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Table 1.2.1 Food groups and recommended daily servingsa

Recommendations

Food groups Foods included Main nutrients Infants 6–12 months Toddlers and School children
Group 1: Bread, rice Bread, chapatti, breakfast supplied 3–4 servings a day preschoolers 5–18 years
potatoes, pasta and other cereals, rice, couscous, pasta, 1–4 years
starchy foods millet, potatoes, yam, and foods Carbohydrate
made with flour such as pizza B vitamins Serve at each meal Serve at each meal and
Group 2: Fruit and bases, buns, pancakes Fibre and some snacks some snacks
vegetables Some iron, zinc
Fresh, frozen, tinned and dried and calcium 3–4 servings a day Offer at each meal Serve at each meal and
Group 3: Milk, cheese and fruits and vegetables and some snacks some snacks – aim for 5
yogurt Vitamin C – about 5 small servings a day
Breast milk, infant formulas, Phytochemicals servings a day
follow-on milks, cow’s milk, Fibre
goat’s milk, yogurts, cheese, milk Carotenes Demand feeds of 3 servings a day 3 servings a day
puddings, toddler milks, calcium- breast milk or infant 1 serving is:
enriched soya milks, tofu Calcium formula as main 1 serving is: – 150–250 mL milk drink
Protein milk drink (decreases – 1–2 pots yogurt (120 g)
Iodine from about 1000 mls/ – 120 mL milk drink – a serving of cheese in a
Riboflavin day down to about sandwich or on a pizza
500 mls/day as food – 1 pot yogurt – a milk-based pudding
Group 4: Meat, fish, eggs, Meat, fish, eggs, nuts and Iron in take increases) (120 g) – a serving of tofu
nuts and pulses pulses (lentils, dahl, chickpeas, Some yogurt and
hummus, kidney beans and Protein cheese – a serving of cheese 2 servings a day or 3 for
other similar starchy beans) in a sandwich or on vegetarians
Zinc 1–2 servings a day a pizza Fish should be offered
2–3 for vegetarians twice per week and oily
Magnesium – a milk-based fish at least once per
pudding weekb
B vitamins
– a serving of tofu
Vitamin A
2 servings a day or 3
Omega 3 long- for vegetarians
chain fatty acids:
EPA and DHA Fish should be
from oily fish offered twice per
week and oily fish at
least once per weekb