For school-age children, a nutritious breakfast is very important. First, if you eat too little breakfast or have insufficient intake of some nutrients, it will make it difficult to concentrate in class, or you will be hungry before noon and have no good study status. Second, children are in a rapid growth period and need adequate nutrition supply to meet their physical development. Breakfast accounts for one-third of the daily diet, so we must eat well. So for school children, is it better to eat rice or millet porridge in the morning?

both are good, and neither is good. the key lies in what food to match. Because no matter whether it is rice or millet porridge, the main nutrients provided are carbohydrates. Although the trace elements such as iron and magnesium in millet are slightly higher than those in rice, there is not much difference in nutritional value between boiled millet and dried rice. Then let's talk about the key issues. What food should we eat with it?

It is not reasonable to drink millet gruel with pickles and salted duck eggs, or to eat rice with vegetables.

So in fact, you can eat both millet gruel and rice. After all, you can't eat the same staple food every morning. You can eat it instead.

When eating rice, you can give children a cup of milk or soybean milk, an egg, and a vegetable (rich in various vitamins and minerals), which is an ideal combination. There are rare dried food, protein (with strong satiety), dietary fiber, and carbohydrates (for brain function), and the nutrition is sufficient and reasonable.

When drinking millet porridge, because it is already thin, you can choose whether to add milk or soybean milk according to your habits, but an egg is still necessary. At the same time, porridge has less dry goods, so you can add some other staple foods in moderation, whether it is steamed buns, steamed buns, cakes, steamed sweet potatoes, yams, etc. Of course, individuals recommend potato staple foods, which have higher nutritional value, and vegetables are still needed, cold or stir-fried.

Of course, except millet porridge and rice as the staple food, other foods such as miscellaneous grains porridge, vegetable porridge and fish/lean meat porridge are all acceptable.

In short, a balanced breakfast needs a proper amount of protein and vegetables to make up for the deficiency of various nutrients in the staple food. Following this principle, mothers can use their intelligence to freely match and choose according to the actual situation.