Save your child from a lifetime of craving sugar

If you have lots of products with added sugar as a toddler, you will crave them later on in life, so it’s best to give a banana, rather than a chocolate biscuit, as a snack to your young child. — dpa

Almost everyone likes sweet foods, including – and maybe especially – young children.

But eating too many foods with added sugars, which have little nutritional value, is an unhealthy eating habit, and eating habits are formed early.