Contents:
- Medical Video: Children's Nutrition : How to Get a Child to Eat Healthy Foods
- Alternative for fruits
- Alternative to meat
- Alternative to milk
- Alternative for vegetables
- Alternative whole wheat bread
Medical Video: Children's Nutrition : How to Get a Child to Eat Healthy Foods
When your child doesn't want or can't eat certain foods, don't worry, because there are some substitutes for these foods that can satisfy your child's stomach.
Alternative for fruits
If your child cannot eat fresh fruits, try dried fruits such as apricots, pears, raisins, cherries, mangoes, pineapples, and bananas, and gradually introduce your child to fresh fruits. Make puree sauce from fresh or frozen fruits for yogurt and slowly introduce the pieces from the whole fruit. Serve applesauce instead of whole fruit. If your child rejects citrus fruits (citrus-jerukan), offer another source of vitamin C (for example strawberries, melons, vitamin C juice, broccoli and other cabbage, watermelon, potatoes). Try combining fruits like blueberries, apple slices, and bananas in muffins, bread, and waffle dough.
Alternative to meat
Fish, poultry, eggs, tofu, legumes (beans, chickpeas, legumes), wheat and peanut butter. Use a mixture of vegetables that have been chopped as an alternative to minced meat or chicken to make pasta sauce, fill the taco. Bread, biscuits and pasta are made with iron fortification flour.
Alternative to milk
Cheese, yogurt and other dairy products are made with cow's, goat's or sheep's milk. Soy milk, almond milk and rice milk can replace milk and cheese (ask your pediatrician if your child needs to use vitamin B12 and D supplements); canned fish with bones (salmon, sardines, vultures) for calcium and vitamin D. Vegetables which are good sources of calcium are broccoli. Sun exposure can replace vitamin D intake.
Alternative for vegetables
If your child rejects leafy green vegetables, try dark yellow and orange vegetables (carrots, pumpkin, sweet potatoes) for vitamin A and folic acid, fruits and fruit juices for vitamin C, and also folic acid. A child who refuses cooked vegetables may prefer raw vegetable sticks and salads. Offer low-salt vegetable juice instead of fruit juice. Children who do not like plain vegetables may prefer stir-fried vegetables. Make pasta and taco sauce with vegetables that are chopped to replace or add to the meat
Alternative whole wheat bread
High fibrous white bread; whole wheat and rye biscuits; whole wheat pasta.
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