Nowadays, many children are “snack controlâ€. When they eat snacks, they affect normal eating. This makes parents very distressed – how to choose snacks to be healthier? At the first Nut Nutrition Health Forum hosted by the China Nutrition Society, experts recommended that parents prefer fruits, milk and nuts for their children. Among them, nutrients rich in nuts are extremely beneficial to children's brain and vision development. Parents should guide their children to develop the habit of eating nuts every day.
Zhang Bing, chairman of the Public Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society and deputy director of the Nutrition and Health Center of the China CDC, said that the snack consumption rate of people aged 2 and over in China has increased from 11.2% in the 1990s to 56.7% in the near future. Snacks are available. Energy accounts for about 10% of the total daily energy. Therefore, guiding children and adolescents to establish a correct diet and health concept, reducing or correcting the consumption behavior of bad snacks is conducive to their concept of establishing a balanced diet and reasonable nutrition from childhood, promoting healthy growth and benefiting for life.
Zhang Bing suggested that the choice of snacks for children can refer to the "China Children and Youth Snacks Guide (2018)", which recommends 2 years old preschool children to 17-year-olds, snacks are preferably fruits, milk and nuts. The nutrients rich in nuts are extremely beneficial to the development of children's brains. Unsaturated fatty acids have important effects on the development of children's vision. To this end, children should be guided to develop the habit of eating nuts every day. In addition, different nuts have their own specialties in nutrition. Parents and children are advised to pay attention to diversity and reasonable matching when eating nuts.
Don't look at the nutty foods, but it is the darling of nutrition experts. Wang Zhihong, deputy director of the Public Nutrition Department of the China National Center for Disease Control and Nutrition, said that from the analysis of nutrients, the nut fat content can reach 40% or more, the protein content is 12% to 36%, and the carbohydrate content is below 15%. Contains minerals, vitamin E and B vitamins. Nuts have a high fat content, but only 10% to 15% of saturated fatty acids, mostly unsaturated fatty acids, linoleic acid and linolenic acid are essential fatty acids. In addition, nuts also contain functional ingredients such as phospholipids, polyphenols, and flavonoids.
Through epidemiological investigations and nutritional experiments at home and abroad, it has been found that eating nuts can bring many benefits to the body: First, lowering blood fat, peanuts, walnuts, almonds and other nuts rich in unsaturated fatty acids can lower blood lipids. The second is to prevent cardiovascular disease, but its mechanism has not been fully recognized. In addition, nutrients such as arginine, vitamin E, folic acid, dietary fiber, potassium, magnesium, tannic acid and polyphenols have protective effects on the onset of cardiovascular disease. The third is to reduce the risk of developing diabetes. The reason is that nuts are rich in dietary fiber and unsaturated fatty acids, which can increase the sensitivity of insulin and thus the metabolism of carbohydrates. The fourth is to delay aging and anti-tumor, which is related to the fact that nuts contain a lot of antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin E and selenium.
The Chinese Dietary Guidelines (2016) recommends that soybeans and nuts should be ingested 25 to 35 grams per day. Among them, nuts should consume about 10 grams per day. However, the data show that only about 10% of the residents in China use nuts. The consumption of nuts is only 4 to 5 grams per day. The seeds are mainly seeds such as melon seeds and peanuts. The consumption of nuts such as walnuts and almonds is very low.
According to data shared by Wang Yuyao, deputy secretary-general and researcher of the Chinese Nutrition Society, in 2014, the sales volume of the Chinese nut industry was 55.6 billion yuan. It is estimated that in 2020, the sales volume of the Chinese nut roasted seeds and nuts industry will exceed 100 billion yuan. (Economic Daily reporter Wu Jiajia)
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