Nutritious food for pregnant mothers during Tet

On Tet holiday, mothers should not ignore the following foods to have the best health.

Tet is an occasion for people to meet, greet and congratulate each other. Accordingly, every family prepares a lot of delicious and beautiful food to celebrate Tet and treat friends. For pregnant women, eating a lot is not always good, eating a lot is not healthy. So what are the nutritious foods that pregnant women should eat during Tet? Let's name the delicious dishes that are good for both mother and baby in the womb.

Chicken

According to nutritionists, in addition to albumin and fat, chicken meat also contains vitamins A, B1, B2, C, E, acids, calcium, phosphorus, and iron. This is a high-quality food that is easily absorbed and digested by pregnant mothers.

Chicken is a brain food that reduces stress. The protein and amino acid complex in chicken have a positive effect on the brain, improving mood, reducing anxiety and stress, and improving blood pressure and heart rate.

Egg

Chicken eggs are one of the very good nutritional foods for pregnant women, good for the nervous system and body development, improve memory, help keep the mind alert, promote liver cell regeneration.

Eggs contain nutrients such as protein and choline, which are important for fetal brain development and reduce the risk of neural tube defects, such as spina bifida. However, to get these benefits, pregnant women should eat eggs regularly, 3-4 eggs/week, and eat both the yolk and the white because choline is found in egg yolks.

Beef

Pregnant women need more protein during pregnancy (about 25 grams more per day) to help the fetus develop and the mother stay healthy. In addition, pregnant women also need to supplement iron. Not providing enough of this mineral can reduce the baby's development and increase the risk of premature birth and low birth weight.

Mothers also know that iron is very important for pregnant women to form blood cells to prevent anemia. During pregnancy, the amount of blood in the body increases (about 27mg/day), so pregnant women need to add lean meat to each daily meal.

In addition, beef is also a rich source of vitamin B6, which helps with tissue and brain development in the baby and reduces morning sickness in the mother; vitamin B12 helps maintain healthy nerves.

Seafood

Research shows that fish containing high levels of mercury can be harmful to both mother and fetus. Farmed fish contaminated with certain toxins and PCBs - a carcinogen - are not good for pregnant women. Pregnant women can eat salmon, sea bass, shrimp, catfish, cod, sardines, etc.

Crabs, clams, mussels, oysters, shrimp, etc. are also suitable for pregnant women. These seafoods have negligible mercury content. Pregnant women should carefully process these seafoods before eating to avoid stomachaches and diarrhea during Tet.

Broccoli

Helps provide fiber, lutein, zinc, and vitamin A to the body. In addition, broccoli contains calcium, vitamin C, and folate (a natural form of folic acid), which helps prevent birth defects.

Celery

This vegetable is effective in preventing preeclampsia. Celery contains many rich nutrients such as carotene, vitamin C, nicotinic acid, mannite, especially some nutrients in the leaves are more abundant than in the stem, which has the effect of clearing heat, cooling the blood, calming the brain, diuretic, sedative and reducing blood pressure. Pregnant women with high blood pressure who regularly eat celery can help reduce blood pressure and prevent preeclampsia.

Potatoes, sweet potato

Sweet potatoes and sweet potato leaves contain a lot of vitamin B6, which helps reduce nausea for pregnant women in the early stages of pregnancy who often suffer from morning sickness, nausea or vomiting, poor appetite or loss of appetite. Sweet potatoes are also a food that prevents high blood pressure during pregnancy.

Pumpkin

Helps prevent and treat high blood pressure and edema in pregnant women. The nutrients in pumpkin plants and fruits are very rich. Pregnant women eating pumpkin vegetables, fruits, or flowers can not only promote the development of fetal nerve cells and enhance brain cell activity, but can also prevent and treat high blood pressure and edema during pregnancy, promote blood clotting, and prevent excessive bleeding after giving birth.

Apple

Apples contain rich nutrients, especially micronutrients, vitamins, and fruit acids. In addition, apples also contain potassium and antioxidants that help prevent cancer and aging in humans. The amount of calcium in apples is also higher than in other fruits, helping to neutralize excess salt in the body.

Apples not only have a pleasant aroma and sweet and sour taste, but are also an essential ingredient for the formation of bones and teeth for the fetus. Apples also help pregnant women prevent osteoporosis and constipation. In addition, the aroma of apples also has a calming effect on pregnant women.

Plum

Grapes are one of the fruits that are both delicious and healthy. They contain a lot of potassium and sodium, phosphorus, calcium, and iron. Grapes even help the body a lot in treating kidney disease, circulatory disorders, and liver.

Grapes also activate the digestive tract, act as a diuretic and mild laxative, improve digestion. During pregnancy, if pregnant women eat fresh grapes and raisins, they can significantly improve constipation, high blood pressure, and kidney failure.

Walnut

Among the most useful nuts for pregnant women, walnuts are the most significant. They contain a lot of vitamin C, more than a lemon or a grape.

Walnuts help strengthen muscles during pregnancy, reducing fatigue for mothers during pregnancy. In addition, walnuts also help strengthen the immune system thanks to their antibacterial effects.

During the last three months of pregnancy eating walnuts enhances lactogenic synthesis to help prepare expectant mothers for breastfeeding.

Grapefruit

Eating fresh grapefruit or drinking the juice through the juicing process is a way to supplement nutrients that are very good for pregnant women's health. Grapefruit is a fruit that is sour, sweet, cool, and contains many beneficial nutrients.

Grapefruit contains a lot of vitamin C, B, beta carotene, calcium, protein, iron, etc. In addition to providing nutrients to pregnant women's bodies, quenching thirst, and being a snack, grapefruit also has beauty benefits, making the skin rosy, hair smooth, and less hair loss (if you want better results, in addition to eating, you should boil grapefruit peel to get water to wash your hair).

Orange

Oranges are one of the fruits that contain a lot of vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium and fiber... very nutritious for pregnant women. Limonoids in orange juice help prevent cancer and have detoxifying and diuretic effects.

Orange juice contains a lot of calcium and vitamins. Pregnant women who regularly drink orange juice and grapefruit juice can help prevent osteoporosis and other diseases.

Calcium is concentrated in orange peels. To maximize the calcium in orange peels, pregnant women can eat orange peels with orange juice or orange slices. Thus, oranges are not only good for the mother but also good for the fetus.

Because fresh orange juice is rich in calcium, folic acid, and potassium, it is very good for regulating and stabilizing blood pressure, so it is quite safe for pregnant women with high blood pressure. However, pregnant women with digestive disorders should not eat a lot of oranges.

According to Alobacsi.vn