From how many months can you give children compote and how to do it right?

When choosing a drink for a baby, mom thinks about the benefits of juices and often prefers homemade compote. Is this drink useful when you can enter it into the children's diet and according to what recipe is it better to cook it for crumbs in the first years of life?

• Due to the content of vitamins, as well as mineral substances, the use of such a drink supports the health of the baby, in particular, helps strengthen the immune system in the winter.
• The child will benefit from its ingredients. For example, in the raspberry compote, they note the ability to lower the temperature, in the cranberry one - to help in treating the common cold, and in the peach one - a positive effect on the eyesight.
• The product acts as a source of pectin.
• This drink will help diversify the child's drinking regime. By including it in the child's diet, mom will give extra liquid to the baby, refusing clean water.
• The drink, in the recipe of which there is dried fruit, has a positive effect on the digestion of children, as well as on their cardiovascular system.
• The sweetness of the fruit eliminates the need to add sugar to the drink.

• Some mineral salts and vitamins are destroyed during preparation.
• If there is sugar in the recipe, it will be a source of extra calories for the baby.

Pediatricians are advised to give compote to a child older than 6-7 months. Before that age babes breastfed do not need extra liquid at all if they are not in very hot conditions and their body temperature is normal. It is possible to prepare it for younger kids at an earlier age.

The first sample of compote should be in the amount of not more than one teaspoon of drink. If the baby has transferred the new product well, the daily amount is gradually increased to the age recommendations. At 7 months, 100 ml of compote per day is recommended, dividing this amount of drink by two or three times. Children older than one year can not be limited, especially with high activity.

1. Water must be clean - preferably intended for feeding children or filtered.
2. The best option is when a mother can boil a compote of fruit collected in her garden or in the country. In this case, in the summer-autumn period, the mother should think about harvesting berries and fruits for making a drink in the winter. It can both dry the summer crop and freeze it.
3. Dried fruit is better to buy in packages, rather than by weight. Choose a dull product, as bright colors may be a sign of the addition of dyes.
4. Preparing products, they should be thoroughly washed and cleaned, and remove the stem and seeds. It is also recommended to scald the fruit with boiling water to get rid of harmful microorganisms.

The first compote that can be prepared for the baby, it is advised to choose apple. Over time, in his recipe, you can add a pear, prunes, wild rose, various berries, dried fruits.

After washing and cleaning a small green apple, cut it into small cubes, cover it with a glass of water and put it on a small fire. When the liquid boils, the fire should be turned off, and the tank should be closed and left for 1 hour. Present drink filter and give the baby.

Babies who are accustomed to apple compotika can be prepared from a mixture of fruit. First, a fresh pear is added to the recipe from apples, and then other fruits, as well as various berries (both fresh and from the freezer). You can experiment with the amount of water added to the fruit. Its volume will depend on the taste of raw materials, and the time of infusion of the drink.

Dried fruits (acquaintance should begin with some one, and later you can prepare a compotik from their mixture), rinse well. They are also recommended to steam with boiling water for a few minutes and rinse again. Then 50 grams of dried fruit is poured with 500 ml of warm water, covered with a lid and left for 8 hours. Without draining the water, the liquid is brought to a boil over low heat, and then insist for another hour.

• Children should be introduced to the compote, in which sugar is not added. You can sweeten drinks that are prepared for children older than a year. However, many parents avoid adding sugar even after one year old, replacing it with fructose, grape sugar, or raisin.
• Ready drink for children can be stored only one day. If the drink stayed longer, it became less useful. In addition, he can ferment and deteriorate.
• Fruit compote can also be eaten. Give them to kids older than a year.