Because of its contribution of vitamins and minerals, fruit is an essential part of your baby's diet. Since you start introducing solid foods, always according to those that are appropriate for your age, you can start offering a wide variety of fruits.
It is common to think that giving a juice is equivalent to giving the whole piece, but it is not the same. PFor your baby's fruit, the whole piece is better or cut into pieces, but the fruit as is.
Even if it is the juice of the crushed fruit and nothing else is added, neither sugar nor anything, when liquefied, the fruit loses very important nutritional properties.
To make a juice (orange, for example) we need two or three pieces of fruit, which means double or triple the calories that if we give it only one piece. On the other hand, the entire piece provides more fiber, very important, among other things, for digestive health.
We also have to keep in mind that a piece of fruit at breakfast, as a dessert or snack, produces a greater feeling of satiety than if the child drinks a fruit juice, avoiding eating other foods and contributing to prevent childhood obesity.
Apart from this, it is always more stimulating for the baby to be in contact with the whole piece of fruit, or cut into pieces, in the case of orange for example, it is better for the baby to take it with his hands and suck it, Even if it gets stained The experience of touching and handling food is very beneficial for its development.
Of course, a 100% natural squeezed fruit juice is preferable to one packed with a high content of added sugars and acids. An abuse of these juices, in addition to promoting overweight, favors the appearance of chronic diarrhea and deteriorates the enamel by promoting the appearance of dental caries.
Nothing happens to give a squeezed juice of natural fruit from time to time, of course not, but do not substitute the consumption of whole fruits with juices.
