Winter Baby Diet
Release time : 03/09/2025 09:30:01
During the winter months, it can be challenging for babies to move around and many mothers are hesitant to take their children out in cold weather.
However, the baby's body doesn't slow down its development speed due to winter. Every cell is working hard, so mothers can't neglect their baby's nutritional needs during winter! So how can babies get enough nutrition during winter? What should babies eat during winter? What kind of food should be consumed by babies during winter? With the dry and cold weather in winter affecting internal metabolism, enhancing cellular oxidation, and causing various nutrients to be consumed at an increased rate, winter is a high-risk season for babies to suffer from various nutrient deficiencies.
When winter arrives, mothers need to make adjustments in their diets according to the season to ensure that their babies have a healthy winter.
In the winter, it is appropriate to consume certain foods that are beneficial for physical development and health.
1. Foods rich in protein, carbohydrates and fats will automatically increase the secretion of thyroid hormones and adrenalin due to climate change, so as to promote and accelerate the decomposition of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, and generate more heat for the body.
So, in winter, the body's heat loss is greater, and we need to increase the amount of energy in our diet. We should encourage children to eat more beans and other legumes, as well as beef, chicken, fish, and shrimp.
2. Vitamins are essential for the immune system, and consuming sufficient amounts can effectively enhance the body's defense mechanisms during the winter months when children are prone to respiratory illnesses such as colds.
In the winter, two vitamins are worth paying attention to. One is vitamin A, and the other is vitamin D.
Research has shown that Vitamin A is closely related to respiratory infections, while Vitamin D can most directly affect the body's immunity.
In winter, some common vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, round cabbage, carrot, bean sprouts, mustard greens, lettuce and so on have rich contents of vitamins.
Parents should make reasonable arrangements, frequently change the variety of colors and varieties, so that children's nutrients are sufficient in all aspects.
If you don't have a lot of green leafy vegetables, you can eat more potatoes and sweet potatoes. They are rich in Vitamin C, Vitamin B, and Vitamin A. Red-fleshed sweet potatoes also contain a lot of beta-carotene.
Eating more of the tubers has been shown to have a cooling effect and detoxifying properties.
In addition, the liver of animals is rich in vitamin A, so children should also eat more appropriately in winter.
3. Moisturizing food. Radish has strong qigong effects. It can also relieve cough and phlegm, moisten throat and clear throat, lower qi and appetizing appetite, remove dryness and produce fluid, and cool and detoxify.
As the saying goes,"Eating radish in winter and eating ginger in summer does not require the doctor to prescribe a prescription", which means that radish has good health care functions.
There are many ways to eat radishes. They can be eaten raw, cold, stir-fried, or made into soup.
Winter melon is sweet and cool in nature. It has the effects of clearing heat and quenching thirst, benefiting water and swelling swelling. It can be used for coughing with excessive phlegm, mental disturbance, etc.
In addition, mushrooms, bitter gourd, white fungus, etc., also have the effect of moistening dryness.
4. Foods high in dietary fiber can regulate the absorption and excretion of food, maintain regular bowel movements, and are very beneficial for the removal of toxins from the body.
Additionally, dietary fiber also plays a role in weight management.
Therefore, it is important for children to consume a diet rich in whole grains such as corn and sorghum, as well as legumes like soybeans and red beans, and vegetables like spinach and celery, which contain a significant amount of dietary fiber.
5. Bacteria and algae-containing foods such as shiitake mushrooms, Hericium erinaceus, and white fungus, as well as seaweeds like Kelp and Seaweed, contain essential macronutrients and trace elements necessary for children's growth, including phosphorus and iodine, which can enhance the child's immune system and improve overall physical fitness.
In the winter, it is advisable to allow children to consume more of these types of foods.
6. Foods rich in minerals include those with roots and tuberous parts. Medical studies have shown that a deficiency of these minerals can lead to a feeling of coldness. To help your baby stay warm, it is recommended that you increase their intake of vegetables with root systems during the winter months, such as carrots, potatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, lotus roots, greens, and cabbages.
The root and stem of these vegetables contain more inorganic salts.
During winter, there is an increase in urine output and the excretion of inorganic salts also increases.
If we eat more foods rich in calcium, iron, sodium, and potassium, such as shrimp skins, shrimp paste, pork liver, bananas, etc., we can effectively prevent the deficiency of these minerals.
Diet Cooking Characteristics in Winter: 1. The main food should be hot. In winter, the diet should mainly consist of warm foods, and when cooking, it is best to prepare foods such as soups, porridges, or cakes, rather than eat or avoid fried, roasted, or grilled foods.
