infant to become familiar with the foods before trying to give another • Give a very small amounts of any new food at the beginning, for example, one teaspoon full or less. • At first strained fruits, vegetables and cereals are given. • Variety in choice of food is important • If, after several trials, the baby has an acute dislike for a particular food, omit that item for a week or two and then try again. • Food should be given between breast feeds.
• Give freshly prepared food • By one year, the infant can be given family diet, modified, in small quantities but at frequent intervals in addition to milk. The best indication of adequacy of the diet is the growth pattern of the child. . .
Low cost supplementary foods Indian mothers wean infant into the traditional adult diet because of their ignorance of low cost weaning foods and also because of in capacity to buy expensive commercial foods. Name of the product Composition Indian multipurpose food (C F T R I) Low fat groundnut flour and Bengal gram flour ( ) fortified with vitamins A and D, B1 B2 and calcium carbonate. Contains percent protein. Malt food (C F T R I) Cereal malt, low fat groundnut flour and roasted Bengal gram flour ( ) fortified with vitamins and calcium salts.
Contains percent protein. Supplementary food (NIN) Roasted wheat flour, green gram flour, groundnut, sugar or jiggery.( : ). Contains . percent protein.
Win food (Gandhigram Rural Institute) Pearl millet, green gram dal, groundnut flour and jaggery. ( : ). Contains percent proteins. Amutham Rice flour, ragi flour, Bengal gram flour, sesame flour, groundnut flour and jaggery.
( : ). Contains percent proteins. Poshak Cereal (wheat, maize, rice or jowar) pulse (chana dhal or green gram dhal) and oil seed (groundnut) and jaggery. ( : : : ).
Kerala Indegenous Food. (KIF) Tapioca, Bulgar wheat and groundnut. ( ). Table .
Low cost supplementary foods UNIT. - - Nutrition in pregnancy, lactation and infancy . . Foods to omit Concentrated sweets, including baby food “desserts”, have no place in an infant’s diet.