For children, color means more than visual beauty, and bright and beautiful foods are equally attractive. However, snacks containing artificial colors, although good-looking, endanger children's health, not only weakening appetite, and may even lead to mental decline and precocious puberty. Therefore, parents should learn to guide their children to correctly choose colorful foods and eat healthy fresh fruits and vegetables.
Color snacks to children's intelligence points
In colored foods, there are generally two sources of pigment. One is natural pigments, just like animal hemoglobin, plant pigments, and a pigment that is extracted from petroleum, and then chemically. This class contains certain toxicities. There are many places where pigments are used in the world, but now there are certain toxic and side effects. Carcinogenic substances are contained. There are many claims for teratogenic claims, so many countries no longer use these poisonous labors. Pigment, our country also stipulates that only five pigments are allowed, namely carmine, amaranth, lemon yellow, sunset yellow, indigo, and strictly controlled in use, the dosage shall not exceed one ten-thousandth, and shall not be used for infants Food consumed by young children.
Eating colored snacks with excessive synthetic pigments can not only cause allergies such as asthma, rhinitis, and pruritus, but can also affect the child's nerves, leading to headaches and other symptoms. Take some brightly colored sodas as an example. Due to the addition of artificial colors and flavors, overdrinking can easily sink on the child's mature gastrointestinal mucosa, causing loss of appetite and indigestion, and interfere with the function of various enzymes in the body. Negative effects on metabolism and physical development. Over time, malnutrition also reduces the child’s intellectual development. Doctors suggest that parents should strictly control children's snacks and eat more natural foods.
To eat more fruits and vegetables
Color fruits and vegetables not only look beautiful, but also rich in nutrition. For children who are picky eaters or partial eclipses themselves, parents must choose carefully. Yellow fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamins, such as day lily, peony, squash, etc. Vitamin E is very beneficial to the liver and pancreas; oranges, lemons, and corn are the masters of synthetic vitamin c and eat 2-3 yellow melons every day. If it does, it will guarantee the vitamin C needed. Green vegetables are rich in folic acid and calcium, such as spinach, green vegetables, squid flowers, in addition to a rich fiber can help children digest, prevent constipation, but also rich in calcium, promote baby's bones and teeth development. Black foods such as mushrooms, sesame seeds, black rice, and black fungus contain essential trace elements and vitamins. It is also recommended that parents choose more for their children.