Sliced bread or traditional bread, which is the healthiest for children?

Since the appearance of bread loaf, this bread of spongy and easy to chew consistency has become the ally of parents both when offering a snack for the snack and a toast for the breakfast of the little ones - and not so small - of the house. However, although bread and traditional bread have similar

However, although bread and traditional bread have similarities, they also have differences. Before the choice of traditional bread or bread, we tell you which is the healthiest for children.

Sliced bread or traditional bread for children, which one to choose?

A priori, sliced bread is a little or less recommended option than the second for children. Why?

- Sliced bread is made not only with the basic ingredients of bread - flour, water, yeast and salt - but also with fats, animals or vegetables, sugars, as well as preservatives or additives, antifungals for example, for ensure its duration beyond what a normal bread lasts. The precooked loaves, bars or baguettes, usually also carry extra ingredients, such as milk or vegetable oils, as well as seeds and / or nuts.

- The fats present in the mold bread are usually saturated and / or hydrogenated or with trans fatty acids, and are generally used to make the texture of the bread mold soft and fluffy. These fats do not benefit at all the health of our children, and even less if they are taken in excess, such as taking several slices of bread daily.

- Due to the fat content, bread is characterized by being more caloric than the same amount of normal bread. Even though there are many varieties of sliced bread, with or without crust, integral or multigrain, half white half integral, with or without seeds, etc, they all contribute an average of around 250 Kcal / 100 g of bread. However, although it is important to know the calories provided by each slice, it is more important to check its fat content, the less the better, and the lower the percentage of saturated or trans fats, the healthier.

- The carbohydrates in bread are slow-absorbed, coming from the flours used in their preparation-better if they use whole grains than refined flours. However, bread mold, in addition to these hydrates, contains simple sugars, which are not recommended for health in general, and for oral health in particular. In addition, in the line of oral health, bread mold does not help at all to the development of the mouth of children, rather it interferes, harming it. Bearing in mind that when introducing complementary feeding many babies eat purees and it is difficult for them to acquire the ability to chew, this becomes even more complicated if the sandwiches that our children eat are made with sliced bread.

While it is true that bread is less recommendable than bar bread, there is nothing like the bread of a traditional bakery, which, unlike precooked bread, is only made with the basic ingredients.