Question
What snacks can a 2-year-old child eat?
Answer
High-sugar foods like dried fruits, candies, chocolates, Chinese pastries, and various ice creams and popsicles can easily cause a feeling of fullness after eating, which may affect meal intake and lead to nutritional imbalance and tooth decay in children. Additionally, preserved, smoked, and fried foods such as lamb skewers, salted beef jerky, and various puffed snacks are not suitable as children’s snacks. During the processing, most of the nutritional components in these foods are destroyed, and some carcinogenic or toxic substances may also be produced, such as the toxicity of a roasted chicken leg being roughly equivalent to that of 60 cigarettes. As for cookies and instant noodles, due to their high calorie content and extremely low nutritional value, they are also not suitable as children’s snacks.