Children have already taken half the recommended sugar before going to school

The sugar is more present than we believe in our lives and in our food. There are few products that contain this ingredient and that make our diet incorporate levels higher than those recommended by nutrition specialists.

In fact, some health authorities, such as UK warn that the smallest of the house have already taken the amount of sugar recommended long before leaving home for school.

Beware of breakfast

Breakfast is a big part of this. This first meal of the day that should be composed of milk, cereals and fruit, sometimes it is replaced by industrial confectionery with high caloric levels and of course refined sugar. Although this ingredient is also present through other a priori harmless products.


Many of the packaged juices contain high levels of sugar, although many parents do not realize it and serve these drinks at breakfast thinking it is a natural juice when in fact it is not. The chocolate milkshakes and cereals They are also too present in the first menu that many children are at the table before leaving on the way to school.

The specialists express that the amount of sugar that a child must take throughout the day is of 19 grams for children between 4 and 6 years old, and 24 for those between 7 and 10. But as reflected in this report from the United Kingdom, these amounts are almost taken at breakfast and they do not take long to be consumed with the passing of the hours, as for example in the food that minors make At recess.


Beware of recess

If half of the recommended sugar is taken at breakfast, it is perhaps at recess that the recommended quota is reached. Many children take mid-morning again industrial pastries and other products with high levels of this ingredient such as packaged juices that many students take to accompany their snacks.

In addition some schools have cafeterias where trinkets are sold, which also suppose a too high contribution of sugar for the child. This, added to the dose that they brought from home, means that at the lunch young people should no longer take more of this ingredient or have already overstepped it. But this is not the case, when they return to their homes, the intake of this product continues.

Carbonated drinks, sauces, sweets, chocolates for the snack ... all these products that are very present during the rest of the day of the child again give him a new dose of sugar.


Remembering that half of the recommended amount had already been consumed at breakfast, perhaps before dinner it has already doubled or even tripled. Another reason that shows that there is take care of food of the smallest of the house.

Damián Montero

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