrial production better choose.

How many months to introduce the first vegetable complementary foods

In the first months of life, the child's body is able to obtain sufficient nutrients from mother's milk or adapted milk formulas. But by the age of four to six months this is not enough, and the baby himself will give the first signals about the need to introduce new food to the mother. According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization, the first complementary foods for children who are on breastfeeding, it is advisable to introduce after reaching the age of six months, and for those whose main diet is adapted mixtures - from the age of 4–5 months. In addition to age indicators, the mother should also evaluate other signs of her baby's readiness to receive adult food, for example, it is recommended to start complementary foods when the baby's weight has doubled in relation to its value at birth and he shows an active interest in adult food.

Complementary foods should only be started if the child has not had any diseases or vaccinations in the last two weeks.

Mothers need to remember general rules introduction of complementary foods:

1. In the process of introducing the product, it is necessary to observe the reaction of the baby's body: whether signs of allergy have appeared, whether the stool has changed. Only in the case of a normal reaction should the portion of complementary foods be increased the next day.
2. A new dish should be offered to the baby before taking the main meal (breast milk or formula).
3. It is better to give a new product before lunch so that you can observe the reaction to it during the remainder of the time.
4. If food for the child is prepared independently, it is necessary to carefully monitor the cleanliness of the products used, utensils, hands.
5. Complementary foods should be freshly prepared and warm.

Pediatricians offer 2 options for starting to accustom a child to adult food:

• the introduction of cereals;
• introduction of vegetables.

When choosing between cereals and vegetables, you should be guided by the following principles:

1. For children with underweight and a tendency to loose stools, it is advisable to choose cereals as the first complementary foods;
2. Children with normal weight, normal stools, or a tendency to constipation are best introduced with vegetable purees first.

The following qualities make it possible to consider zucchini as an ideal product for the first feeding:

In addition to the listed advantages of zucchini, mothers who prefer to cook meals for the baby themselves will definitely appreciate the ease and speed of preparing mashed potatoes from this product.

Complementary feeding scheme: how much puree to give a child

To introduce a baby to zucchini, you need only half a teaspoon of puree. The portion increases gradually, depending on the age, appetite and reaction of the baby's body. The serving volume is usually adjusted to the age norm in a week or two.

Table: scheme for introducing zucchini into complementary foods based on WHO recommendations

feeding day	How much to give a child zucchini puree
	in teaspoons	Grams
First	0,5	3
Second	1	8
Third	3	20
Fourth	7	40
Fifth	12	70
Sixth	20	120
Seventh	28	170

Young mothers need to understand that it is not always necessary to strictly follow the scheme.. Forcing a child to eat against their will can lead to distorted eating habits and become a lifelong problem.

If a child refuses a particular food for several days, you should postpone the introduction of complementary foods for a while or start accustoming to adult food from something else.

Overview of monocomponent squash purees of industrial production

Almost every popular baby food brand has monocomponent zucchini puree in its assortment. Let's compare several popular options in the table.

Table: comparative characteristics of canned zucchini puree

Name	Compound	Weight	Shelf life	approximate cost
hipp	Water; coarse rice flour.	80 g	18 months	50–60 rubles
Heinz	Zucchini puree; corn flour; water.	80 g	24 months	40–50 rubles
zucchini; water.	71 or 113 g	Until the date indicated on the package	45–50 rubles
Zucchini puree	100 g	24 months	40–45 rubles
Zucchini puree	80 g	12 months	30–35 rubles
Zucchini; drinking water.	125 g	24 months	30–35 rubles

Due to differences in raw materials and composition, the taste of the product from different manufacturers is very different.

