Healthy Family Nutrition Tips- Help your child to eat more fruit

A great deal of children get their fruit servings from juice. While 100% juice is good and full of vitamins, the problem is there is a lot of sugar. And your child could be getting the same servings with so much less calories.

I know. Can't we just be happy that they are getting fruit in their diet. Yes....and No. Sugar is just lurking in those juices and you might be surprised if you read the label. Combine that with the sugar they are probably getting from the cereal, and well, you wouldn't give them candy for breakfast. But guess what, combining the sugar from cereal and juice and they are getting as much as they would if you gave them candy.

Here is a way to move your child from drinking their fruit to eating their fruit.

• First, be patient, change takes time.
• Limit the juice, pour the small glass and put the juice back in the fridge. Out of sight, out of mind.
• Start diluting the juice with some water. You will be surprised how sweet the juice will taste after a week.
• Put cut up, peeled fruit, bite size on table for them to snack on
• Less juice, more fresh fruit options