Posted by admin | Posted in Organic Baby Products | Posted on 01-07-2009
Prepared Organic Baby Meals
This page should have information if you are looking for Prepared Organic Baby Meals
I lovingly prepare my baby organic meals and then zap them in the microwave for 15 secs to warm them thru.....
Am I damaging the nutrients in the food using microwaves?.........or worse still.... theres no way that the microwaves could harm my baby ?(if they are just used to heat his food). Thanks...
I buy fresh, steam them, then whizz em in the food processor.....then refridgerate some, freeze the rest. I also occasionally buy the little meals in jars, and heat them in the bottle warmer.
Darling listen to this!
Apparently in a study done concerning the preparation of veggies some broccoli was tested by being microwaved, steam cooked, stove cooked (boiled) and pressure cooked.
The nutrients found in the food after preparation differed between these four methods.
The Microwave removed 97% of flavonoids. Boiling 66 percent of the flavonoids seen in the to fresh raw broccoli.
Pressure cooking was at 47%
But steaming took the prize by not changing the nutrient factors at all (or minimally) when compared to raw organics.....
So steam your veggies if you want your kid to get the good stuff, otherwise there is no way they will stay in the food (the nutrients actually get transfered to the water....which you could make him drink......) unless you feed the food to him raw.
Also the frozen veggies are all blanched before being stored and this removes about 1/3 of all the good stuff...so if you microwave, or boil them afterwards you pretty much have no nutritional benefit at all....
So buy organic and steam those veggies or eat them raw
The only exception I know to this rule is potatoes, I know you cannot eat them raw and get any benefit because heat releases all of the stuff you want.....
Did you know you can live off of cooked potatoes and milk because between the two you get all of the vitamin, mineral and caloric intake you need.....but you need like 19 potatoes a day or something....
pz out!
oh and the link is where i read all the cool stuff.....