Photo gallery: monocomponent zucchini puree

Zucchini puree of the Russian manufacturer "Spelyonok" - the most popular among Russian mothers The American brand Heinz has its own production in Russia Hipp brand products are made in Germany
Zucchini puree "Tyoma" is produced in Russia and is one of the most affordable
"Babushkino Lukoshko" is a popular manufacturer of baby food in Russia Beech nut products are made in the USA

Video: is it worth buying ready-made vegetable puree in jars

Making your own zucchini puree

Before considering the recipes for cooking zucchini, we will outline the principles for choosing a fetus suitable for feeding crumbs:

1. For baby zucchini puree, both ordinary zucchini and zucchini are suitable.
2. Vegetables can be grown in your garden or purchased at a store, in the market. Store-bought zucchini is better to stand in salted water for several hours before cooking in order to get rid of harmful substances with which it could be processed by the manufacturer.
3. Both fresh and frozen vegetables are used to feed children. Freezing zucchini does not deprive it of nutrients and preserves the vitamins contained in it.
4. To feed a child, it is better to choose a young small zucchini.
5. The fruit should not have dents, cracks or other damage.

Zucchini seeds are best removed before cooking, as the substances contained in them can cause discomfort and discomfort in the intestines of the crumbs.

There are several ways to prepare zucchini puree for the first feeding:

1. Cooking. This is the most common way to cook zucchini for a baby. The washed, seeded and peeled fruit is cut into cubes and placed in boiling water. Boil the zucchini for 10 to 15 minutes, then pass through a sieve or grind with a blender. Before serving, you can add a little boiled water or breast milk to the puree.
2. Steam cooking. Steam cooking can be done with the help of modern appliances - a multicooker or a double boiler, using specially designed modes ("Steam cooking") and accessories (special bowls for steaming). In the absence of such a technique, mashed potatoes can be prepared using an ordinary colander, in which pieces of zucchini are placed, and a pot suitable for it in size, into which water is poured. In a slow cooker and a double boiler, the heat treatment process will take about 5 minutes, if you steam the zucchini in a saucepan, you will have to wait a little longer. You can speed up the process by covering the pan with a lid.

Frozen zucchini is prepared in the same way as fresh ones, slightly increasing the heat treatment time.

Video: baby zucchini puree

After the zucchini has been successfully introduced into the diet of the crumbs, it can also be offered fresh. For example, in order for a child to be able to gnaw a piece of vegetable, it must first be peeled, seeds, and poured over with boiling water. They also give babies freshly squeezed zucchini juice, both single-component and in combination with juices of other vegetables and fruits.

How to freeze zucchini

Harvesting zucchini by freezing is as follows. Thoroughly washed fruits are peeled and seeds are cut into cubes, packaged in bags (it is better if each single serving is in a separate bag) and placed in the freezer. In order for the cubes not to stray into a lump, you can pre-freeze them on a cutting board and only then put them in a bag.

How to supplement zucchini in the future

At the beginning of complementary foods, you need to give the baby zucchini without adding other ingredients. And in the future it can be supplemented:

Zucchini doesn't go well with milk. Mom's is an exception. breast milk.

The baby is growing up, and already he is missing. In addition, you need to prepare the baby for adulthood. Therefore, it became necessary to introduce the first products. A proven recipe for the first - zucchini puree. How to cook it correctly is the topic of this material.

When can I give my baby

If the mother has enough and the child receives the required amount, then complementary foods are introduced from six months. Quite a different picture, if insufficient. In agreement with the pediatrician, new products begin to be introduced into -. The fact that the child is hungry is easy to determine. Usually a well-fed baby sleeps peacefully until the next feeding for 3-4 hours.

But if he wakes up after 2-2.5 hours and cries until you give him a breast, this is a sure sign that the baby is not full. With a lack of milk, as a rule, there is a lack of weight of the baby in accordance with the norms, and the need to diversify the menu becomes relevant. Artificial has a special schedule for the introduction of new products.

How to start weaning

Traditionally, complementary foods begin with zucchini puree. Consider why zucchini and how it is useful for babies.

Did you know? Zucchini appeared in Europe after the discovery of America by Columbus in the 17th century.

• This vegetable has established itself as hypoallergenic.
• It is low calorie.
• It contains trace elements: iron, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium.
• C and B vitamins are also present in sufficient quantities for infants.
• An important property of this product in this situation is its ease for the stomach. It does not cause swelling, which is especially important. Young mothers know what a scourge it is - gases. The child may cry all night long until he is given an enema or induces a bowel movement in some other way.

