Pregnant women are advised to take folic acid supplements during the first trimester, and NHS Healthy Start vitamins provide the right amount of folic acid along with vitamin D and vitamin C.
If you want to eat these foods, check on the label to see if they need to be cooked. Freezing these meats at home for four days before eating them can also lower the risk of contamination. Cold cooked meats, such as roast ham, are safe to eat.
Midwives used to advise pregnant women to avoid nuts. Unsalted nuts can be a handy nutritious snack, too. More details about what foods are safe to eat, and information about eggs, liver and supplements can be found at NHS online. Do you have any tips or advice for eating during pregnancy? All health content on bbcgoodfood. If you have any concerns about your general health, you should contact your local health care provider. As long as these are all cooked, these are fine to eat.
Raw shellfish can contain harmful bacteria and viruses, carrying a higher risk of food poisoning so should be avoided during pregnancy.
This means they are safe for you to eat. There are lots of great benefits to including cooked prawns in your diet as they include a lot of B vitamins which are needed for energy and to help support the nervous system. They also contain calcium and iron, both of which are involved in healthy blood formation and clotting.
For certain types of fish though there are recommendations about how much of it you should be eating. Cured meats are not cooked, so they may have parasites in them that cause toxoplasmosis.
Liver and liver products have lots of vitamin A in them. This can be harmful to an unborn baby. Try to eat British Lion eggs eggs with a lion stamp on them because they are less likely to have salmonella in them.
Salmonella is unlikely to harm your unborn baby, but you could get food poisoning. If you eat eggs that are not British Lion, or not from hens, make sure the whites and yolks are cooked thoroughly. You can have 2 tuna steaks, or 4 medium-size cans of fish, as well as 2 portions of oily fish. You should limit tuna because it has more mercury in it than other fish.
If you eat too much mercury, it can be harmful to your unborn baby. You should limit oily fish because they can have pollutants such as dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls in them. If you eat too much of these, they can be harmful to your unborn baby. Freezing kills the worms and makes raw fish safe to eat.
Cooking will also kill them. Certain farmed fish destined to be eaten raw in dishes like sushi, such as farmed salmon, no longer need to be frozen beforehand.
This is because farmed fish are very unlikely to contain parasitic worms as a result of the rearing methods used. Lots of the sushi sold in shops is not made at the shop. This type of sushi should be fine to eat — if a shop or restaurant buys in ready-made sushi, the raw fish used to make it will have been subject to an appropriate freezing treatment.
If you're in any doubt, you might want to avoid eating the kinds of sushi that contain raw fish, such as tuna.
The safest way to enjoy sushi is to choose the fully cooked or vegetarian varieties, which can include:. If a shop or restaurant makes its own sushi on the premises, it must still be frozen first before being served. If you're concerned, ask the staff. You can eat peanuts or food containing peanuts such as peanut butter during pregnancy, unless you are allergic to them, or a health professional advises you not to.
You may have heard that peanuts should be avoided during pregnancy. This is because the government previously advised women to avoid eating peanuts if there was a history of allergy such as asthma , eczema , hay fever and food allergy in their child's immediate family. This advice has now been changed, because the latest research has shown no clear evidence that eating peanuts during pregnancy affects the chances of your baby developing a peanut allergy. Stick to pasteurised or ultra-heat treated UHT milk — which is sometimes called long-life milk.
If only raw unpasteurised milk is available, boil it first. Don't drink unpasteurised goats' or sheep's milk, or eat foods made from them, such as soft goats' cheese. All types of yoghurt, including bio, live and low-fat, are fine. Just check that any homemade yoghurt is made with pasteurised milk and if not, avoid it. Soft ice creams should be fine to eat when you're pregnant, as they are processed products made with pasteurised milk and eggs, so any risk of salmonella food poisoning has been eliminated.
High levels of caffeine can result in babies having a low birth weight, which can increase the risk of health problems in later life. Too much caffeine can also cause miscarriage. Caffeine is naturally found in lots of foods, such as coffee, tea including green tea and chocolate, and is added to some soft drinks and energy drinks.
Some cold and flu remedies also contain caffeine. Talk to your midwife, doctor or pharmacist before taking these remedies.
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