Children's canned meat

Currently, the range of canned food for baby food is so large that sometimes it can be quite difficult to make your choice in favor of a particular food product. Today we want to talk about canned meat for children. First of all, it is worth noting that in the Soviet Union, and then in the Russian Federation for a long time they gave preference to canned meat, which were made only on a meat basis.

Foreign producers of baby food make canned meat on a mixed basis. This means that in addition to meat, children's canned meat may contain other vegetable ingredients. For this reason the following types of children's meat preserves are distinguished:



purely meat children's canned food;

meat and vegetable children's canned food;

vegetable and meat children's canned food.



As a rule, in addition to the meat itself, the composition of canned food on a mixed basis includes various vegetable and leguminous fillers. children's canned meat produced on a mixed basis allows the nutritionist to achieve high nutritivity of the finished product. it's all about the combination of animals and vegetable components in the composition of children's canned meat. Typically, beef, pork, lamb, veal, as well as lamb or poultry are used to make children's canned meat.

Cereals, as well as legumes or pasta may be present as vegetal raw materials in the composition of children's meat preserves. Most often, for the production of mixed children's canned meat, products such as potatoes, white or cauliflower, onions, beets, carrots, green peas, as well as beans or peas are used. In addition, pasta, rice, buckwheat, corn or semolina and oatmeal may be present in the composition of mixed children's canned meat.

Pure meat children's canned food is a product made on the basis of various varieties of meat, which contains broth, starch or flour, as well as vegetable oil, onions, as well as salt. Often, tomato paste, as well as extracts of dill, celery, parsley and other natural dietary supplements acceptable for children, are used to improve the taste and aroma characteristics of the product for the production of children's canned meat.

Currently, manufacturers of children's canned meat produce three main types of product. Puree-like, homogenized and coarsely crushed children's canned meat. All the above types of children's canned food differ in consistency, as well as chemical composition. Children's meat and mixed meat and vegetable canned food differentiate depending on the age of the child. it is believed that it is better to start feeding canned meat from the age of 7-8 months.

However, homogenized or finely ground canned children can be added to the baby's diet from the age of 6 months. Parents should remember that it is better to exclude canned meat from the diet of children suffering from allergic reactions.