When babies reach six months of age it is recommended to start offering other foods besides breast milk (or artificial milk, if necessary). It's not like there's a rush to eat everything, because milk is still the main food, but it is interesting that I begin to try new foods to begin to know them and so that, little by little, I eat the food that is eaten at home.
Among the new foods offered to children are the cereals, which can be offered as a powder to prepare as part of other foods. By this I mean that a baby who starts eating rice, pasta, bread and cookies is also eating cereals, just like the one the industrialists take. But focusing on these, those that come in powder, I wanted to make a simple reflection: 8 cereal porridge? no need
The gluten-free porridge
To know a little what is the most common range of cereals that you can buy, I tell you which ones you can find in stores. The first ones, which are given after six months, but which can be offered after four months, usually if the mother starts working and milk is not extracted (better to give cereals with water than artificial milk, because there is more risk of allergy), are the gluten free cereals, in which there are rice and corn. We all know what rice is, a gluten-free cereal rich in carbohydrates very famous for its astringent power. Corn, on the other hand, is also a gluten-free cereal that is used to make cornmeal.
5 cereal porridge
The following are the 5 cereal porridge, which already carry gluten are only recommended after 6 months. The ingredients are slightly variable according to the manufacturer, but the most common is that they are the two cereals of the gluten-free porridge together with three cereals with gluten (wheat, corn, rice, barley and rye). The idea of offering these cereals is to make the baby already taste the gluten, a little every day, so that the body knows him and thus decreases the probability of suffering celiac disease.
He wheat We can find it in pasta and bread, and it is better cereal when taken whole grain, because it contains multiple vitamins and mineral salts. The barley It is a cereal that has the peculiarity that is digested superbly. He rye It is used to make flour, and with it to make rye bread, which is darker than usual, which contains more fiber than wheat flour but, on the other hand, contains less protein.
8 cereal porridge
Finally the protagonists of this post arrive. Many parents believe that these are the definitive porridge, something like the type of cereal that every baby has to end up eating to get it right. Something like a sequence: first those of two cereals, then those of five cereals and finally those of eight cereals.
The ingredients of the eight cereal porridge are: wheat, corn, rice, barley, rye, millet, sorghum and oats. The oats It is a hard-to-digest cereal whose assimilation improves when eaten in flakes or, in this case, in powder. It is a good source of protein (which has made it famous in the world of bodybuilding and diets) and is rich in minerals. He Son, on the other hand, it is one of the ones that provide the most energy, it contains iron and magnesium and can also be taken by celiacs, since it does not carry gluten. He sorghum It does not have gluten either and it is a cereal that in our environment is usually used to feed cattle, because at the nutritional level it is slightly lower than other cereals. In poor countries it consumes a lot, because its plantation is very resistant to adverse environmental conditions.
Why it is indifferent to take one or the other porridge
It is possible that I have just described cereals whose name you did not know, and even cereals that you did not even know existed. It's normal because we do not usually consume them. That is why it is indifferent that we give a baby 5 cereal porridge or 8 cereal porridge because the 8 cereal porridge contains cereals that a child will never consume anymore.
As the idea is that we give our food to learn to eat normal food, it does not make much sense to give millet, sorghum, rye and barley to a child, if when you leave the porridge you will not try these cereals again . It is not that it is bad, that it is not, it is simply something that can be interesting for parents, especially if, at the time of buying the porridge, those of 8 cereals are priced higher than those of 5 cereals.
