Complementary foods are the meals that infants receive as porridge in addition to milk formula. While infants are well supplied with milk formula in the first months of life, the need for nutrients and building materials increases at the beginning of the 5th month and no later than the beginning of the 7th month. Now milk formula is no longer enough as the sole food, it's time for the first porridge, the complementary food.
The supplementary diet begins with a porridge made from vegetables, potatoes and meat or fish. To get the baby used to the new food, they usually start with a few spoonfuls of vegetable puree, then gradually add potatoes and a little oil, meat and fruit juice. In the following 2 months, the milk-cereal porridge and the cereal-fruit porridge are added. The remaining meals are milk meals. At the end of the first year of life, the child is gradually switched to family nutrition.
