How many snacks do children eat appropriately every day?

With the arrival of the New Year, more and more parents began setting New Year for children's health plans, how to correctly guide children to eat snacks?

Is your baby addicted to snack? In fact, reasonable snacks will provide your child with certain energy and nutrients, but snacks provide far less comprehensive balanced energy and nutrient than meals, and often snacks can reduce appetite.

"If children must eat, the parents should give fresh, easy to digest snacks, such as milk, fruit, vegetables, nuts or raisins and other natural dried fruit." Don't allow children to eat between meals, eat snacks not more than three times every day.

If your child like raisins, two packets per day, do not exceed 80 grams. Sugar in 40 grams of raisins equals to a catty of grape, too much sugar intake will cause overweight and obesity.

In addition, walnut, almond, cashew, pine nuts etc nuts although nutrition is rich, but walnut, for example, containing fat is more, eating many may cause overweight and obesity, etc. Therefore, the amount of weekly nuts had better not exceed 50 grams.

For mothers, the choosing also has tricks, besides the choice to control the amount of small package; mothers can also pay more attention to nutrition labels. With candied fruit, for example, candied fruit and dried fruit as though, also have nutrients of a natural fruit, but nutrition label display sugar-adding, "sugar will more easily cause overweight obesity problem, thus to eat many is adverse to health."

Snacks table suggested by Experts

3 ~ 5 years old, give your child drink boiled water, do not let your child eating while he is play, avoiding snacks choke into the trachea.

6 ~ 12 years old, give fresh, easy to digest snacks, such as milk, fruit, vegetables, nuts or raisins and other natural dried fruit. Don't allow children to eat between meals, eat snacks not more than three times every day.

13 ~ 17 years old, choose more milk, fruit and nuts etc fresh food, eat less deepfry, too much, too sugary and salty snacks, drink less sugary drinks, don't drink alcohol.


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