Vegetarian food sources help children increase height

Banana

Potassium in bananas helps regulate and balance water and electrolytes, maintaining normal cardiovascular, muscle, digestive, and urinary function. Manganese speeds up the absorption of food, supports calcium absorption, improves spinal bone density, and helps strengthen bone structure.

Nuts

The seeds are rich in minerals, essential vitamins, iron, magnesium, selenium, healthy fats and amino acids. These nutrients are essential for the development of growing children, stimulating growth hormones in the body. Parents can add nuts to breakfast or give them to their children as a snack.

Soybeans

Soybeans are rich in protein, folate, vitamins, carbohydrates, and fiber, suitable for children who do not like to eat meat. In addition to dishes such as tofu and boiled soybeans, parents can give their children milk. Soy milk has calcium to help strengthen bones and increase height. Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6, E in this drink help the body absorb nutrients to keep the body healthy, improve resistance, and reduce disease.

Green leafy vegetables

Broccoli, spinach, peas, and okra are rich in fiber, vitamins, and minerals like calcium. All these nutrients are necessary for your baby’s overall growth. If your baby cannot tolerate lactose in milk, green leafy vegetables are a good alternative because of their high calcium and vitamin K content, promoting bone development.

Fruit

Eating fresh seasonal fruit is good for your baby’s health because it contains many vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants. These nutrients have anti-inflammatory effects that support your baby’s overall health. The fiber, vitamins and minerals in fruit juice are not much, mainly in the discarded pulp. Therefore, children should eat raw fruits such as oranges, watermelons, mangoes, and apples. Parents should not add sugar to their children’s juice.

Carrot

Carrots provide vitamins needed to maintain calcium in bones. Carrots are rich in beta carotene which is converted by the body into vitamin A, important for the development of the retina and eye pigmentation. Vitamin A deficiency can lead to reduced vision. Parents can feed children boiled carrots, boil them in porridge, drink juice, or thinly slice them and mix them in salads.

Children need to limit their intake of sugar, salt, coffee, and carbonated drinks. These foods can negatively affect calcium absorption in the body. Children with poor eating habits are susceptible to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and osteoporosis.