Tomato weaning
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The tomato is a vegetable with many benefits, it praised for its high content of lycopene, a substance with antiaging properties (and some anti-tumor studies), overflowing with vitamins, refreshing, mineralizing. Yet it is also one of the foods that more than others can cause allergic reactions, and this is why tomato is offered only from the ninth / tenth month of age.
In summer, the fresh tomato gives its best flavor and nutritional properties, and if your child is in the right age, it is good to begin to introduce it a little bit at a time. Are potato, carrot and zucchini generally earn the pole position of the solid foods into meals, while for tomato experts advise to wait at least the ninth month, and gradually introduce it in the diet.
You can begin to put it to boil in soup broth, removing it before serving, and spend some 'time to add a spoon in the baby food - cooked, seeded and Peel, up to, little by little, to the true and its sauce for pastries and 'baby food with tomato', tastes generally appreciated by small gourmets. An article published by the magazine weaning 'UPPA - a pediatrician friend', recommends "At 9 months old, introduce fresh tomatoes, if in season, cooked without seasoning or fried and seasoned with raw extra virgin olive oil".
If an allergic reaction will be observed on the facial skin of the little redness, or bubbles with a prevalence on the chin area. In such a case, necessary to suspend the administration of tomato, wait a few days and then try again, always in small doses, to see if the reaction takes still or if the vegetable is implemented well.
Source: http://www.lastampa.it
