Many parents ask whether they can give cheese to their baby. Here are the pros and cons on giving cheese to your baby and a few suggestions and when to give baby cheese.

What are the advantages of cheese?
Cheese is known as the compression of milk, thus its nutrition is almost same as milk. It contains protein, calcium, vitamin, mineral and fat. The advantage of cheese than milk is on the numbers of its calories. Cheese contains 326 calories for every 100 gram which is 5 times than milk.

For growing baby and children, calories and protein contained in cheese are very good for intelligence and body growth. Nutritionist already said that cheese is really good for the growth of teeth and bone of children.

What are the disadvantages of cheese?
One disadvantage of cheese is it contains high rate of salt and fat. If baby consuming too much salt, it may cause hypertension disease when they become an adult. Too much salt will also cause problem for baby’s kidney to process it and may cause metabolic disorder in the future. It may also disturb your baby sleep to sleep well even though using a baby sleep positioner. High content of fat will only cause obesity problem.

Thus, can you give cheese to your baby?

When To Give Cheese To Your Baby

Important things that you should take note:

1. You can give cheese to your baby when your baby already 6 months old mean cheese is good for 1 year old baby, 8 months old baby or to be exact, at least 6 months old.
   
2. Choose soft and processed cheese (cheddar)
3. For 1 year old baby (at least), limit the take of cheese with the maximum of 3 cheeses per day
4. Baby can consume Parmesan and mozzarella cheese
5. Don’t make cheese as substitute of milk because cheese is the compression of milk, so it only contains a little of water