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Consuming Green Tea During Breastfeeding
Rich in nutrients and antioxidants, a cup of green tea can do a world of good to your body. However, when you’re lactating, everything that you eat or drink gets transferred to your baby via breast milk. In this article, we explain whether it’s safe to consume green tea during breastfeeding.
Is It Safe to Drink Green Tea When You’re Breastfeeding?
Breastmilk is the only source of nutrition for your child for the first six months. So, a mom’s diet should provide the necessary nutrients and be devoid of side effects.
Green tea doesn’t have any negative effects on babies, when consumed in a limited quantity. In fact, green tea contains essential nutrients such as Vitamin B, folate acid, manganese, magnesium and other antioxidants which help in nourishing the baby and the mother alike. That said, the caffeine content in green tea can adversely affect some infants.
You can safely consume plain green tea that has a low amount of caffeine. Avoid teas that contain herbs.
How Much Green Tea Can You Drink While Breastfeeding?
Green tea is rich in nutrients that energise and refresh the body. However, since it also contains caffeine, green tea shouldn’t be consumed in excess.
Two cups per day of green tea, with each cup being around 230ml is considered safe for lactating women. The upper limit for daily caffeine consumption is 300mg and a cup of green tea has close to 29mg of the same. A higher quantity of green tea can be consumed in cases where there is no other source of caffeine intake during the day.
Tips
Keep a tab on your daily caffeine consumption. Coffee, fizzy drinks and chocolate contain caffeine, too.
Avoid consumption of green tea with iron-rich foods such as leafy vegetables.
Side Effects of Green Tea on Lactating Mothers
There is no scientific backing to prove that green tea has any direct side effects for breastfeeding mothers. Only 1% of the total caffeine consumption enters your breast milk. Unless consumed in excess quantities, green tea does not have any side effect on the mother.
Does Green Tea Reduce Breast Milk?
No studies prove that green tea reduces or stops breast milk. But to be on the safe side, wait for at least three hours after a meal to consume green tea.
What Happens If Green Tea Is Consumed in Excess?
When it exceeds the daily prescribed limit, green tea can lead to the following symptoms in babies:
Frequent bowel movements
Diarrhoea
Disturbed sleep and difficulty in falling asleep
Irritability and fussiness
Infantile colic
You should look out for these symptoms even if you don’t exceed the daily caffeine limit.
Is Decaf Green Tea Safe?
Decaffeinated green tea isn’t entirely devoid of caffeine; it contains 2-5 mg of caffeine per 237 ml cup of green tea. As every tea maker has different standards of caffeine elimination, read the product label before buying.
Are Green Tea Pills A Good Option?
Not really. With green tea pills, you may accidentally consume more caffeine every day than the prescribed limits. This may affect your baby.
Alternatives to Green Tea
If you want to avoid the consumption of caffeine while breastfeeding, you can go for these beverages:
White tea
Chamomile tea
Ginger tea
Dandelion tea
Peppermint tea
Green tea has a lot of health benefits. If consumed within prescribed limits, it isn’t detrimental to the mother’s or baby’s health.
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Caribbean Rice Hedgehogs
This rice is a flavorful change from the typical 'rice and dal' regime. Made with the combination of coconut milk and pineapple juice, this scrumptious dish would simply tantalize the taste buds of your little one. To add to the piquancy, a hint of butter and coriander is added. Even if after all this your kid refuses to down it, don’t fret! Just arrange the dish in a way that resisting will be too difficult a task for him. Remember Mommy, when you want your kid to eat food they he has otherwise given a thumbs down to, making things visually impressive is the key.
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
4 People
15-20 Minutes
10-15 Minutes
Ingredients
2 cups basmati rice, cooked
3/4 cup pineapple cubes (optional)
1/2 cup coconut milk
50 ml pineapple juice
1 tbsp coriander, finely chopped
1 tsp fresh red chillies, finely chopped (optional)
1 tsp butter
½ tsp jeera
salt to taste
Method
Step 1
In a bowl, combine rice, coconut milk, pineapple juice, finely chopped coriander and red chillies. Mix all these ingredients well and keep aside.
Step 2
In a heavy-bottom pan, add butter and cumin seeds. After the seeds crackle, add the rice mixture and salt.
Step 3
Let the mixture simmer on medium heat for 2-3 minutes. Keep stirring occasionally.
Step 4
After the mixture turns a little dry, remove from heat.
Step 5
Let the rice cool down a bit, so that giving shapes will become easy.
Step 6
Decorate a plate with lettuce leaves. Take a small amount of rice and place it on the plate.
Step 7
Give the mound an oval shape, and make one end tapering.
Step 8
Place another mound of rice on the tapering end. This will become the head of the hedgehog.
Step 9
Push in two cloves for the eyes and one black pepper for the nose.
