With the child's mothers and fathers for the child's health more and more concerned, in the choice of food for the child, will always pay attention to the labeled "children's food" products, many parents believe that this kind of labeled children's food products for children to eat and drink, should be beneficial to the child's health, after all, from the price point of view, marked with "children's food" The product type is more expensive than ordinary products, and the pleasing appearance of the packaging, so that children can not let go of it as soon as they see it. As a result, children's food has become a unique food category that cares for children's health. But regarding the principles and nutritional value of children's food, is it completely healthy for children as the product advertises? Today we're going to talk about children's food that's mythologized by the market.
Exquisitely packaged children's food
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="3" > first we have to distinguish between the concept of infant and toddler food and children's food</h1>
Infants and adults are very different, because infants and young children in the growth and development process, the degree of chewing and digestive organs are relatively fragile, so nutritionists for the concept of infant exclusive food to define, infants and young children in each age stage of the need for different nutrients, so through the food intake of nutrients also need to be special collocation, and our common infant exclusive food such as formula milk powder, is based on different ages of scientific collocation of nutritional elements, Foods that are adapted to the absorption and supplementation of nutrients by infants and young children at different stages of development. But here we need to emphasize a concept of misunderstanding, infant exclusive food has the corresponding national production standards and specifications, is the food industry recognized product type, and children's food, is only a commodity concept, in the national food management system, there is no special classification of children's food.
Infant formula is exclusive to infants and young children
The types of children's food are mainly for children over 3 years old, and the products we often see such as children's noodles, children's soy sauce, children's pasta, and children's steaks are actually aimed at children over 3 years old or even older. The characteristics of the growth and development of children over 3 years old are mainly that the digestive system has basically developed and formed, and its digestive ability is not much different from that of adults, so our common ordinary food, children's stomach is also able to digest.
Children's food is just a business term
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" data-track="12" > children's soy sauce</h1>
A variety of children's soy sauce
The advertising slogan of children's soy sauce sold on the market usually contains terms such as "low sodium, pure natural brewing, calcium, iron", etc. Compared with ordinary soy sauce, once the term "children's soy sauce" is added, the value can be several times higher than ordinary soy sauce. But referring to the ingredient list, there is no essential difference between children's soy sauce and ordinary soy sauce. Nutritionists believe that children aged 1 to 3 should not ingest any food containing soy sauce ingredients, and children over 3 years old should also eat less soy sauce foods as much as possible, because the child's taste buds are still developing, and the heavy taste of food is likely to stimulate the sensitive taste buds of young children and affect the future taste development. And soy sauce is just a condiment in our lives, whether it is an adult cooking a child's meal, the amount of soy sauce will be very small, ordinary soy sauce and children's soy sauce in cooking there is no essential difference!
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" data-track="16" > children's noodles</h1>
Children's noodles
There are many types of children's noodles, there are vegetable noodles with vegetable juice, bright colors, zinc and calcium noodles with trace elements, and the shape of noodles has changed from traditional noodles to butterfly noodles, cat ears and so on. We do not rule out that some noodles are produced using real vegetable juice, the vegetable vitamins contained in this noodle are indeed higher than the nutritional value of conventional noodles, but when buying children's noodles, we must carefully study the ingredient list to avoid some noodles using pigments to add color on the noodles. When buying children's noodles, you also need to pay special attention to the sodium content, high-sodium noodles can ensure the tendons of noodles, but there is no benefit to children's health. At the same time, the expensive calcium and zinc noodles are actually lost in the process of cooking noodles, and the trace elements are basically lost, and it is not as direct as eating calcium tablets to supplement calcium.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" data-track="20" > children's fruit and vegetable juice drinks</h1>
Children's drinks
We usually think that the price of children's drinks is sold so expensive, is not the ingredients are fresh fruit and vegetable juice, in fact, for the purchase of children's drinks, we also need to carefully study the ingredient list, to the market sale of banana milk as an example, its ingredient list mainly includes:
From the ingredients we can see that banana milk = milk + water + white sugar + fructose syrup + concentrated banana juice + food additives (carrageenan + glyceryl monostearate + sodium hexametaphosphate + flavor +...). ）。 There is only one ingredient for milk, and that is raw milk.
It can be seen that the composition of banana milk is not as simple as banana and milk that we simply imagine, and other fruit and vegetable juice drinks can be so as to carefully observe the ingredient list to avoid excessive intake of additives and sugars by children.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" data-track="29" > how should parents pay attention to children's food health? </h1>
First of all, parents must not blindly follow the trend when purchasing products, and high-priced children's products are not necessarily of great benefit to children's health, and it is likely to be IQ tax. At the same time, in the daily diet of children, try to achieve nutritional balance, after all, any snack is not healthy with three meals a day. Most importantly, when purchasing children's products for children, we must carefully study the ingredient list in order to achieve the purpose of de-counterfeiting.
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