It is not advisable to provide babies with an excessive amount of cold food, as cold foods are difficult to digest and can potentially harm the baby's young digestive tract. Children with weak spleen-cold should pay special attention to this.
In addition, heat is dissipated quickly in winter, and the use of thickening can prevent the temperature of the dishes from dropping too quickly, such as soup-paste dishes.
Winter dishes should have a thick taste, which is obviously different from summer dishes, which are light.
2. Choose warm ingredients. When mothers choose food for their baby in winter, they should focus on warm food.
Fruits suitable for baby to eat in winter include: apples, kiwis, bananas, grapefruit, and oranges.
Animal foods suitable for babies in winter include: pork, beef, mutton, chicken, fish, shrimp, etc.
In addition, soy products are a good raw material for winter dishes. For example, dried tofu is cooked with braised pork, lactone tofu is made into meat soup or fish soup, cabbage, pork and tofu pot, etc., which are all nutritious dishes suitable for babies.
In your daily diet, it should be light and less greasy, and the food should be thin, soft and easy to digest.
Children can be allowed to eat appropriate foods that nourish the spleen and stomach and help digestion, such as yam, tuckahoe, lentils, lotus seeds, etc.
Baby's diet precautions in winter: 1. No additional food intake is needed. Some mothers mistakenly believe that in winter, babies need more high-protein and high-fat foods to withstand cold weather.
In fact, modern scientific research has confirmed that in cold climates, the body's endocrine system is also mobilized, increasing the body's heat-producing ability.
Therefore, the energy we need in winter is not much different from other seasons.
There is no need to increase the amount of food you eat for your baby to get more energy.
2. Pay attention to balanced diets; although meat can provide calories for babies, mothers must remember that a baby's diet should be nutritionally balanced. Combining staple foods with coarse grains is recommended.
3. To prevent obesity, as adults do, baby's appetite also increases during the winter months. Mothers should be careful not to allow their babies to consume excessive calories, so as not to cause obesity due to overconsumption of these calories.
4. Prepare for spring's growth spurt by saying, "Winter is coming, but spring is not far away."
Spring is the golden period for children's growth. Mothers should start nurturing their children's growth from winter and ensure they drink milk of 250-500 ml every day, including kelp, soybeans, tofu, and black fungus at least once a week.
5. Encouraging your child to love vegetables is a challenge, as some children have aversion to eating vegetables or only eat certain types of vegetables.
At this time, mothers should not force their babies to eat at once. Such an approach will only have the opposite effect.
Alternatively, start with expanding the range of vegetables available. For instance, choose from a variety of green leafy vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, spinach, celery, and bean sprouts. Include cruciferous vegetables like cauliflower, broccoli, and bok choy. Then there are root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, winter squash, and sweet potatoes. Finally, include mushrooms in your selection.
However, the process may be relatively lengthy. To help your baby embrace a vegetable-based diet, it's important for you to remain patient, patient, and persistent.
6. Appropriate Vitamin D Supplementation: Due to limited outdoor activities during winter, babies are likely to suffer from vitamin D deficiency if they receive little sunlight exposure.
This requires mothers to supplement Vitamin D regularly for their baby.
Suitable for babies to eat in winter, the baby's daily diet should also be light and easy to digest.
Therefore, preparing various nutritious porridges for babies during the winter is an excellent choice for moms.
Ginger, Jujube, and Millet Porridge (Recommended for Babies Over 8 Months Old) Ingredients: 10g fresh ginger, 4 jujubes, and 30g millet.
Method: slice fresh ginger and add to a pot with an appropriate amount of water and cook for about 15 minutes.
Drain the fresh ginger, peel and pit the dates, then add the millet and cook for about 30 minutes.
Efficacy: Regulate spleen and stomach, resolve the exterior.
Children with spleen and stomach imbalance, prone to vomiting, and diarrhea are more suitable for taking this porridge to regulate.
Ingredients for Scallion and Rice Porridge: 5 to 6 slices of scallions (root end of the scallion), 6 to 7 slices of fresh ginger, an appropriate amount of japonica rice.
Method: Firstly, cook the rice into a porridge. Then put the green onion and ginger in the porridge when it is almost ready. After 5-10 minutes, turn off the heat.
Efficacy: This porridge has a certain therapeutic effect on treating cold in babies.
Ingredients for Cod Fish Whole Grain Porridge: 100 grams of cod fish, 20 grams of mung bean, 50 grams of rice, 20 grams of corn residue, and a spoonful of vinegar.
