Nutrition and wellbeing

Parents are often faced with a dilemma at breakfast time between the importance of their child eating something versus wanting their child to eat something healthy and nutritious. High sugar cereals and breakfast bars are often the ones that tempt children. In this section we share with you some interesting facts about why breakfast is such a great way to help your children to get essential vitamins and minerals.

Top 6 Breakfast nutrients

Learn more about the top 6 nutrients that are in your breakfast, what they do and how to include them.

10 positive effects

There are so many reasons to start your day with a healthy breakfast and make it part of your morning routine – find the top 10 here.

What's in your cereal bowl?

Find out what nutrients are in your bowl of cereal. It will probably surprise you how nutritious your cereal can be!

Sugar and breakfast

Many parents are unsure what makes up a healthy breakfast and can find it confusing. Research found that 84% of parents whose child was consuming the equivalent of 3 or more sugar cubes in their breakfast considered their child’s breakfast to be healthy (PHE, 2017). Below we show you which options are low, medium and high in sugar to help you choose the healthier options.

Factsheets

Find here fun nutritional information, quizzes and facts on calcium, iron, vitamin D, B vitamins and fibre.