Three common misunderstandings of children's diet, have you "stepped on the thunder"?

Children are the heart of parents, not only parents are afraid of children's nutrition is not enough, grandparents and grandparents are also afraid of children's lack of nutrition, change the law to make children eat, buy nutritional products, have you walked into the misunderstanding? Let's take a look at it!

Myth 1: Coarse grains are healthy, and eating more is good for the body

Truth: Although coarse grains are good, they also need to pay attention to the proportion of coarse and thin, otherwise they will increase the burden of digestion and lead to constipation.

Compared with finely processed grains, whole grain foods and low-processing cereals can indeed retain germ, more B vitamins and dietary fiber, which is beneficial to health; but children's gastrointestinal function is not perfect, and replacing fine staple foods with a large number of coarse grains will increase the digestive burden of the gastrointestinal tract and even lead to constipation.

The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" pointed out that the principle of "diverse food, cereal-based", daily staple foods, should include cereals, beans and potatoes, but need to pay attention to the combination of thickness and fineness, generally one-third of the coarse grains can be.

Myth two: if you don't like to eat vegetables and fruits, drink fruit and vegetable juice

Truth: vegetables and fruits can not replace each other, eat vegetables and fruits directly than drink fresh juice, the content of fruit and vegetable juice in the commercial fruit and vegetable juice drinks is about 10%.

Many parents reflect that their children do not like to eat vegetables and fruits, and they are tired of squeezing juice at home, so they often buy various fruit and vegetable juice drinks from the supermarket, "this is healthier than carbonated drinks, just to supplement the lack of vegetables and fruits."

But in fact, the nutritional value of vegetables and fruits is different, can not replace each other, can only be combined with each other to achieve a better combination of nutrients.

Moreover, when eating vegetables and fruits directly, it will stimulate the digestive tract to secrete digestive juices and digestive enzymes through chewing, but if you drink vegetables and fruit juice directly, there is no such effect, and if you drink freshly squeezed fruit juice, it is easy to 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 30% and 100%), and some sweeteners and sugar components will be added for flavoring, and long-term drinking may increase weight and increase the risk of caries.

The really healthy way to eat, or should be a combination of different varieties of vegetables and fruits every day, eat the rainbow on the table.

Myth three: 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 by drinking flavored milk and pure milk.

Some children prefer milk drinks and flavored milk, but both drinks are different from pure milk. Usually, the content of milk in milk drinks is mostly 30%, and the flavored milk is added on the basis of pure milk, so the main ingredient is milk.

If you really don't like the taste of pure milk, it is also possible to choose a variety of flavored milk flavored milk.

The Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents recommend one cup of milk per day, or 300 grams of dairy products equivalent to liquid milk, such as yogurt, cheese, milk skin, etc.

Text/Wei Linlin (Registered Dietitian China Good Nutrition Koppda)