1. Drinks that children can drink besides water 1, cool coconut water Coconut water contains nutrition in addition to its sweet taste, so it is very suitable for children. Moreover, it also contains calcium and vitamin C, which can also prevent dehydration.
2, fruits are made into smoothies, fruits have vitamin C, and there are natural sugars, so children love to drink. You can try to give your child a smoothie instead of pudding for dessert after meals. Bananas, kiwis and avocados are all good choices.
Drinking too many drinks in the market is easy to get obese. 3, homemade strawberry milk will add half a cup of strawberries to milk to make strawberry milk, and occasionally give children a taste feast different from the original fresh milk, which will make them prefer to drink milk.
4, unsweetened juice If you want to give your child juice, you must ensure that it is 100% unsweetened natural juice. Most fruit juices sold in the market are sweetened, and drinking too much can easily lead to obesity and tooth decay.
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5, slightly sour lemonade baby tired of the tasteless boiled water? Drop a few drops of lemon into boiling water to give him a new experience. Lemon is very helpful for digestion, and it can help the body to contain water and is rich in vitamin C, which is very healthy.
6, natural vegetable juice vegetables contain a lot of nutrition, which is very healthy for children, especially if children don't like to eat vegetables, it is better to make it into vegetable juice to drink, and the effect is also very good. You can add some fruit to taste and avoid the green taste.
7, homemade hot chocolate burn a cup of hot milk, and then add one or two pieces of high-quality chocolate, which can make milk have a delicious taste. However, it is best to wait until the child is over 2 years old before giving him chocolate, because chocolate contains a small amount of caffeine.
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Second, the disadvantages of children drinking too many commercially available drinks 1, easy to be overweight. Most drinks still contain sugar, so the calories are very high. If children drink too many drinks, it is very easy to cause overweight and obesity, which is easy to cause diseases.
2, it is possible to sleep well. Children's favorite tea drinks, green tea, milk tea and black tea all contain caffeine. If caffeine is ingested too much, it will cause the phenomenon of rapid heartbeat, tinnitus and poor sleep.
3, affecting the height of children carbonated drinks contain caffeine and phosphorus, which will hinder the body from absorbing calcium, so if growing children drink too many carbonated drinks, they are afraid that they will not grow tall.
4, easy to form tooth decay because the drink contains a lot of sugar, it is easy to cause bacteria to remain in the teeth, and the drink affects the absorption of calcium, so the teeth are more fragile and it is easy to form tooth decay.