Is olive oil suitable for babies like breast milk?

As we all know, people consume edible oil every day. For children, healthy cooking oil is essential. Olive oil is known as the gold on the table, which makes many young parents choose it as an essential item for every meal without hesitation. In particular, the recent online report that "the proportion of basic fatty acids in olive oil is similar to that in breast milk, which is most suitable for infants" has attracted people's attention. So, is this really the case?

Edible oil (source: Oriental IC)

Lu Ruizhen, a nutritionist at Shanghai Songjiang Central Hospital, said in an interview with Xinmin Evening News that, first of all, olive oil is vegetable oil and contains no cholesterol, but infants have a great demand for cholesterol, and the cholesterol content in breast milk ranges from 1 15 mg/L to150mg/L. Secondly, according to the analysis results of breast milk all over the world, the saturated fat in breast milk is about. From this point of view, the fat content in breast milk is unique. Olive oil is mainly composed of oleic acid, which is far from the fat in breast milk and does not meet the nutritional needs of infants. In addition, olive oil is not only unsuitable for baby's development, but also an inferior baby food.

Fan Zhihong, an associate professor at the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, told the Beijing Evening News that olive oil is actually one of the common vegetable oils suitable for human consumption. As for its nutritional value, it is even more impossible to compare with breast milk. "From a health point of view, infants and young children should not eat vegetables fried with edible oil, whether it is olive oil or other vegetable oils."

So, how should children eat cooking oil? Wu Guangchi, a researcher at the Children's Nutrition Research Office of the Capital Institute of Pediatrics, said in an interview with the Science and Technology Daily reporter that babies born within 6 months do not need to eat edible oil; Babies from 6 months to 1 year can add a small amount of cooking oil to the complementary food; The baby's physical development and the development of brain and nerve need the participation of fatty acids. Therefore, fruit oil, tea oil, olive oil and soybean oil are all good sources of unsaturated fatty acids, but the dosage should not be too much; When the baby 1 ~3 years old, he can basically eat all the food, and then he can consume 20 ~25 grams of edible oil every day; The daily intake of edible oil can be increased to 25-30 grams for babies aged 3-6. In addition, the primary condition for a baby's healthy growth is comprehensive nutrition. Therefore, when cooking for your baby, you must choose a variety of edible oils instead, which will help him get comprehensive fatty acids. (Zhao Peng)

This paper was scientifically proofread by Ruan, director of the business department of Kexin Food and Nutrition Information Exchange Center.