How to make smooth and lump-free baby food with a blender

The texture of complementary foods for infants is very important because it relates to the ability of infants to swallow, as well as to the digestion and absorption of nutrients [7, 8]. And lest everyone who is infants or toddlers eat and eat an eat but not absorb enough nutrition, smooth, grain-free complementary foods are made. Based on this theoretical basis and practical experience, the paper expounds on the principle, technology and note for the use of the blender to surplus baby complementary food at the same time, in order to provide the basis of scientific and efficient for guisdance to parents for Complementary food.

Theoretical Background: The Main Factors Influencing the Texture of Complementary Food

To make a smooth, grain-free baby food, you need to understand the mostly important properties that influence the texture. These factors mainly relate to food selection, pretreatment method, stirring technique and post-treatment.

1.1 Ingredients selection: The fiber content, water content and structural hardness of different ingredients have a direct influence on the texture after mixing. The guiding principle is to choose tender- textured ingredients that are likely to soften readily. For example, ripe bananas, avocados, squash and other vegetables and fruits may be easier to process into smooth complementary foods.

1.2 Pre-treatment Process: Pre-treatment of food materials, such as steaming, braise, etc, can soften the structurization of originating food, damage the cell wall and help the food materials to be uniform grinding by the chest-tenning machine. The texture in the final product is highly dependent on the time and heat of pretreatment.

The three core factor internal to the mixing of complementary food are mixing speed, mixing time and performance of mixer. Mixing speed and time will be different than what you'd expect depending on the ingredient, while crushing ability is in a large part dictated by the blender's power and blade design.

1.4 Post-treatment: The post-treatment consists of filtration and then remixing. Having the residue of the ingredients that are not crushed can be filtered out through filtration, and the smoothness of complementary food can be improved through secondary stirring.

2, selection and preparation of the mixer: doing the right thing

The right blender and timing of your preparations will be the keys to leveling up to excellent smooth complementary foods in no time!

2.1 Mixer type:

Ordinary household mixer: Well, big power, but large-scale production of auxiliary food, easy to splash, uneven blowing.

Baby complementary food special mixer: generally small capacity, fine blade design, more suitable for making baby complementary food, and cook function for few specifications.

Stick-type stirring rod: flexible use, direct stirring in pot or bowl, convenient and fast, but certain operation skills.

2.2 Preparation of mixer:

Cleaning and disinfection: your health and safety protector, applied comprehensive cleaning to mixing cups, blades and other parts as well as high temperature disinfection before every use.

Sensor: Check whether the blade sharp, whether there is passivation, should replace in time, in order to ensure the mixing effect.

Understand how the mixer works: In case you want to understand how the mixer works, read the mixer instructions carefully so that you can understand the various functions, operation methods and precautionary measures of the mixer.

The third practice guide is a smooth non-granular food production skills:

Type-Based Guides for Creating Smooth, Grainless Complementary Foods

3.1 Supplemental foods of vegetables:

First rule of thumb: Choose low-fibre vegetables, for example pumpkin, potato, yam, broccoli, as adults.

Before treatment: Wash the vegetables in a good, peel them off the skin, remove the seeds and cut into small pieces. They are usually steamed or boiled to help soften the vegetables to ensure that they are cooked through.

Churn: Add the cooked vegetables into a mixing cup, a little bit of boiling water or breast milk/formula into the mix, and then slowly to medium speed, until you gain to uniformly pureed baby food.

Strain: You may have to strain through fine mesh strainer to remove the vegetable pulp for a smoother consistency.

3.2 Consume complementary foods with fruits:

Ingredients: Ripe Fruits: Banana, Avocado, Mango, Papaya, etc.

Before the going: Wash, peel and core the fruit and chop it into small pieces. Cooking can soften tough fruits (think: apples and pears).

Whisk: Do not add any more water, put the fruit into a mixing cup and whisk until pureed.

Oxidation resistance: Some fruits (such as apples, pears) are prone to oxidative discoloration, you can bodybuilder available before mixing a little lemon juice in order to prevent discoloration.

3.3 Complementary meat foods:

Ingredient selection: Meat can be selected: chicken breast, pork tenderloin, etc.

Preparation: Clean the meat, cutting off fascia and fat; chop into small pieces. To ready it for shredding, the meat is steamed or boiled to ensure that it was cooked through.

Blend: Pass cooked meat into a mixing cup, pour in the proper quantity of stock (or warm water) and mix at the low speed until it accelerates gradually and turns out to be smooth and homogenous puree. If necessary, make a lot of unrest or repeatedly filtered.

Simplicity: The meat puree can create any type of mix with other puree, such as vegetable puree, grain puree in order to improve the essence.

3.4 Hoof curl Food treats:

Easily digestible flours such as rice, millet, oats, and so on.

Treatment beyond the treatment: Rinse the grain and place it in water until it is fully hydrated and swollen.

Production: Soak the grain in the pot add amount of water boil into porridge.

Mix：Transfer the soaked glutinous rice to a mixing cup and mix it to a smooth rice batter or porridge batter.

Fourth, the skills of characterization of complimentary food ratios

4.1 slightly add a few times water: In the process of mixing, several times to add a little warm water or breast milk / formula, can can make the ingredients more evenly crushed, but also guarantee better complementary food of fluidity.

4.2 Repeated stirring: When the stirring is not perfect, pause the stirring, take a spoon and scrape the solid parts attached to the wall of the cup, repeat the operation until meet the ideal smoothness.

4.3 Coarse fiber ingredients, turn to a high-speed gear of mixer, so as to quicken grinding ingredients

Filtration 4.4: The non-crush food particles are filtered through the fine filter screen, which is an effective way to improve the smoothness of complementary food.

Practical aspects for safety and storage

5.1 Food safety: Εvery ingredient should be fresh, hygienic and free from any pesticide residues.

5.2 Mixer Safety: Make sure you use a mixer within the ratings provided by the manufacturer to minimize the risk of an overload or an accident.

Food: 5.3 Storage time complementary, complementary feeding food should be eaten as soon as possible after preparation; if the need for storage, the food should be divided into airtight containers, refrigerated and consumed within 24 hours. Exclusively a month frozen storage, after thawing must be completely sharp.

5.4 Observation of allergies: When adding new foods to infants and young children, pay attention to whether there are allergic reactions, such as rash, diarrhea, vomiting, etc. Do not eat the ingredients, especially if you are allergic to any of the posibles allergens.

Vi. Conclusion

This makes for creamy, nice, grain free baby food. This requires the right blender, correct production method, and safety and hygiene, then parents can cook the right nutrition and soft complementary food as the baby, laying a solid foundation for the healthy growth of the baby. It is recommended that parents at the same time to explore the implementation of complementary food formula and production methods flexible to infants and young children age, digestion ability and taste preferences, It is advisable to help infants and young children to get the optimum nutrition support when to make proper complementary food.