Avoid Unhealthy Snacks for Children

in food •  7 years ago  (edited)

In addition to eating a variety of main dishes, children's nutritional needs can also be met through various snacks. If you do not make your own snacks at home, your baby would want to buy various snacks sold in the market. Child snacks are increasingly varied. However, delicious snacks are not necessarily healthy. You need to be more selective for the child's snack business from now on.

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Characteristics of Unhealthy Child Healthy Food

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If you already understand the characteristics of jajanan children who are not healthy following, you certainly will not be negligent supervising the habit of snacking children. Your baby's health will be more assured.

Striking Hockey Color

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The content of chemical dyes is very dangerous for food and beverages. That is why chemical dye is not suitable for making snacks of children. You must be more vigilant when you find snacks that are striking colors. Children are easily attracted to snacks whose color is appealing. This is what makes some sellers snacks choose the use of chemical dyes that cost economical and attractive colors.

Taste is too Sharp

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Not only dyes, additives in the form of various types of synthetic flavor is also often added to children's snacks. Variety tastes very diverse and easy to arouse children's appetite. The use of this synthetic flavoring agent will create a sharp and unnatural taste. For example, the use of synthetic sweeteners is usually accompanied by a bitter taste sensation on the tongue. When consumed continuously, synthetic flavorings will cause metabolic disorders in a number of organs.

The Presentation of Less Hygienic Foods

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Food serving factors can also affect the quality of children's snacks. Usually less healthy hawker served with potluck with packaging in the form of newspaper sheets or waste paper. Snacks are placed in the open full of dust and infestation of flies are also at risk for the health of the baby. Make sure that you are careful to observe the environment around the hawker seller before your child bought it.

Cheap Prices Indeed often Make Tempted

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There is still one more characteristic of unhealthy snacks that often escape the attention, which is very cheap hawker prices. Raw materials that are less qualified can indeed make the price of children's snacks become cheaper. So, make sure your baby is not arbitrarily buy snacks that are cheap. You must guide your baby to choose healthy snacks as needed.

Food snacks are at risk for health because their handling is often unhygienic which allows snack foods to be contaminated by toxic microbes and unauthorized use of Food Additives (BTP).
Food snacks contain many risks, dust and flies that settle on uncovered food can cause disease especially in our digestive system. Not to mention if the water supply is limited, then the tools used such as spoons, forks, glasses and dishes are not washed cleanly. This often makes people who consume it can be attacked by various diseases such as dysentery, typhoid or other stomach diseases.

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