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How to introduce new foods into your child's diet

How to introduce new foods into your child's diet

Food is one of the great challenges of early childhood education . Feeding a child requires a lot of patience, calmness, determination, affection and, above all, wisdom.

Eating healthy and enjoying natural foods is a learning process that should begin at 6 months of age with the introduction of complementary foods for breastfeeding . From 6 months to 3 years of age is the best phase to teach your child to have a habit of trying new flavors. At age 2, children begin to do more things without help, to choose what to eat and to reject food to train their newly conquered independence. In general, what the child eats up to age four is the standard that will remain until adult life. From this age on, the child eats new foods but with little variation from what he has learned and the taste he has developed in the first four years of life.

Processed foods

Food products are highly palatable not only to children, but also for adults. They are rich in salt and sugar to make them more durable, crisp, tasty and attractive. The earlier the introduction of industrialized foods, the more difficult the success of healthy eating. It is no use banning the consumption of something that the child already knows and likes. It is best to leave industrialized foods for after 2 years of age and consumption should be sporadic, reserved for situations such as children's parties and trips to other cities.

Influence of parents

Contrary to popular belief, no are the children and schoolmates, but rather the parents the main influence on the food choices of their children. It is parents who buy and offer food for children and it is in them that children learn a model of life and behavior. It is for this reason that children who consume fruits and vegetables are usually daughters of parents who enjoy and consume these foods. It will be a waste of time to require your child to eat vegetables if both you and your husband or wife do not consume vegetables on a daily basis.

Resistance to new foods

Every child is born with the instinct to reject more bitter foods to avoid accidental intake of poisonous fruit. In addition, young children love routine and familiarity and need to see the same food several times before experimenting. But what we see now are children, with only 2 or 3 years of age with industrialized palate, accept only very salty or very sweet. They do not appreciate the bitter, sour and umami flavors and reject foods with little salt and with a mild sweet taste. Also they present difficulty with different textures, mainly with non homogenous foods and that present / display more of a texture as for example the plum that is solid and succulent, almonds that are very hard and the viscosity of marine kelp. According to the SBP (Brazilian Society of Pediatrics), children need to be exposed to a new food eight to 10 times to accept it.

How to introduce new foods

Parents often use inappropriate strategies. Forcing, threatening, punishing, blackmailing, comparing, and competing among children, ie turning mealtime into the "hour of awe" are strategies that are doomed to fail.

The best strategy is to bring the child into the process purchase and preparation of food. Always in a harmonious, quiet and very affectionate environment so that the child has a good experience with the new food and keeps good memories for the next time he is exposed to it.

Tips for the child to try new fruits and vegetables

Include the child in the purchase of the vegetables, take it to the supermarket, free markets and horto markets to discover the variety of vegetables, greenery and fruits. Make it a fun program, try the foods, enjoy the taste, aroma, texture and shape that it expresses most interest. Buy coconut water or cane juice. Show your child how to prepare the cane juice, where the coconut water comes from, and how to cook the grated coconut

  • Take the child to the kitchen and prepare simple recipes that contain the fruit or vegetable in question as the main ingredient salad, skewer, orange cake, banana or carrot, apple pie or broccoli, fruit jelly, among others
  • Set a good example for children when consuming fruits and vegetables daily. Whenever possible, parents should consume these foods together with the children
  • Leave the fruits and vegetables available to the table or kitchen countertop so that they are the most accessible food in the hour of hunger
  • In the morning and afternoon snack Make a sachet of natural fruit juice, fruit jelly, fruit tart, fruit cake
  • Note the child's reactions when introducing a new fruit or vegetable if she does not like it, wait a few days and try again.


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