Don't buy a hawthorn stick for your child, half -bite is sugar, and you don’t discuss your teeth.

Author:Lilac mother Time:2022.09.26

Many parents buy snacks such as hawthorn rods for baby. Pure hawthorn is made into no addition. Children who are sour and sweet like to eat, and they can also appear and digest. The slender small strip is also good to make a finger food for the small moon -year -old babies.

There are similar hawthorn strips, hawthorn slices, and hawthorn blocks, which are healthy snacks that many families usually have.

However, nutritionists should remind parents: Don't give their children this hawthorn snacks, not only can not help the baby appetite, but also buried hidden hazards. It is not recommended to give babies under the age of 3.

Hawthorn can appetite and digest

Hawthorn rods, hawthorn strips cannot

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As the saying goes, there are often hawthorn appetizers to help digestion.

Everyone thinks that it can appear to digest. On the one hand, the sourness of hawthorn fruits can stimulate appetite, and on the other hand, its nutritional component really has a digestible effect.

Hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids, which can promote the secretion of digestive enzymes and especially help to break down digestive meat foods. The insoluble dietary fiber in the flesh is also conducive to promoting intestinal peristalsis. In addition, hawthorn pulp is also rich in vitamin C, carotene, and minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, selenium.

From this point of view, hawthorn is all treasures. Why is it not suitable for babies to eat when hawthorn sticks and hawthorn strips are available?

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The problem is that in the process of processing of hawthorn rods, the nutritional value of fresh fruits has been greatly reduced:

First of all, in the process of hawthorn squeezing fruit juice, a large amount of insoluble dietary fiber was filtered out, and the effect of promoting intestinal peristalsis weakened;

Secondly, fruit cake products such as hawthorn should be processed by a series of high -temperature processing such as cooking, baking, and molding. The nutrients contained in fresh fruits will be damaged to varying degrees. Acids, losses are even greater.

The snacks of hawthorn products are only hawthorn skin, and there is no soul of hawthorn.

One mouthful of hawthorn sticks may be sugar in half mouth

Not suitable for babies under 3 years old

Give your children a hawthorn rod and hawthorn roll, nor are they nutrition. It is also good to eat a sweet and sour child.

It's really not.

Don't forget, the biggest feature of pure natural hawthorn is

Sour sore!

According to my country's "GB/T 31318-2014 Honeymake Hawthorn Products" standards, hawthorn strips and hawthorn sticks are hawthorn cake foods, and others include hawthorn slices, hawthorn preserved, and fruit Danpi.

These hawthorn foods are sour and sweet, and they are actually because a large amount of sugar or sugar is added.

We can just find a hawthorn rod ingredients to see that there are indeed no pigments, no preservatives, and only hawthorn and white sugar are clean.

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And don't think that hawthorn sticks are sour, you think that there are not many white sugar added. In fact, there are really a lot of. You can calculate it from the nutritional component table.

The carbohydrates in hawthorn rods mainly come from hawthorn and white sugar. In the figure below, the content of carbohydrates of hawthorn rods is 81.5 g / 100 g, and the content of carbohydrates in the hawthorn itself is about every 25.1 g / 100 g. Then the content of white sugar is 81.5 g -25.1 g = 56.4 g.

In other words, every 100g hawthorn rod, the content of white sugar may be as high as 56.4 g, which is equivalent to every hawthorn stick for the baby, and half of the mouth is white sugar.

One mouthful of hawthorn rods, maybe half of the mouth is sugar

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"Chinese Resident Dietary Guide (2022)" suggested that babies should not take sugar before 3 years old. So really don't have a hawthorn stick, it is even worse to eat a baby before the age of 1.

There are also some hawthorn sticks and hawthorn rolls on the market. Although the sugar can better control the calories, long -term intake will still make the baby form a sweet taste.

As a food additive, sugar is not suitable for adding infant foods. It is not recommended to eat hawthorn sticks containing sugar for babies under the age of 3. Even if babies over 3 years old eat, strict control must be controlled.

Hawthorn snack sticky teeth are difficult to clean

Exhaust the risk of baby caries

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Parents who have bought them know that the hawthorn sticks in the mouth are sticky and soft. If the residue is accidentally hidden in the baby's teeth nest ditch, teeth, or oral mucosa.

The baby's teeth are still developing, the enamel development is not mature, and the resistance to bacteria is still weak.

As mentioned earlier, hawthorn snacks have a high sugar content. These sugar ingredients will be decomposed into acidic substances by oral bacteria in the mouth, causing the teeth to corrode and the ore to soften, and eventually become tooth decay.

An analysis study in 2015 shows that organic acids in acidic juice increase the chance of teeth erosion. Hawthorn juice is exactly rich in organic acids, and it is superimposed with a large amount of sucrose with a large amount of sucrose, which is simply a double knife assassin of the baby's tooth healthy.

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Coupled with the sour and sweet snacks such as hawthorn rods, they can't stop at all. Some babies eat while playing. I don't know how long it will be in the mouth. Eclipse to the teeth.

In short, although pure natural and non -added hawthorn snacks look healthy, most of them add sugar or sugar, which is not suitable for babies under 3 years of age.

Babies over 3 years old really want to eat. It is also recommended to choose small packaging low sugar and sugar, and eat in moderation and finish as soon as possible. After eating, it is best to use mouthwash, dental floss, brushing, etc. to clean the viscous substances on the surface and gaps of the teeth to reduce the risk of causing tooth decay. references

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