Nutritional Value of Food Groups and Dietary Requirements for Children

Award in Childcare
and Education

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
5.1 Nutritional value of the main food group..............................................................................1
5.2 Nutritional requirements of children aged:-...........................................................................2
5.3. Role of early childhood practioner in meeting child dietary requirement while
encouraging them to posses healthy eating..................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Health education is important for children because it can aware children to focus on their
health and aware about their physical growth. Health education can engage children to eat
healthy food and maintain hygiene. Early year practitioner promote children to take healthy food
and aware individual children to make their body strong and healthy which is necessary for the
child development (Venter and et. al 2018).
MAIN BODY
5.1 Nutritional value of the main food group
Nutrients are the inevitable substance which gives boost up the body to function well.
They provide energy to increases the immunization system and help in growth and repair the
body. Proper nutrition diet make strong and protect the body against illness, intake of
appropriate nutrients in diet is beneficial to keep body physically, mentally and socially healthy.
For young children, it is necessary to take proper nutritional diet which can helps in growing the
children and make him strong to fight against various diseases. There are some nutritional value
of major food group which includes-
Grains:- Some basic nutrients of grain include the carbohydrate, fibers and some
vitamins and minerals. Whole grain contains vitamins and minerals which are necessary for body
function and they supply plenty of starch source for providing energy within the body. It can
have high fibre source and maintain a healthy body weight which can prevent from different
diseases. Bread is fotified with calacium and provide approx 30% of daily intake of calcium
which can maintains the body and teeth. Bread is an improtant souce of dietary fibre which helps
in controlling the blodd sugar and keep digrestive system healthy. Cereal are rich in carbohydrate
and a good source of vitamin, minerals. Cereals products are an imprortant source of energy and
it is helpful for lowering blodd cholestrol level which can prevent from cardiovascular disesases.
vegetables and fruits:- In take of fruits and vegetable in nutrient diet is the essential
source of vitamin C and dietary fibre. Most fruits and vegetables provide vitamin C which can
supply folate and potassium within the body. They are excellent source of energetic diet and it
can helps in maintaining digestion system healthy (Wang and et. al., 2019). In childhood fruits
and vegetable are the good source of increasing energy within the body. Patatoes are rich in
vitamins and minerals which can keep body healthy, reduce heart diseses and increses immunity
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