Children are the most important thing for parents. Not only parents are afraid that their children will not have enough nutrition, but grandparents are also afraid that their children will have insufficient nutrition, so they try their best to prepare delicious food and buy nutritional supplements for their children. Have you made any misunderstandings? Come and compare!
1 Myth 1
Whole grains are healthy,
Eating more is good for the body
Truth: Although whole grains are good, you need to pay attention to the proportion of thickness, otherwise it will increase the digestive burden and cause constipation.
Compared with finely processed cereals, whole grain foods and less processed cereals can indeed retain the germ, more B vitamins and dietary fiber, which are beneficial to health; however, the gastrointestinal function of children is not fully developed. , replacing refined staple foods with a large amount of whole grains will increase the digestive burden on the gastrointestinal tract and even lead to constipation.
" Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents " points out that the principle of "a variety of foods, mainly cereals", the daily staple food should include cereals, beans and potatoes, but you need to pay attention to the combination of thickness, generally one-third Whole grains are fine.
2Myth 2
If you don’t like to eat fruits and vegetables
just drink fruit and vegetable juice
Truth: Fruits and vegetables cannot replace each other. It is better to eat fruits and vegetables directly than to drink freshly squeezed juice. The fruit and vegetable juice content in commercially available fruit and vegetable juice drinks is about 10%.
Many parents report that their children don’t like to eat fruits and vegetables, and they find it troublesome to make juice at home, so they often buy various fruit and vegetable juice drinks from supermarkets. “This is healthier than carbonated drinks and just makes up for the lack of fruits and vegetables.”
But in fact, vegetables and fruits have different nutritional values and cannot replace each other. They can only achieve a better nutritional combination by matching each other.
Moreover, when eating vegetables and fruits directly, the digestive tract will be stimulated to secrete digestive juice and digestive enzyme through chewing. However, if you drink vegetable and fruit juice directly, there will be no such effect. At the same time, it is easier to drink freshly squeezed fruit juice. Cause an increase in blood sugar levels. Most of the fruit and vegetable juice drinks on the market are drinks with a fruit and vegetable juice content of less than 10% (there are also some with 30% and 100%). Some sweeteners and sugars are added for seasoning. Long-term drinking may increase weight. At the same time, Increased caries risk.
The truly healthy way to eat is to combine different types of vegetables and fruits every day to create a rainbow on the table.
3Myth 3
Drinking milk drinks every day is the same as drinking milk
Truth: Most of the milk content in milk drinks is only 30%, which is different from the nutrition obtained from drinking flavored milk and pure milk.
Some children like milk drinks and flavored milk, but these two drinks are different from pure milk. Usually the milk content in milk drinks is 30%. Flavored milk is based on pure milk with added flavoring, so the main ingredient is still milk.
If you really don’t like the taste of pure milk, you can also choose breakfast milk with various flavors of flavored milk.
The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" recommends one cup of milk a day, or dairy products equivalent to 300 grams of liquid milk, such as yogurt, cheese, milk skin , etc.
Content source: Sesame Health WeChat public account
Editing and editing: Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Nursing Magazine
Correspondents: Dong Wei, Sun Lei, Qin Shasha, Wang Jingjing
