Snack Choices for School-Age Children
It is well-known that children love snacks, but children's snacks cannot be eaten indiscriminately, and the selection of children's snacks must also be scientific.
Guide to Choosing Children's Snacks
1. "High Three" snacks should not be eaten
It is best not to eat snacks that are high in sugar, high in salt, and high in fat. Candies, fried foods, carbonated drinks, ice cream, and other similar items should be eaten in moderation or avoided as much as possible.
2. Snacks with moderate amounts of fat, salt, and sugar can be eaten in moderation
Foods such as dark chocolate, beef jerky, century eggs, ham sausages, bra duck wings, meat floss, marinated eggs, fish fillets, cakes, mooncakes, flavored broad beans, marinated tofu, seaweed sheets, apple chips, raisins, cheese, milk tablets, candied walnuts, honey peanuts, salted cashews, sweet potato balls, dried sweet potatoes, etc., are all relatively ideal snacks for children.
In addition, fruit (vegetable) drinks with more than 30% juice content, such as coffee drinks, hawthorn drinks, almond milk, lactic acid drinks, fresh milk ice cream, fruit ice cream, etc.
3. Low-fat, low-salt, and low-sugar snacks are suitable for children to eat regularly
This type of children's snack includes: boiled corn, whole wheat bread, whole wheat crackers, soy milk, roasted soybeans, bananas, tomatoes, cucumbers, pears, peaches, apples, watermelons, grapes, fresh pure milk, pure yogurt, melon seeds, large almonds, boiled eggs, sugar-free or low-sugar oatmeal, pine nuts, hazelnuts, steamed, boiled, or roasted sweet potatoes, yams, potatoes, unsweetened fresh-squeezed orange juice, watermelon juice, celery juice, etc.