Moms are always scratching their heads: what should I feed my baby to ensure they get enough nutrition? Have you ever heard of color nutrition? Learn a bit about color nutrition: the wonderful taste of purple sweet potato.
You should learn more about this! Red tomatoes, yellow potatoes, green vegetables of all kinds—various colors can let your baby's eyes fully experience the richness and fun of food. Indeed, different colored foods contain different nutrients, each with its own strengths. In this issue, we share her colorful nutrition for boosting brain energy: purple foods!
White Sesame Purple Sweet Potato Cake
Nutritional Value: The most outstanding feature of purple foods is that they are rich in anthocyanins, the most potent antioxidant people have discovered to date. Purple foods can protect the liver, resist viruses, regulate the nervous system, and can make your baby happier and more focused. At the same time, they can lower the baby's intracranial pressure, nourish the brain, and improve memory. Therefore, mothers can slightly increase the intake of purple foods like purple sweet potatoes and purple eggplants in their daily diet.
Milky Purple Sweet Potato Purée
12 months+
Ingredients: 1 small purple sweet potato, 60ml formula milk, a little carrot.
Method:
1. Wash the purple sweet potato, peel, slice, and place in a steamer. Steam over medium heat for 15 minutes, then let it sit for 5 minutes. Take it out, mash it into a purée, and mix with the formula milk.
2. Peel the carrot, slice, and carve into a flower shape. Boil in water until soft, then remove.
3. Shape the purple sweet potato purée into a flower and arrange it with the carrot flower on a plate.
Warm Tip:
Purple-skinned, purple-fleshed sweet potatoes are also called black sweet potatoes. In addition to the nutritional components and characteristics of regular sweet potatoes, they are particularly rich in the trace element selenium and anthocyanins.
Cheese Purple Sweet Potato Purée
Purple Sweet Potato Sesame Balls
18 months+
Ingredients: 4 small purple sweet potatoes, 100g white sesame seeds, a little milk.
Method:
1. Wash the purple sweet potatoes, peel, slice, and place in a steamer. Steam over medium heat for 15 minutes, then let it sit for 5 minutes. Take it out and mash into a purée.
2. Mix the purple sweet potato purée with a little milk until it holds together, then form into a ball and roll into small balls.
3. Roll the formed sweet potato balls in the white sesame seeds to coat them evenly.
4. Place in a pan and fry over low heat until they float to the surface.
Warm Tip:
To make it easier for the sweet potato balls to be coated with sesame seeds, you can first roll them in milk, then roll them in sesame seeds.
Purple Sweet Potato Sesame Balls
Purple Sweet Potato and White Fungus Stew
24 months+
Ingredients: 2 small purple sweet potatoes, several white fungus mushrooms, a little rock sugar.
Method:
1. Wash, peel, and dice the purple sweet potatoes and set aside. Soak the white fungus in warm water for half an hour until fully expanded, then tear into small pieces.
2. Place the white fungus in a soup pot, add water, bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour.
3. Add the diced purple sweet potatoes and rock sugar, continue to cook for 45 minutes until the sweet potatoes are tender and the soup is thick.
Warm Tip:
White fungus must be stewed over low and slow heat to release its gelatin. If you are impatient and use high heat, the white fungus will not become soft. White fungus can enhance the liver's detoxification ability, protect the liver, and boost immunity. It is rich in natural gelatin, has the effect of moistening and clearing heat, and is rich in vitamin D to prevent calcium loss, which is beneficial for a baby's growth and development.
Purple Sweet Potato and White Fungus Buns
Purple Sweet Potato Rice Balls
24 months+
Ingredients: 2 small purple sweet potatoes, a little rice, several sheets of nori, a little condensed milk.
Method:
1. Wash the purple sweet potatoes, peel, and dice. Place in a steamer and steam over medium heat for 15 minutes, then keep the lid on for another 5 minutes. Remove.
2. Mix a little condensed milk into the rice.
3. Place a sheet of nori on plastic wrap, add a scoop of rice, and top with the diced purple sweet potato.
4. Roll up the nori, and a beautiful rice ball is ready.
Warm Tip:
1. Warm rice is a bit stickier, making it easier to shape into rice balls.
2. You can also mix the condensed milk directly into the purple sweet potato.
Shrimp and Purple Sweet Potato Rice Balls