It IS better to give children fruit juice, preferably fresh fruit juices. Moreover, if the blender, not juiced, because the children also get the fiber, not just the vitamins of the fruit.
Fruit including the food pyramid food groups. Although the required daily intake is not too much, fruit is rich in nutrients, especially vitamins and minerals. Unfortunately, not all children like the fruit. Children are generally reluctant to chew apples, bananas, oranges, or other types. In a way, the fruit does not include a child's favorite food group.
It took a while for kids to like eating fruit. As with the fruit-flavored drinks, kids usually like. Sweetness that comes out of fruit-flavored beverage that is more compelling than the original fruit juice.
Provide fruit juice in containers is fine, let alone put 100 percent real fruit. "But it's not entirely accurate," says Dr. Dida Gurnida, SP.A, Kes., A specialist in nutrition and metabolic son of Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung.
Undeniably, many people incorrectly thought they had a drink or give the children some fruit juice. In fact, given only a taste or esense fruit. Moreover, he said. Dida, fruit juices or juice drinks "taste" the fruit that has been packaged using preservatives. Just a little juice products that do not use preservatives. Packaging technology is allowing a product does not use preservatives.
Apart from the problem, better give fresh fruit juice that is processed immediately, especially if blended. "Because there is still a fiber," adds Dr. Dida.
Process or blend the juice is actually intended to facilitate the consumption of fruit for children. Parents who experience difficulty when giving fruit to children, can work around this by blending or juicing of various materials that make the fruit taste better and interesting. Instead, when you blend, do not give extra sugar because the fruit is fruit sugar.
Other benefits are also obtained directly from fruit processing is the content of the nutrients contained in it is still pretty good. Packaging process can make the nutrients contained in it come down.
Peel the skin
In the book The Family Nutrition Book by William Sears, MD and Martha Sears, RN, there are a few suggestions before the fruit blended or juiced.
1. The skin of fruits and vegetables contain nutrients that are usually good, although sometimes not very safe because it may still contain pesticides. It is best not to peel fruits and vegetables organically, to reduce the pesticides enter the body.
2. When peeling an orange, do not clean the white part because it contains bioflavonoids.
3. Peel all fruits and vegetables that have undergone a process pelilinan.
4. In general, fruit should be cored before juiced or blended. However, grapefruit, melons, and grapes, can still be included when blended or created juice.
5. Drinks slowly. Drinking too fast and rush to make a disturbed digestion. Drinks in small quantities to the gastrointestinal tract of children accustomed to a new kind of juice. And allow little time for the intestines to digest.
Most of the juice can be diarrhea
Eating too much fruit juice accounted for the increased incidence of children being overweight or overweight. Once the statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 2001. Obesity in childhood has become an epidemic problem. One in four U.S. children are overweight or at risk of overweight.
Many parents who regulate food intake so that the child is not overweight, but they forgot the drinks are included in the child's mouth. Susan S. Baker, MD, Ph.D., chairman of the AAP Committee on Nutrition, stressing the importance of attention to excessive intake of fruit juice.
"Many parents do not realize that fruit juices contain sugar and excess calories. In fact, relatively few nutrients. As a result, children who consume juice throughout the day will experience a decrease in essential nutrients necessary for body growth, "said Susan.
According to the AAP report, most bottled fruit juice does not contain the significant nutrients other than vitamin C. Nutrients are the most common carbohydrates, sucrose, fructose, or any other form of sugar.
When consumed in large quantities, sugar diasup can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, bloating, and farting. Not to mention most bottled juices also contain no fiber or nutrients offers the benefits derived from the fruit as a whole.
Numerous scientific studies show that babies who consume too much juice can result in nutritional deficiencies because the juice will replace breast milk or formula. Juice that is not really derived from 100 percent real fruit usually contain additional sweeteners, flavors, and other materials.
Although fruit juice that comes from 100 percent fruit to be part of a healthy child's diet, excessive consumption will still be associated with malnutrition, diarrhea, abdominal pain, or tooth decay. Therefore, the AAP recommends fruit juice intake is limited only half a glass per day for children aged 1-6 years and one glass for those aged 7-18 years.
