food and drinks so important in early childhood..

Many children attend early childhood services and some spend long periods there. This means children can eat many meals and snacks away from their home. Food should be nutritious and also help to meet the social, cultural and educational needs of children.

The preschool years are a time when food habits are being developed. Most children have formed lifelong eating patterns by school age. It is an important responsibility of carers to guide children towards sound food habits which will to help them maintain a health in the long term..

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"healthy eating"

The following is a non-exhaustive list of foods that have been considered healthy:

• Apple cider vinegar, a fruit vinegar considered a health food
• Broccoli sprouts
• Certain cereal products
  • Corn flakes, patented food invented in 1894
  • Digestive biscuit, English baked good from 1851, containing fiber and sometimes sodium bicarbonate
  • Graham cracker, cracker made with whole grain Graham flour (1829)
  • Graham bread, a type of whole wheat bread
  • Granola, a food made from mixed, toasted grains
  • Granula, the first manufactured breakfast cereal (1863)
  • Grape-Nuts, an American breakfast cereal made from baked and ground grain (1897)
  • Muesli, breakfast cereal of rolled oats, fruit and nuts, made by a Swiss doctor (1900)
  • Shredded wheat, whole wheat cereal (1893)
• Herbal extract, plants, often medicinal that are concentrated and standardized
• Herbal teas
• Honey, a naturally occurring whole sweetener
• Malt, whole sprouted barley
• Meat analogue, a dietary alternative to meat, found in some vegetarian and vegan diets^[5]
• Molasses, black strap molasses has been sold as a health food
• Certain oils, including olive oil and fish oil
• Postum, a coffee alternative from 1895
• Yogurt, traditional cultured milk product

FOOD CIRCLE