Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-05-14 | Page 10 | Your Baby and Mine

Your Yon Eaby Anti And nd Mine in By Myrtlo Meyer Eldred ACID ORANGE JUICE I Must all aU children have orange Juice c If If the baby dislikes It and spits i It out how liow may one manage to make him take It If JC the orange Is rather sour may soda be added Mothers frequently ask me those q questions Orange juice I Is Imperative In the diet of the bottle baby It furnishes the vitamin C elem element clement nt which Is partially par par- or entirely destroyed when milk mile Is pasteurized or 01 boiled and Is ab absent absent absent ab- ab sent in the canned milks Orange Juice Is not not- Imperative In the nursing baby's diet for tor the first two to months but after that It Is l. an extremely de desirable desirable desirable de- de addition It contains not only vitamins but minerals which are arc valuable valuable valuable val val- aids to a a. balanced diet MAKE MAK FIRST DOSE SMALL One rC reason why the small baby makes a wry v face and spits spit out his liLt orange Juice Is because his mother in insists in- in si that he take all he will ever need the very ery first time Instead of one small spoonful in enough water to mask the new taste she conscientiously conscientiously gives him one or two ounces of juice and expects that will he will re receive receive receive re- re it with gusto Most babl babies dislike new tastes They are not yet epicureans on the hunt for new flavors They like their nice warm bland sweet milk viewIng viewing view view- ing lag anything different with suspicion and Instantly rejecting It The wary mother keeps this in mind making king the first taste of orange Juice hardly different from his drink of water then little by little Increasing the amount of orange Juice until baby Is fairly lapping It upI upI up I hI noticed a a. discussion of orange Juice in your department and wanted to tell you how I managed it Mrs C. C C. C contributes I 1 added a a. pinch of or baking soda to two tablespoons of orange juice mixed with t two o tablespoons tablespoons table table- spoons of water Until I learned this wrinkle I had a bad half hour each morning I hope you rou will pardon my seeming presumption In offering this but I have gleaned Cleaned so EO much from your our column that I thought J I might repay It in part PARTIAL NEUTRALIZATION O. O K I am happy to have ha your tion My only fear In printing this very very valuable contribution Is that thai mothers may overdo that pinch There is some danger in that After all we give orange Juice for fora a purpose and that tha t purpose Is to furnish furnish furnish fur fur- nish the baby with this additional vitamin C. C That is the chief role played by orange juice in the diet its contribution of minerals being a secondary secondary sec see part It Is believed that complete complete com corn neutralization of the thc acid of orange Juice would have a a. detrimental tal effect on the vitamin Vitamins are comparatively stable in an acid medium but less so as the neutralization tion point is reached It is safe though to partially neutralize the acid and to feed the orange Juice Immediately immediately immediately im im- Im- Im mediately after atter adding the thc soda At Atthe Atthe Atthe the moment my morning orange Juice is so deliciously sweet that I doubt If it the amat amateur ur orange juice drinker could object to it