3 Mar 2011

5 Guide to Choosing Healthy Snacks

Safety and quality of child snacks are usually sold in schools is often cause concern for the parents. However, it prohibits children not to snack at all was it was not possible because it could have affected children of his friends. In addition, snacks accounted for 36 percent of the total energy consumed by children.

To ensure safe food consumed by children, ideally a child brought their food made at home. However, if not possible, parents should start teaching children how to recognize and choose healthy snacks and safe. Read also Healthy Benefits of Chocolate.

Here are 5 guidelines to choose a healthy meal or snack:

1. Avoid foods that are brightly colored or very different from the original color. According to Ir Chandra Irawan of Chemical Analyst Academy (AKA), Bogor, snacks, like crackers, noodles, snack, or ice cream the color is too flashy there may have added dyes that are not safe.

2. Taste the flavor. Unsafe food is generally a sharp taste, for example, very tasty and make the tongue vibrate. "Usually our tongue sharp enough to tell which foods are safe and which are not," he said.

3. The smell of stale or rancid food sign that is damaged or contaminated by microorganisms.

4. Observe composition. Be a smart consumer to carefully read the existing content of foodstuffs. If you want to buy imported products, make sure the products have been registered and licensed by the Food and Drug Supervisory Body which can be observed from the label on the packaging.

5. Notice its texture. Texture of food can indicate food freshness. Foods that have changed color, especially mildew, indicating that the product has expired.

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