React Native - RNPickerSelect - Empty value before the first dropdown item

When I user RNPickerSelect I get my items in the dropdown, but right before the first one there is an empty value which I want to remove. I just want the first item to be selected automatically. Does anyone know how to solve this?

The interface I use to declare the props and reuse them in the parent component

interface AutoSuggestProps {      types: IRequest[];      onSelect: (item: string) => void;      disabled: boolean;      placeholderLabel: string;      title: string;      dropdownValue: string;      setDropDownValue: (val: string) => void;    }  

Here I am creating a component which uses the React Native component

 export const DropdownList = ({      currencyType,      onSelect,      disabled,      placeholderLabel,      title,      dropdownValue,      setDropDownValue,    }: AutoSuggestProps): JSX.Element => {      return (<View>

I have used it like this because it was only way I could get at least the first item. But the problem is on top of the first item, there is an empty element that is selectable

<RNPickerSelect    disabled={false}    value={dropdownValue}    onValueChange={el => {      setDropdownValue(el);      onSelect(el);    }}

If I use the placeholder like this placeholder: {{value: dropdownvalue, label: dropdownvalue}} , a label 'Select item is printed' which I don't want.

  placeholder={{}}    items={types}    useNativeAndroidPickerStyle={false}    Icon={() => {      return <DropdownArrowSVG_noFill width={(width + height) / 50} height={(width + height) / 50} fill={dropdownColor} />;    }}  /></View>)})