Children's health food is not a "panacea"

Kondechi

At present, many children's gummy products on the market advertise a variety of effects
such as "strengthening bones", "protecting eyesight", "increasing immunity" and "promoting appetite".
These vitamin and fish oil gummy products aimed at children's consumer groups have quietly become popular
on the consumption segment.
On the e-commerce platform, the monthly sales volume of some children's health food gummies has reached thousands or even tens of thousands, and the single product evaluation has exceeded 500,000
.
Can these flowery gummies really solve children's "picky eating", "poor memory" and "not growing" and other growth problems?

Some experts remind that children's health food gummies are mostly ordinary foods under the guise of health food, but in fact, the health care function is limited, and there may be potential safety risks
.
In addition, we must also be wary of some illegal enterprises and businesses seizing this psychology, exhausting all kinds of fooling methods, wantonly exaggerating the efficacy of health food, and even illegally adding ingredients, packaging health food as an omnipotent "panacea", consumers should avoid falling into the "health food misunderstanding", and even "make up" more problems
.

No matter what kind of health food, at best, it is only a food
that promotes in some way.
Neither can you listen to advertising and marketing blindly take, let alone treat it as three meals a day
.
In fact, blind supplementation of nutritional products is not conducive to the healthy growth of children, and improper use may cause harm to the child's body, so it needs to be scientifically and reasonably intaked
under the doctor's advice.

As experts say, reasonable arrangement of children's three meals a day, sufficient nutrition and variety is the most scientific health care
for children.
In real life, it is not difficult to find that children who eat "nutrients" with all meals a day are not necessarily healthier and more resistant to the nuisance
of diseases than children who eat whole grains every day.
Instead of blindly superstitious health food, it is better to let the excellent traditional healthy eating habits return rationally, usually let children eat more vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs and milk, and get enough nutrients
from natural foods.

In the face of the sedimentary children's food market, the regulatory authorities cannot let parents open the "blind box", while vigorously rectifying, it is necessary to accelerate the introduction of relevant regulations, polish the "eyes" of supervision, and guide the orderly development of
the industry.

China Food News(December 28, 2022, Version 06)

(Responsible editor: Zhu Meiqiao)