Practice: 1. After thawing the frozen cod pieces, squeeze out the ice water, wash them, place them in a small bowl, add a little balsamic vinegar, and steam them on the drawer for 10 minutes.
2. After steaming, remove the soft thorns from the cod for later use.
3. Wash the millet, rice, and corn residue, pour it into the pan, add a bowl of water, and cook for 10 minutes.
4. Break up the cod at this time, put it into the multi-grain porridge and continue to boil until the porridge becomes thick.
Efficacy: Cod has thick meat quality, few thorns and delicious taste. It contains a variety of amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids and multiple vitamins necessary for baby development. It has the advantages of high nutrition and low cholesterol, and is very suitable for baby.
Sesame Porridge Ingredients: 10g of sesame seeds, 50g of rice, and an appropriate amount of honey or salt.
Method: First, roast the sesame seeds until they give off their aroma. Then cook rice in water until it becomes a porridge and add the sesame seeds. Add honey or salt to taste before eating.
Benefits: Sesame seeds can be divided into white sesame seeds and black sesame seeds. White sesame seeds have the effect of benefiting the intestines and replenishing lung Qi.
Black sesame seeds can nourish the kidneys and strengthen the muscles and bones.
The soup for babies to drink in winter is shrimp skin, seaweed, tomato and egg yolk soup (suitable for babies over one year old). Ingredients: One egg, one small tomato, shrimp skin, seaweed and chopped green onion in appropriate amounts.
Oil, clear salt and a pinch of minced ginger.
Method: Wash the dried shrimp, tear the dried seaweed into small pieces.
Sliced tomatoes.
One egg, beat it up and set aside.
Heat the wok, add appropriate amount of water, wait for the water to boil, add tomatoes, shrimp skins and seaweed.
When boiling again, pour in egg liquid and add sesame oil, refined salt and chopped green onion.
Efficacy: The soup tastes delicious and is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine and other nutrients. It is very beneficial for your baby to supplement calcium and iodine.
Ingredients for tomato and beef bone soup: 600 grams of tomatoes, 600 grams of potatoes, 3 slices of ginger, 600 grams of beef bones, and a little salt.
Practice: Select fresh beef bones and fold them into large pieces, put the beef bones in boiling water and cook for about 5 minutes, and pick up.
Cut tomatoes and potatoes into chunks respectively, peel the potatoes, cut into thick slices or quickly, and set aside.
Slice three slices of ginger.
Add appropriate amount of water to the earthen pot, boil over high heat until the water boils, then add all the ingredients, wait for the water to boil, switch to medium to low heat and continue for about 3 hours, season with a little salt, and you can drink.
Efficacy: It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stimulating appetite, strengthening the muscles and bones, nourishing and nourishing the body.
Drinking this soup often can stimulate appetite and enhance the strength of your feet.
It is most suitable for children to drink. It can promote development and strengthen muscles and bones.
Ingredients for cream mushroom soup: 450ml milk, 1g salt, 5g cream, 10ml olive oil, 1 piece of ham, 30g flour, 2 mushrooms. Practice: Stir the flour in a pan with olive oil until it smells like baked steamed buns.
Slice the mushrooms into thin slices and cut the ham into bits.
Fried noodles, roll them a few times with a rolling pin, remove the dough balls, and add a small amount of water to make a paste.
Pour the milk and cream into the pan and cook over slow fire.
Add mushrooms, ham and stir-fried batter, stir well and bring to a boil.
Efficacy: Milk is rich in calcium, and mushroom is rich in protein and vitamin B. It is easy to digest and is suitable for babies.
Beef borscht ingredients: beef brisket 300g, 1/2 carrot, 1 potato, 1 onion, 1/2 cabbage, 250g, a little salt Practice: cut the beef brisket into small pieces, boil them hot in boiling water, and pick them up for later use.
Tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, onions are washed and peeled. The cabbage is washed and cut into pieces.
Put all the ingredients prepared into the pot and add 6 bowls of boiling water. After boiling for a while, lower the heat to simmer slowly for one hour. When the beef is cooked to a soft state, add salt to taste.
Effects: Beef stew can enhance immunity. Potatoes contain starch, vitamin C and potassium which are very beneficial for brain development and can improve reflexes and reduce the incidence of convulsions.
The medical information provided in this text is for reference only.
If there is any discomfort, it is recommended to seek medical attention immediately. For accurate diagnosis and treatment, please consult a face-to-face doctor.