Let children say goodbye to the magical picture book of picky eaters and recommend these to you.

What is the hardest thing about being a mother? It's just a child's eating and drinking Lazarus! Especially eating, it's really hard!

It is necessary to ensure a balanced nutrition for children every day, and to ensure that the dishes cooked by children love to eat, and to take into account the tastes of other family members. The old mother who buys food and cooks, oh no, the nutrition regulator of the whole family is really bad!

so do we, and so do mothers in other countries in the world.

Children from different countries, because of different geographical location, different cultures and different parents' backgrounds, have a great dietary gap.

Photographer Gregg Segal traveled around the world and visited the United States, India, Malaysia, Germany, France, Italy, Senegal, United Arab Emirates and Brazil in three years, taking photos of all their foods for children from different cultures in a week.

Next, we will take you around to watch what children around the world are eating.

Frank Fadel Agbomenou, 8 years old

from Dakar, Senegal

Frank lives in a luxury community in Dakar. after his parents divorced, he lives with his mother, who is the organizer of parties and luxury banquets and is very busy. Frank has a chef at home who is good at cooking fish. Frank loves to eat, and he is almost a child who is not picky about food.

apart from fish, shrimp, staple food and fruit, Frank's weekly food also includes various snacks, such as chocolate sauce, drinks, potato chips, ice cream cones, etc. He is a well-fed child.

Meissa Ndiaye, 11 years old, comes from Dakar, Senegal

He is also from Senegal, but this child comes from a local slum. As you can see, what he eats every day is very different from the child from the local luxury residential area in front of him.

Most of his food is bread with spaghetti, peas or chips. At the same time, as a Muslim, he also eats goat meat and occasionally eats fish. Snacks are completely absent from his diet.

Adveeta Venkatesh, 1-year-old

from Mumbai, India

She is the only child in her family and lives with her family in a local high-class apartment. Adveeta is a vegetarian because of family factors, so she doesn't eat meat and is extremely picky about food. She hardly finished all the food in the picture. But she ate all the snacks and sweets in the picture. After the photo was taken, my father was surprised. I didn't expect my daughter to eat so many snacks a week.

Anchal Sahani, a 1-year-old girl from Mumbai, India

Anchal, also from Mumbai, lives in a small tin shed in a construction site on the outskirts of Mumbai. Her father earns less than $5 a day, just enough for her mother to prepare okra and cauliflower curry, lentils and barbecue.

She is eager to go to school and become a teacher when she grows up. However, the reality is that she must take care of her little brother at home and do housework. Family, on the other hand, loves little brother more.

when she has time, she will dress up, leave the construction site, enjoy jasmine flowers and lotus flowers, watch other children play cricket and run freely.

It can be seen that she seldom eats meat, green vegetables and fruits in a week, but the small particles that look like candy are actually just colorful chocolate wrapping paper she found on the roadside of the grocery store.

Del Grosso Sands, 6 years old

From California, USA

The little girl's diet is as colorful as a rainbow, and there are many kinds of fruits, vegetables and staple foods. But there are many snacks, such as popsicles, jelly, lollipops, cakes and so on. The little girl likes sweets very much and has many cavities.

Rosalie Durand, 1 years old

From Nice, France

The little girl's father is a chef in a restaurant, and he will prepare many healthy ingredients for his children. Because she is near the sea, she eats a variety of fish and shrimp. Dad will also teach children to make their own crepes, salads and lentil sausages. But Rosalie has her own absolute insistence. She doesn't like spinach and cucumber.

This little girl is one of the few children in this shoot who have good family conditions but don't eat snacks very much.

Kawakanih Yawalapiti, 9 years old

From Xingu District, Mato Grosso, Brazil

This little girl is a member of the local Yawalapiti tribe, and she lives in Xingu National Park, a protected area in the Amazon river basin of Brazil. There is no electricity and running water here. She spends most of her time playing in the river or helping adults with housework, such as digging cassava, making cassava flour and fishing.

Kawakanih's diet is very simple, mainly including fish, cassava, fruits and nuts. She said that if she was hungry, she would take the net to the river. It only takes five minutes to eat.

For her and her family, it is more important to carry forward their ancient and endangered saying in the tribe than to eat. She also goes to school in the city regularly, and she is also a little girl who likes reading history books very much.

I don't know if you have noticed the diet of children in so many different areas, although children in poor areas have fewer choices in diet than those in rich areas. However, they can't eat snacks as they like, but their diet structure is also very healthy. They rarely eat high-calorie, processed and refined food, and they are rarely picky eaters, because they are lucky to be full.

And Xiong Haizi around us, just like these children from wealthy families, has countless snacks every day, likes to eat high-calorie foods such as fried chicken, French fries and pizza, and has three meals a day, but it is always not so interesting.

Go for a ride. It is necessary to recommend some food and education picture books to mothers and read them with children, so that children can have a deeper understanding of food and increase their interest in food.

delicious vegetable soup

Sunday/guangchuan shayingzi

my grandparents sent fresh vegetables with dirt from the countryside. Mother makes vegetable soup for peanut, and peanut also helps. While helping, I couldn't help but have a taste. The sound of cooking came and the fragrance floated. Little peanuts couldn't wait! Who can refuse such a fragrant vegetable soup?

I will never eat tomatoes

English/Lauren Child

The book describes an interesting brother and sister-Charlie and Lola. Mom and Dad let Charlie coax Lola to eat, and Charlie used his rich imagination to make Lola willing to try food she didn't like.

when parents encounter food that their children don't like, they can also try the method of Charlie's brother in the picture book to guide their children to fall in love with food with their imagination!

There is a Railway Station in the Belly

This picture book of Germany/Anna Roesman

takes children to visit their own railway station in the belly, and tells them in an understandable and interesting way which foods are better for their health and which foods are best not to eat, so as to guide children to develop healthy eating habits.

Freda who is picky about food

English/Julia Jamaan Jamaan

Freda is a very picky little girl. No matter who cooked the food and where she brought it, she always felt terrible. Suddenly, another day, she became smaller and smaller, so small that a cat could swallow her.

After that, she asked her parents to eat all kinds of food, and finally changed back to her original appearance.

This book vividly describes a picky eater in a humorous and exaggerated way. And there is a dietary pagoda at the end of the book, telling children how to eat is the healthiest!

Chinese food on the plate

Chinese/Yu Hongcheng

Pursuing the life journey of a grain of rice and appreciating the long-standing farming culture! How did this picture book come from a bowl of rice, so that children can understand that the food in front of them is hard to come by, and they can cherish the hard work of farmers and cherish the food in front of them.

I recommend that children who don't like rice can read this picture book!

It is of great benefit to children's growth and development, and even their life-long health to let them form good eating habits, consciously reduce the intake of processed food and high-calorie food, and increase the intake of natural food.

let's take action! No matter whether you are poor or rich, you can have a healthier life by staying diligent and self-disciplined.

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