Can pizza be breastfed?

Pizza is one of many people's favorite treats. But nursing mothers often wonder how harmless she will be for the baby. After all, its composition includes a large number of various ingredients that may not always be useful for the child's body.

The composition of pizza and its effect on children

1. Pizza contains many ingredients, one of which is mushrooms. They are considered junk food for breastfeeding mothers. During the first six months with breastfeeding, it is recommended to completely refuse to eat mushrooms. This is due to the fact that the child has a poorly developed enzymatic system. Mushrooms themselves are a rather heavy product for the body. Despite the fact that they contain many useful elements, it is difficult for the body to absorb such food. In addition, mushrooms tend to accumulate a variety of toxic substances.
2. Despite all of the above, periodic use of mushrooms is allowed during breastfeeding. But for this it is recommended to choose mushrooms, oyster mushrooms and champignons, which are relatively easily absorbed by the body. In this case, the mushrooms themselves must be produced on specialized farms. Compared with forest counterparts, they will cause much less harm, so they are sometimes allowed to be used by nursing mothers.
3. Another important ingredient in pizza is cheese. For mothers who breastfeed their babies, this product will be very useful, as it contains calcium. But you should choose only hard varieties of cheeses. If the cheese is processed or cooked with mold, then you should not eat it. From these cheeses, a child may develop large amounts of gas.
4. Often sausage is added to pizza. It is worth remembering that this product does not consist of pure meat. A large number of different chemical ingredients are added to it, from dyes and flavors to harmful fats. Such a product can cause serious harm not only to the child, but also to his mother.
5. The main ingredient in pizza is considered a tomato. This is a very useful product, which includes many useful elements and vitamins. In addition, it has a number of useful properties, for example, helps with depression and acts as an antioxidant. But from the disadvantages of tomatoes, it is worth highlighting that they can cause allergic reactions. Therefore, when breastfeeding, you should carefully eat tomatoes. It is also recommended that you first include in your diet a moderate amount of yellow tomato varieties. If the child does not have allergic reactions, then only then you can try red varieties.
6. Onion is added to the composition of pizza to improve its palatability. This gift of nature includes a huge amount of vitamins and nutrients, which positively affects the state of the body. In addition, it has an antiseptic effect. But many nursing mothers are of the opinion that with the addition of onions and garlic to the diet, the taste of milk and its smell greatly deteriorate. But in practice, young children with great pleasure absorb such milk, so do not be afraid to eat onions. This is especially true for women with poor levels of lactation. When onions are added to your diet, lactation will improve significantly.
7. When studying the composition of pizza, one cannot ignore the dough from which it is made. Usually this dough is made using baker's yeast.This yeast is a mixture of several tens of various chemicals that are designed to loosen the dough. Therefore, eating such a pizza threatens to get many unwanted chemical elements into the child's body.

How to make harmless and delicious pizza

Based on the above composition, we can safely say that pizza made in pizzerias should not be used by mothers while breastfeeding. But you can make pizza at home, which will be completely harmless to the child, but at the same time, it will be tasty and fragrant.

Before making pizza, you need to make tomato paste. Yellow varieties of tomatoes are suitable for her. This paste is smeared on the base of the pizza before baking. Then you should put the filling on it. As a filling, champignons, boiled chicken or turkey meat, small segments of yellow tomatoes are used. You should also chop onions in the form of half rings and add parsley.

The temperature in the oven is set at 220 degrees. Bake pizza for 15 minutes. After that, you need to sprinkle it on top with pieces of cheese (necessarily a hard variety), and then continue baking for another 7 minutes.

How to use pizza while breastfeeding

A few days before the planned preparation of pizza at home, it is recommended to try all the ingredients separately and look at the reaction of the child. Particular attention should be paid to the selection of tomatoes and mushrooms.

If a child doesn’t have any allergic reactions when eating these ingredients, he doesn’t get sick, and he looks calm and satisfied, then you can make pizza according to the above recipe. Otherwise, you need to replace the mushrooms with some other ingredient. A suitable replacement option is broccoli.

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