If you start with sweet fruits, such as apples, then in the future the baby may refuse vegetables. It is not enough to know how to cook zucchini for feeding, you still need to properly feed them to the baby. The first dose will be a maximum of 1 teaspoon of the finished puree. The first serving is ¼ teaspoon. Then you can feed 2-3 more servings, but not more than 1 teaspoon of the total volume.

How to make zucchini puree

Baby vegetable purees are easy to buy, beautiful jars are sold in any department of baby food in all retail chains. They are quite expensive. Synthetic food additives are not used in the production. So, in any case, the manufacturers say. But in order not to guess why the child suddenly got allergies, gases or diarrhea, it is better to cook baby puree from zucchini at home. The technology is within the power of any mother who has at least several times approached the stove, and does not take much time.

Stock and kitchen appliances

How to cook zucchini for the first feeding is a simple science. This requires a simple inventory, namely:

Important! Aluminum utensils are not used when cooking vegetables, they darken in it.

• A small saucepan with an enameled, Teflon coating.
• Blender for chopping vegetables.
• Grinding sieve if there is no blender.

The selected container should henceforth be used only for the preparation of children's meals.

Ingredients

In order to cook zucchini for the first feeding, you need to choose the right products. The components are very simple:

• Zucchini is young, 10-12 cm in size.
• Water, enough to cover the chopped vegetables in the saucepan.

Zucchini puree for the first feeding is usually made from one product. Mom must be sure that he does not cause allergies. If you don’t have your own garden, you can choose a vegetable in the market or in a vegetable store. At the bazaar at some grandmother's is preferable. Villagers rarely use mineral fertilizers as top dressing, they are too expensive for them. A farm zucchini in 90% of cases will contain nitrates. It should be borne in mind that even a young zucchini 10-12 cm long is a huge dose for a child.

Step by step recipe

And now we proceed directly to cooking:

• Wash the selected vegetable well under running water.
• Cut it, remove the loose core.
• Cut the zucchini into small slices, cubes.
• Place in a prepared, cleanly washed saucepan and fill with water so that it covers the zucchini by a maximum of 1 cm.
• Put on fire and bring to a boil over medium heat.
• After boiling, reduce the heat and cook the vegetables until tender. They cook quickly, a maximum of 10 minutes.
• Turn off the fire.
• Strain the contents of the pan through a sieve or colander. Do not pour out the broth, it can be useful for diluting mashed potatoes.
• If there is no blender, then the vegetables are ground through a sieve with a stainless steel wooden spoon, but not aluminum. Ideally - silver, if any. Silver kills unwanted microbes.
• Too thick puree is diluted with a decoction in which zucchini was boiled.

Important! Do not wash the zucchini before putting it in the refrigerator. This accelerates the deterioration of the vegetable.

Remember that the first portion is no more than a quarter of a teaspoon. After feeding, the child must be carefully observed in order to understand the reaction of his body to the first complementary foods. If there are undesirable consequences in the form of gases, then it is necessary to act according to the circumstances. But such cases are rare when using this dish.

• If the financial situation allows, then it is better to buy a stationary blender with a tall jug as soon as the question arose of preparing separate dishes for the baby. In the future, mom will appreciate it as an indispensable assistant in the kitchen.
• Leftover puree can be kept in the refrigerator for 24 hours. Heat in a water bath, but in no case in the microwave. There is still no consensus on the benefits of products processed in this household appliance.
• Do not reheat more than once.
• It is not recommended to freeze mashed fruits and vegetables.
• Instead of the water on which the vegetables were boiled, you can thin the puree

When it's time to meet the baby with adult food, young mothers are wondering: "how to cook zucchini for the first feeding of a child." Due to its beneficial qualities, it is this vegetable that pediatricians recommend introducing first.

How and when can you start feeding your baby zucchini

Doctors' recommendations have changed over the past decades regarding the age at which breastfeeding should begin. Babies used to start tasting food other than milk at 2 months as the care leave ended earlier.

