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- Medical Video: Christmas Foods | American Kids Try Food from Around the World - Ep 10 | Kids Try | Cut
- Milk
- Apple
- Peanut butter/peanut butter
- Yogurt
- Tuna fish
- Breakfast cereal
- Egg
- Vegetables
- Oatmeal
- Sunflower seed
Medical Video: Christmas Foods | American Kids Try Food from Around the World - Ep 10 | Kids Try | Cut
Parents must be more observant in choosing foods that are suitable for child development, because not all foods are suitable or good and can be consumed by children. It's best to teach your child as early as possible to eat high-fiber foods, low in fat and rich in calcium, iron, and other vitamins and minerals, rather than familiarizing children with high-calorie and fatty foods. The following are the 10 best foods that you can serve for your child during their growing years:
Milk
Usually a child playgroup and kindergartens really like milk, but, after they grow up, many children begin to reduce milk consumption. This might not be because they no longer like milk, but because of the many choices of other drinks that they think are better, such as soda, fruit syrup and ready-to-drink fruit juices available in your home.
Apple
Like other fruits, apples are a good snack. Apples contain a lot of fruit juice, it tastes sweet (although some varieties taste sour), is rich in vitamin C, and has low calories (around 90 calories for medium apples). Fresh whole apples have 5 grams of fiber, compared to peeled apples.
Unfortunately, apples are one of the versatile healthy foods that can be processed into a variety of unhealthy snacks (box juice, apple chips, apple candy, etc.) and lose their nutrients.
Peanut butter/peanut butter
Many parents avoid peanut butter because they worry about the potential allergens contained in nuts and high fat content. Peanut butter does contain high fat, but it is unsaturated fat, better than bad fats that can be found in other fatty foods. Do not forget to always choose peanut butter without sugar or low sugar.
Yogurt
Yogurt is a very healthy food for children, especially for children who don't drink a lot of milk, because yogurt can be a good source of calcium.
However, choose a yogurt variant without additional ingredients, such as sugar and artificial flavorings, and equipped with high probiotics so that your little one will not lose the essential nutrients from yogurt.
Tuna fish
Fish is a food that has high nutrition. Tuna is often the umpteenth choice of parents in presenting a food menu, but the fact is tuna contains many nutrients that are important for child development.
Parents are often worried about serving canned tuna for their children due to mercury contamination in fish, but it is important to remember that tuna is still allowed to be consumed in origin is not excessive. Although there are warnings, children can still consume two canned tuna dishes a week. Or, if you prefer to serve fresh tuna, enter a white albacore tuna dish in your baby's diet for one portion a week.
Breakfast cereal
A full bowl of cereal full of sugar is not a healthy breakfast, but other breakfast cereals can be a healthy choice in your child's breakfast menu.
When choosing breakfast cereals for your child, try looking for cereals that cannot be consumed without milk. Good choices such as cereals with whole wheat with added fiber and calcium. Depending on the rest of your baby's food menu, you might be able to buy breakfast cereals containing iron and other minerals and vitamins.
Egg
Some time ago, eggs were known as high cholesterol foods, but many nutritionists now agree that eggs are a healthy food in your diet.
Eggs are a good source of protein and contain iron and other vitamins and minerals.
What about cholesterol contained in eggs? Eggs do contain cholesterol, but they do not contain a lot of saturated fat, where saturated fat is a component that increases cholesterol levels. Therefore, an egg that is consumed alternating days is very good for children.
Vegetables
Of course, vegetables will be included in the list of healthy foods for children, but that doesn't mean you have to trick your child into eating vegetables or forcing your child to eat broccoli or spinach.
There are many vegetables that are loved by children, such as cooked carrots, corn, peas, and baked potatoes. Cooked carrots are a healthy choice because they have high fiber content, vitamin A, vitamin C, and also potassium.
Don't forget to introduce your child to vegetables from an early age, offer a variety of choices, give a good example by eating a variety of vegetables and offering a small portion of these vegetables, even if your child doesn't eat them. If you continue to offer vegetables, your child will eat them.
Oatmeal
Even if your baby likes oatmeal cereal, but usually when they start big, your child will reduce their consumption of oatmeal and eat other wheat-containing foods.
You can fight this trend by regularly serving oatmeal to your child and offering a variety of processed oats as a snack (cookies oatmeal, etc.).
Oatmeal contains very high fiber so it is very good for your child, like other whole-grain foods.
Sunflower seed
Although eating sunflower seeds (kuaci) is seen as bad 'snacking' habits, sunflower seeds turn out to be a healthy snack that can be enjoyed by all children, as long as they do not throw their skin scattered on the floor and are mature enough so that sunflower seeds do not explode.
Sunflower seeds have high fiber and are rich in iron. They also contain vitamin E, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, and folate.
Although sunflower seeds contain a lot of unsaturated fats, they are healthy fats. The bad fat content in sunflower seeds is very low.
