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The Best Foods You Should Incorporate Into Your Child’s Diet

The Best Foods You Should Incorporate Into Your Child’s Diet

August 31, 2022 By Fatherhood Factor Team Leave a Comment

Keeping your children healthy is especially difficult as they love to eat candy, chocolate, and snacks that aren’t as healthy as leafy greens, fruits, and veggies. Yet, with that difficulty, you must still go out of your way to ensure that their diets are healthy, nutritious, and taste good. Read on to learn more about the best foods you should incorporate into your child’s diet.

Yogurt

Yogurt is something that everyone should eat because it’s both healthy and delicious. However, with that said, many child-oriented yogurts come with a high amount of sugar and fewer proteins and nutrients than they’ll need. You should look for more Greek yogurts full of probiotics, protein, calcium, and natural fruit instead of simple fruit flavors.

Leafy Greens

Leafy greens are great additions to any diet, both for your kids and your own diet as well. They are essential components for any diet, packed with essential vitamins, minerals, and much-needed fiber. Collard greens, spinach, and kale are also high in lutein and zeaxanthin, carotenoids that do wonders for eye health and vision. You can steam these greens and mix them into rice bowls or have them in salads, but you can also put them into smoothies!

Healthy Protein

Protein is essential in any diet, but it is even more important in children growing every day. Many children’s lunch meals will have highly processed meats, and while these do have protein, the foods are also high in saturated fats. You should consider healthier protein options that also have essential fats, such as beans, nuts, seeds, fish, and eggs.

Water

Water seems out of place on this list, but it is crucial to consider it a healthier option compared to other options like sugary juices, sodas, sports and energy drinks, etc. These drinks have a lot of calories and sugar with little to no actual health benefit, and they can lead to massive health problems down the line. That’s why it is so critical that you place great importance on drinking water above all else.

The best foods you should incorporate into your child’s diet may not be their favorites, but if you at least get some on the plate, you are doing your job. Of course, it’ll be hard to convert your children to eat this way immediately, but getting them on these foods early will significantly impact their lives.

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