At present, the view on the introduction of adult food to young children has been revised.

If the weight is below normal, doctors may allow breastfeeding after 4 months. In this case, porridge can also act as the first adult food, as a product with a higher calorie content.

Zucchini is valuable because it contains the necessary proper nutrition Components. It is a dietary product not annoying gastrointestinal tract and is easily absorbed by the body.

Useful properties of zucchini and its composition

Nutritional value of 100 g of product:

• calories: 24 kcal,
• water: 93 g,
• proteins: 0.6 g,
• fats: 0.3 g,
• carbohydrates: 4.6 g,
• dietary fiber: 1 g.

Zucchini contains:

mineral salts	trace elements	vitamins
potassium	molybdenum	provitamin A
magnesium	titanium	vitamin C
phosphorus	aluminum	B vitamins
calcium	lithium	nicotinic acid
sodium	zinc
iron
sulfur

5 rules for successful introduction of complementary foods

1. Zucchini puree for complementary foods should be prepared immediately before meals. How to cook zucchini for the first baby food will be described below.
2. Zucchini is not an allergenic product, but all babies have their own individual characteristics of the body. Like any product new to the baby, this vegetable should be introduced carefully. Let's get it in the morning(for breakfast or lunch), so that you can observe the body's reaction to the novelty. You need to finish the meal with the usual food (breast milk or formula).
3. The consistency of the finished dish should be liquid and homogeneous., because the baby is just getting used to solid food and before that he ate only milk.
4. You need to start the first feeding with zucchini with ½ teaspoon of the finished product.
5. If there are no negative changes in the child's condition ( liquid stool, skin rash, bloating, etc.), you can continue to introduce a new product every day, increasing its amount. The portion should be increased until it replaces 1 feeding (150 g).

You need to introduce complementary foods with a small amount and carefully monitor the condition of the child.

Give your child a squash dish once a day for breakfast.

Finish the meal with the usual (breast milk or formula) food for him until he is completely saturated.

• On day 1 - 0.5 teaspoon of vegetable puree (3 g),
• Day 2 - 1 tsp. (8 g),
• Day 3 - 3 tsp (20 g),
• Day 4 - 7 tsp (40 g),
• Day 5 - 12 tsp (70 g),
• on day 6 - 20 tsp. vegetable puree + 1 tsp. vegetable oil, which is added after the serving reaches 100 g (120 g),
• Day 7 - 27 tsp vegetable puree + 1 tsp. vegetable oil (170 g).

How to choose and cook zucchini

In the matter of introducing adult food to babies, modern young mothers have an alternative: cook it yourself or buy ready-made ones.

In the latter case, it is necessary carefully read the composition of the product and monitor the integrity of the packaging.

It is better to prepare food for the kids on their own, so the mother will be sure of the composition of the product and its quality.

Of course, the ideal option is to grow vegetables yourself or entrust this to grandmothers.

3 rules how to choose a zucchini in the store

• You should choose the usual white-fruited variety of zucchini.
• It is advisable to take young fruits.
• On them there should be no damage: dents, cracks, etc.

5 steps for harvesting zucchini for the winter

It is better to freeze zucchini grown in your garden or from trusted farmers

In winter, you will not find fresh young fruits of zucchini in our stores, and even at an affordable price.

Therefore, for those who are going to cook it for their own crumbs in the winter, this step-by-step instruction how to freeze zucchini for feeding:

1. We choose good fruits according to the rules described above.
2. Wash them, peel and core with seeds.
3. Cut into small cubes or rings.
4. Put the pieces in a bag, flatten them out so that they do not come together in a lump in the freezer.
5. Place the bags like this in the freezer.

5 steps to make baby zucchini puree

Mashed potatoes made from steamed zucchini are healthier than those cooked from the same "brothers". Dilute puree with milk is not friendly

The first vegetable dish should consist only of vegetables and water without the addition of milk, salt, sugar, spices and fats.

