When can I give sausage to a child?

Every mother knows about the importance of meat products in the nutrition of children. From meat, kids get important nutrients, including proteins, iron, amino acids, calcium and some vitamins. Their insufficient use can provoke developmental delays and various health problems. So what about the advisability of including Chicken or beef in the children's menu do not argue.

However, many adults choose sausages and other sausages as a substitute for meat products for their meals. And when a baby appears in the family, they are interested in whether it is permissible to give sausage in childhood, for example, to a one-year-old child.

Products such as sausage and sausages, like most children. They are quick and easy to prepare, but does the child need this semi-finished product?

To decide on their attitude to sausages in the nutrition of children, each mother needs to know about these nuances:

• Although sausage is considered a meat delicacy and meat is indeed the main ingredient of this product, the composition of almost all sausages and sausages includes many other components, among which may be harmful to children. Add skin, soy, dyes, preservatives, flavoring additives to sausage. Allergies can occur to any of these added ingredients.
• For a rich, pleasant taste, various chemical compounds are added to the boiled sausage, as well as a lot of salt and spices. These foods in the children's diet are undesirable. In addition, due to the pronounced taste of the sausage, the child may refuse natural meat.
• Sausage is permissible in the diet only as an emergency substitute for meat products, for example, if mom did not have time to cook dinner. Therefore, it is impossible to feed children with sausages regularly.
• Buying sausage in the store, mom is not insured from purchasing a stale product, After all, the shelf life of high-quality sausages is small. Symptoms of poisoning with poor-quality sausages include nausea, weakness, vomiting, thinning of the stool, and abdominal pain. When they appear, the child should be shown to the doctor immediately.

The opinion of most pediatricians, since how many years there are sausages, even if they are intended for children, provides for the restriction of such semi-finished products to the age of 2-3 years.

When a child tries sausage, it should be included in the diet no more than 1 time per week. In this case, sausages are generally not recommended for children with obesity, diseases of the digestive tract or allergies.

Blood sausage, even if it is cooked at home, should not be given until 5 years of age. Smoked or dried sausage should not be given to children under 7 years old.

• When buying sausages that will be eaten by a child, you need to carefully examine their packaging.
• Choose a low-fat product with a minimum list of ingredients.
• In the nutrition of children sausages made from chicken or turkey are more preferable.
• If you can not buy sausage labeled "for children", you can purchase a product in the title of which is "doctor's" or "milk".
• Try the sausage yourself before giving it to the baby. If the product is sour, salty or spicy, it is not suitable for baby food.
• Pay attention to the shelf life of sausage products. Keep an open package of sausages in the fridge for no longer than two days.

If the mother is concerned about the great love of the sausages for the child and wondered how to wean the toddler from the sausage, you can try to replace the sausages from the store with a home equivalent.

The recipe for homemade sausages involves the use of chopped natural meat (often chicken fillet). The minced meat is mixed with a few spoons of milk or a beaten egg, and then salted to taste. Sometimes other products are added, for example, pieces of boiled vegetables or cheese.

Ready stuffing wrapped in foil or cut into rectangles baking bag. The ends of the packaging material twist, forming a "sausage". Next, the semi-finished product is boiled or baked until cooked.

About the dangers of purchased sausage products and provoking cancerous tumors, see the program "To live healthy".