Have you provided your child with enough vitamins and minerals?

For older children, mothers can feed them fruit cut into small pieces so that they can easily chew. Do not feed your child fruit when he is hungry or full, but between main meals or 30 minutes to 1 hour after meals and consider it as a snack.

For older children, mothers can feed them fruit cut into small pieces so that they can easily chew. Do not feed your child fruit when they are hungry or full, but between main meals or 30 minutes to 1 hour apart and consider it a snack. With fruit juices high in vitamin C such as oranges, tangerines, grapefruits, dilute and add a little sugar. Fruits with high sugar content should also not be given to children in large amounts such as longan, lychee, jackfruit. Some fruits can cause allergies such as pineapple, so pay attention when eating and make sure that the child does not have any reaction.

Children should get into the habit of eating lots of fruits and vegetables from an early age.

When children eat complementary foods (weaning), each supplementary meal needs to have enough of the 4 food groups including carbohydrates, protein, fat and green vegetables (vegetables). Depending on the age of the child, feed them. From 1-2 spoons (5-10g) of crushed green vegetables when the child is 6-7 months old, 3-4 spoons (20-30g) when the child is 1-2 years old in each supplementary meal. For children over 3 years old, when feeding green vegetables, there is no need to crush them, just chop them finely and cook them into soup mixed with rice to eat such as crab soup, shrimp soup, meat soup...

Many mothers think that it is not necessary to feed their children green vegetables and ripe fruits. For many reasons, the most common is that the children do not like them so they do not feed them. Many mothers think that meat, fish, eggs, milk... are nutritious foods, so their children's meals only have meat and no vegetables. Many mothers are afraid to feed their children green vegetables and ripe fruits because they are worried that their children will be poisoned by pesticides... or that eating green vegetables will cause their children to have green stools. There are also many mothers who, due to insufficient information, think that eating carrots with lots of vitamin A is good for their children's health, so they feed them to their children every day. Only when their children have jaundice and have a poor appetite do they go to the doctor and find out that their children have vitamin A poisoning.

All the reasons given by mothers above are incorrect, there needs to be a change in thinking and behavior to raise children better. In particular, mothers also need to note that vegetables and fruits, due to their high vitamin content, are easily destroyed by heat and the cooking process, so to preserve the vitamins, mothers should not cook too much, but should add the porridge when it is almost done.

According to SKDS