The latter are added in the form of vegetable fats (vegetable, olive oil etc.) when the portion reaches 100 g.

Having figured out which zucchini to choose and how to be guided by this, now we will consider the sequence of actions on how to cook zucchini for the first feeding of a baby.

1. Before preparing zucchini for the first feeding of the baby, it must be thoroughly washed under cold running water, cleaned and rinsed again.
2. Next, you need to cut off the required amount of vegetable, in the first days you may need no more than 2 rings 1.5 cm wide.
3. Then heat treatment follows: cook the pieces in water or steam until tender, so that they are soft.
4. We grind them to a homogeneous consistency with a sieve or blender.
5. Add a decoction (if boiled in water) or breast milk / boiled water (if steamed) so that the puree becomes liquid and the consistency is no thicker than kefir.

slightly different from breastfeeding. We advise you to familiarize yourself with these subtleties in more detail.

You can find out how much a newborn should eat in the first days of a week of life.

Unfortunately, not all foods can be eaten by a mother after the birth of a baby. Read about the month, allowed and prohibited foods at the link.

How to boil zucchini and steam it

The dish will be much tastier and healthier if it is steamed..

This can be done using a slow cooker, steamer, or regular pot with a steamer insert or colander placed over the pot and covered with a lid.

Cooking steam preserves vitamins and microelements in the product.

When steaming vegetables, their taste is not digested, so the taste of the finished dish will be richer and sweeter.

Therefore, if there is a desire to somehow diversify the menu of your child, you can alternate these cooking methods.

However, cooking in water has its advantages. After cooking, a vegetable broth remains, which can be given to the baby as an additional drink or diluted with vegetable puree.

Subtleties of cooking technology

Cook the zucchini for no more than 10 minutes, with the remaining broth you can dilute the finished mashed potatoes

How much to cook zucchini for the first feeding?

• In water - no more than 10 minutes
• For a couple - 15-20 minutes.

How to cook zucchini for the first feeding?

In a saucepan:

Put the fruit cut into medium pieces in a small saucepan and fill them with water so that it barely covers the pieces.

In a steamer:

In accordance with the instructions for the machine, the vegetables are laid out in an even layer in the steamer bowl in the "cooking vegetables" mode.

In the multicooker:

Vegetables are laid in a special bowl for steaming in an even layer, the bowl is installed on a special stand in the slow cooker.

In a steam pot:

Pour a little boiling water into the pan and put the steamer insert into the pan. There should be enough water so that it is just below the level of the double boiler., - so the vegetables will be steamed, and not boiled in water.

How we prepare zucchini for feeding: parent reviews

Maria, 26 years old, Moscow

Our son has always put on weight very well.

When he was 6 months old, our district pediatrician said that it was time for us to introduce complementary foods. I recommended starting with vegetables, the first we had was a zucchini.

So that the novelty in his menu would not seem like a shock to my son, I diluted my zucchini puree with milk. I always ate everything with a bang!

At the beginning, when the portions were small, I rubbed the zucchini through a sieve, pressing with a large spoon from above. In the early days, 1-2 centimeter circles from the zucchini were enough for me.

Anna, 30 years old, Kostomuksha

I have two small children with a difference of 1 year and 9 months. With both of them, I started the first complementary foods with zucchini when they were 6.5 months old. We started later because they were vaccinated and got sick at the turn of 5 and 6 months.

With my eldest son, for me, all this fuss with preparing a spoonful of mashed potatoes seemed something complicated, and then I found store-bought mashed potatoes from one manufacturer, where the normal composition is only zucchini and water (other manufacturers have milk in the composition).

With my youngest daughter, as an experienced mother, I cook myself food for complementary foods. I buy a lot of zucchini during the season, freeze them and take the required amount from the freezer before cooking. I cook for a couple - so they are tastier and sweeter.

I cook for 2 days: for today and tomorrow, I pour it into jars of baby food, scalded with boiling water. I put the cooled jars in the refrigerator, just warm up before eating.

Veronica, 20 years old, Tomsk

We started eating zucchini at 5 months. I cooked zucchini in a small saucepan. Puree made in a blender with the resulting broth.

