Contents:
- Medical Video: Choosing the Best Cereal - Diabetes Center for Children at CHOP
- Does cereal include a healthy children's breakfast menu?
- Are there other easy and practical children's breakfast menu choices?
Medical Video: Choosing the Best Cereal - Diabetes Center for Children at CHOP
Practical and fast, making cereal a choice of children's breakfast menu. Maybe you don't have much time in the morning to prepare your baby's breakfast, finally the choice falls on cereal. Parents believe that cereal for children's breakfasts is a healthy choice. However, is that true? See the facts here.
Does cereal include a healthy children's breakfast menu?
Breakfast cereal is considered a healthy food. Actually this is not entirely wrong.
Cereals made from wheat seeds are processed into flour and then cooked. Then the cereal goes through the extrusion process, then bakes and adds other ingredients such as sugar. Then the cereal mixture is compacted so that it is easily formed into interesting and dried pieces.
Most cereals sold today contain very high sugar. Can you imagine how much sugar your child consumes every morning that makes a child's blood sugar soar.
As soon as sugar begins to decline within a few hours as more and more little activity, the body also gives a reaction to ask for more sugar consumption.
In addition, there are usually inscriptions in cereal packagingwhole grain which means that all cereals come from whole wheat. But actually not, because the wheat has been processed to become cereal, so the benefits of whole wheat are only a few.
Not a few also cereal products that actually contain quite a lot of artificial coloring, flavoring, to high sugar levels. Even so, it's not bad and unhealthy cereal, but always relying on this breakfast menu for children for practical reasons is certainly not wise.
Are there other easy and practical children's breakfast menu choices?
There are many good choices of practical and fast children's breakfast menus. However, if you really want to keep choosing cereal as a children's breakfast menu, then you have to pay attention to the composition in it.
You still have to pay attention to the nutritional content found in cereal packaging. A good rule of thumb is to read the first three ingredients because that is the most contained in the product.
In addition, you should avoid colorful cereals produced from artificial dyes that can have a health impact on children, some studies link coloring to foods with ADHD and hyperactivity in children.
If you want to mix cereal with milk, you should use regular milk, not sweetened condensed milk. Because, sweetened condensed milk has been given a considerable amount of sugar.
A practical and fast alternative to children's breakfast is oatmeal. This is easy to serve and your children can choose and adjust the desired toping.
If oatmeal isn't the breakfast your child wants, you can also try healthy granola with almond milk and bananas or strawberries, or both.
If your kids still prefer cereal, try looking for brands of cereals that contain essential nutrients to meet your children's needs, and consume according to the recommended dosage. Or you can also pair cereals with fresh smoothies that will enhance your child's breakfast taste.
