Children get hungry easily in the afternoon, and often go to nearby convenience stores or food stalls to buy things to eat after school. As parents, how should they check their children's snacks and let them eat healthily?

After school at noon, children suddenly crowded the convenience store on the corner, and some people ran to the nearby food stalls to eat east and west to supplement calories. But taking the pudding that children like to eat as an example, there is actually a huge trap of "high sugar content". According to the survey of Dongshi Foundation, the sugar content of 14 puddings on the market is surprisingly high, such as unified pudding, hi-kitchen egg pudding, Morinaga milk sugar pudding and Yakult My Time collagen pudding, with the sugar content exceeding 20g. In other words, if children eat a pudding every day before primary school, then the sugar intake will exceed the standard that day.

Modern people have a strong concept of health preservation, and everyone knows to eat less food that is too oily and salty for children. However, sugar intake is often invisible and easily overlooked. Sugar in food will inhibit growth hormone, and "less sugar" has gradually become a key word.

LinYu Ruru, head of the feeding team in the Nutrition Room of the Affiliated Hospital of Taipei Medical College, said that parents are advised to read the calorie labels of food to help their children establish the concept of healthy eating and learn to choose delicious and nutritious snacks. She also reminded that besides paying attention to the principles of oil, salt and sweetness, we should also pay attention to the calories of snacks, and it is best to control them at 100 to 200 calories, "so as not to affect the appetite of the next meal." Lin Yuru also provided some simple and healthy practices for some children's common dim sum choices:

1. Tea eggs and soybean milk: convenience stores are preferred.

The food in convenience stores is dazzling, and Lin Yuru thinks tea eggs and soybean milk are healthier choices. Although sugar-free soybean milk is the healthiest under the action of reducing sugar, it tastes bad for children, so she thinks that as long as she can drink "less sugar" soybean milk, it will be good for children. If you can't drink less sugar soybean milk at once, drinking sugar soybean milk is healthier than other drinks. She reminded parents that when buying children's food, although health is the primary consideration, the taste of the food should also be considered, so that children can really eat healthier food.