When they began to eat a decent portion, on the advice of a pediatrician, she added olive oil.

We were advised to drink a full portion of vegetables with water, and when we start eating cereals, drink them with milk.

conclusions

Zucchini is the best product to start your baby's acquaintance with adult food. It's better to cook it yourself puree for the first feeding can contain only the zucchini itself and water and/or breast milk.

Be sure to achieve a liquid consistency and uniformity of the finished product. You need to introduce complementary foods with a small amount and be sure to carefully monitor the condition of the child.

In contact with

Zucchini is a versatile food, most popular in children's cuisine due to its nutritional and nutritional value, as well as easy digestibility by a young organism.

Every responsible mother should try to regularly include this indispensable product, rich in a large amount of vitamins and minerals, in her baby's diet. Zucchini puree for babies, the recipe of which we will tell in this article, will become your baby's favorite.

Fresh zucchini, especially milky maturity, can be safely called natural medicine, so they need eat regularly both adults and children. The taste qualities of this pumpkin culture are weakly expressed, so they go well with any kind.

• vegetable
• meat
• and dairy products.

Composition of vegetables

To understand how useful this melon culture is for the baby's body, you need to know its composition. Zucchini contains up to 95% structured water, as well as

• squirrels
• carbohydrates
• minerals
• and vitamins (C, group B)

• potassium salts
• magnesium
• calcium
• and iron.

The low level of fiber allows this product to be well absorbed and digested by the gastrointestinal tract.

Calorie zucchini

In terms of energy value, this dish is low-calorie product- its energy value is only 200 kcal per 100 grams of product.

The benefits of zucchini for children

Many babies most often suffer from anemia- a disease in which

• erythrocytes
• or hemoglobin

is in their blood below the norm. A sufficient level of hemoglobin in the blood plays a huge role in the health of babies. Thanks to hemoglobin, it improves to the tissues of the body, and the child better tolerated various

• loads
• and stress.

Hemoglobin also has a positive effect on the full development child's body and cell and tissue growth. This vegetable has an amazing property- they are capable raise hemoglobin levels in the blood and significantly

• influence on circulatory system organism,
• nourish the heart muscle
• strengthen blood vessels, thanks to the optimal combination of vitamins and minerals in their composition.

The recipe will be very useful for baby care.

The structured water contained in the composition is most well absorbed by the child's body, affecting the digestive tract and improving metabolism.

The thin mucous membrane of the child's stomach is not able to digest coarse food, high in fiber and high in protein.

Zucchini contains a low level of fiber and, when digested, does not overload the work of the stomach, but at the same time supplying the body with many useful trace elements.

Even with long-term storage, melon culture retains its nutritional value, it does not lose vitamins and minerals over a long period. By the winter season, when many vegetables are already losing some of their energy value, zucchini, on the contrary, retain all useful trace elements.

Important for baby skin

Useful properties are also known for external use. For various disorders of the skin in infants, you can use grated zucchini, which can work wonders, quickly and effectively rebuilding epidermal cells and favorably pour on skin covering child.

Hypoallergenic product

One of the most common diseases of the 21st century is childhood allergies. Many babies suffer from this disease, as not formed the immune system unable to take certain foods. These gourds are one of the most popular vegetables for a hypoallergenic diet.

puree recipe

For elementary , you can make zucchini puree. To do this, you can use various cooking methods:

• bake in the oven
• cook for a couple
• or boil in water.

For cooking you need wash and clean fresh vegetable from thick outer shell and entrails, slice big pieces and cook about 15 minutes until soft. Then cooked vegetables knead using a blender or rub through a sieve. fit one-component zucchini puree recipe for babies no salt or oil added.

Later, approximately, to develop taste habits, you can add a little butter and salt. Also, from this age, you can cook multi-component vegetable purees, which include zucchini. For a change, you should combine zucchini puree with various vegetables, as well as dairy products. Ready-made puree is not amenable to long-term storage.

How to cook zucchini puree, see our video.