How to correct children's picky eating?

Nowadays, many children have varying degrees of picky eating. Children with long-term severe picky eating generally suffer from severe malnutrition, which has a great impact on the physical and intellectual development of children. We parents must not let our children develop the habit of picky eating. If we find that our children have picky eating, we must help them correct it in time. So how to correct children's picky eating? Let's take a look at it together.

1. First of all, you should create a quiet and relaxing dining environment for your children. Children should have a fixed place to eat. There should be no distractions around her while she's eating.

2. The role of adults as role models. This includes pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers who should try their best to choose food scientifically and diversify food for the health of the next generation to ensure balanced and comprehensive nutrition.

3. The variety of food should be diversified. Pay attention to the type, color, taste, shape and combination of food to cultivate good eating habits. This is the only way to ensure that the nutrition the child consumes is comprehensive and reasonable. Let the children return to eating meals cooked by their mother.

4. Food should be fresh, prepared hygienically, eaten immediately after being cooked, and no leftovers should be left. Choose more easily digestible foods, more fish and shrimp, vegetables and fruits cannot be replaced interchangeably, choose more dark green, red and yellow vegetables and fruits.

●Taste: Light is better. Use as little or no seasonings containing MSG, chicken essence, pigments, or saccharin as possible. It should not be too salty, and spicy and irritating foods should be avoided.

It is not advisable to eat hard foods (hard-shelled fruits), pickled foods, and fried foods directly.

●Cooking methods: Steaming, boiling, stewing and simmering are recommended; frying, roasting and baking are not recommended.

5. Choose snacks scientifically and reasonably.

Snacks are part of a healthy diet

● Choose fresh, easily digestible foods, especially fruits and vegetables

● Do not eat snacks before meals or before bedtime

● Avoid fried, high-sugar, overly salty, overly sticky, and puffed foods

●Drink less sweet drinks and refuse carbonated drinks

●Be careful when eating beans and nuts

6. Treat the primary disease.

There are many reasons for children's picky eating. Many children with picky eating have a phenomenon that the children also don't like the food that their parents don't like. This shows that parents' eating habits can directly affect their children's eating habits. Therefore, we as parents must set a good example for our children, tell them the harm of picky eating, and encourage them to eat foods that they don't usually like.