Step 10
You can decorate the plate with cut pineapple pieces, or in any way you wish to do it.
Nutritional Information
Calories
415 K cal
Proteins
7.4 g
Total Fat
7.8 g
Total Carbohydrates
77.4 g
Cholesterol
8 mg
Sodium
10 mg
Potassium
208 mg
Tip: If you making it for small kids, you can let go the addition of red chillies. Instead add 2-3 tbsp sugar, it will taste even better. Read more
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Sugar free Kaju katli
Unlike the traditional kaju katli, this no sugar version is just mildly sweet because of milk sugar- lactose. It is flavored with rose petals and rose water. Rose petals and rose water impart thats sweet fragrance to this kaju katli. All those who love to have sweets but feel guilty about it, do not feel guilty any more. This lower calorie kaju katli, will reduce your calorie load for sure. Diabetics can also take a piece or two of this and feel happy of not adding up to your glucose levels.
Though you may find this kaju katli darker than the original one, it still has a great cashew taste.
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
10 People
10 Minutes
10 Minutes
Ingredients
4/5 cups broken cashew nuts
3/4 cup milk powder
2 tbsp (tablespoons) rose water
1/4 cup full fat milk
1 tbsp or more dried rose petals
Method
Step 1
Powder the cashew nuts finely, but be careful, not to churn it into oily cashew butter.
Step 2
Add the milk powder, milk and a tbsp of rose water in a microwave safe glass bowl.
Step 3
Mix everything well till the milk powder dissolves and allows a sticky paste to be formed.
Step 4
Now microwave for one and half minutes, the paste will fluff up in the microwave.
Step 5
Take out and mix well again with a spoon. Repeat the procedure 3-4 times till the paste forms a ball.
Step 6
Add the rose petals in last, mix well and let it cool. It becomes very oily as the fats separate.
Step 7
Fold parchment paper like a book.
Step 8
Place the ball of cashew paste on one half of the parchment and cover with the other half.
Step 9
Roll out with the help of a rolling pin.
Step 10
Roll out the fudge to fill in the corners as well. The thickness should be the same all over.
Step 11
Lift the fudge along with the parchment paper casing.
Step 12
Place it on an appropriately sized tray and refrigerate till cold.
Step 13
Cut into squares or diamonds using a scale.
Step 14
Decorate in a plate and serve.
Nutritional Information
Calories
45
Sodium
1 mg
Total Fat
3 g
Potassium
0 mg
Saturated
1 g
Total Carbs
4 g
Polyunsaturated
1 g
Dietary Fiber
0 g
Monounsaturated
2 g
Sugars
3 g
Trans
0 g
Protein
1 g
Cholesterol
0 mg
Vitamin A
0%
Calcium
0%
Vitamin C
0%
Iron
3%
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Gujarati Khatta Dhokla
This dish deserves to be known as the king of Gujarati cuisine, given its importance in Gujarati households. Khatta dhokla gets its name from the fact that it's made by souring rice and lentil with sour curd. If you are planning to prepare khatta dhokla, you have to plan a day in advance, as proper fermentation is required for the sourness to develop. In terms of taste, this traditional Kathiyawadi cousin of the ’khaman dhokla’ has its own true blue fan following.
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
8 People
30-35 Minutes (overnight soaking)
40-45 Minutes
Ingredients
300 g rice, uncooked
150 g urad dal, uncooked
75 g cup curd
6 to 8 green chillies, ground
1 tbsp ginger, grated
¾ tsp soda bi-carb
3 tbsp oil
¼ tsp asafoetida
Salt to taste
For Garnishing
1 tbsp oil
½ tsp cumin seeds
½ tsp mustard seeds
½ tsp sesame seeds
1 tbsp coriander, chopped
Method
Step 1
Soak rice and urad dal separately overnight. Next day, blend with curd and hot water in a mixer to form a smooth paste.
Step 2
Leave to ferment for at least 6 to 7 hours or overnight.
Step 3
Next, make a paste of the green chillies and ginger.
Step 4
Add to the batter soda bi-carbonate, oil, asafoetida, green chilli paste and salt. Mix well.
Step 5
Grease a steel thali with a little oil (flat metal plate with low rim) and pour enough batter so as to fill half the height of the thali.
Step 6
Sprinkle a little ground pepper on top.
Step 7
Steam for about 10 minutes in a cooker without the whistle.
For Garnishing
Step 1
In a small vessel, pour oil. Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, sesame seeds and curry leaves. Once the cumin and mustard seeds start popping, remove from flame and pour this mixture on the steamed dhoklas and sprinkle chopped coriander.
Step 2
Cut into pieces and serve with green chutney.
Nutritional Information
Calories
960 Kcal
Proteins
4 .4 g
Fat
45.8 g
Carbohydrates
92.2 g
Cholesterol
11 mg
Sodium
449 mg
Potassium
1507 mg
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