Children Just Like One Fruit and Vegetable Only, What's Wrong?
To ensure the growth and development of healthy children, parents should familiarize them to eat fruit and vegetables.
Both sources of food are able to strengthen the immune system of children, which can help the body against various diseases that are ready to attack. High fiber content in fruits and vegetables, also helps the digestive system of children, so avoid constipation.
Grateful parents who have children hooked to eat fruit and vegetables. Without prompting and being forced, the Little will look for it to be eaten. So, what if the child just like one particular kind of fruit and vegetables? While the recommended should be a variety of colors every day?
Ong Jia Xin, Nutritionist from the Department of Nutrition and Diet KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), Singapore, said, much better than nothing. The next task, invites them to eat colorful fruits and vegetables.
Because, if you eat only one fruit or vegetable every day, your baby may lose important nutrients available in other fruits and vegetables of different colors.
For example, carrots contain high vitamin A, and high spinach folate. If every day is just that-that's all, how can the Little get vitamin B, vitamin C, iron, calcium, and others?
"Since the habits and appetite of fruits and vegetables are formed from an early age, it is important for parents to provide variety in their children's diet from a young age," Ong was quoted from Health XChange Singapore as saying on Sunday, May 27, 2018.
So they are not short of nutrients in the long term.