The milk with cookies It is a classic snack among children. Three or four cookies accompanied by a cup of milk are a perfect food to recover energy until dinner time.
It is a very nutritious snack because it provides carbohydrates of cookies with proteins and milk fat, as well as vitamins A and D and minerals. But as our colleagues in Vitónica tell us, the key is in the choice of cookies since some children's cookies are a real calorie bomb.
Cookies with too much sugar are not convenient, since they are made with refined flours. If they also carry chocolate or butter this increases the fat content providing an excessive dose of calories. The fewer things cookies have, the better.
The most suitable for a children's snack are for example Maria type cookies They provide a high content of complex carbohydrates and are low in sugars and fats.
It does not mean that it is forbidden to have some chocolate cookies a couple of times a week, as long as the whole boat is not lowered. In order to avoid the feared childhood obesity, the problem is when this becomes a daily habit. If they are also accompanied by a glass of whole milk to which we add cocoa and sugar, bad.
If we seek to reduce the daily calories that the child ingests, in addition to offering some less fat cookies we can choose a semi-skimmed milk and avoid cocoa or spoonfuls of sugar.
