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nutritional guidance for early years:
food choices for children aged 1-5 years in early education
and childcare settings
annex 4 - children's fruit and vegetable portion
sizes
The portion sizes are derived from the portion size
guide for adults used in the Scottish Health Survey 2004
and the Health Survey for England 2003 - the portion size
for pre-school age children is suggested here and is
approximately two-thirds of an adult portion:
Vegetables (fresh, frozen or canned): | 50g, 2 tablespoons |
Pulses: | 50g, 2 tablespoons |
Salad: | half a cereal bowlful |
Vegetables in composites, such as vegetable
chilli: | 50g, 2 tablespoons per portion of the
recipe |
Banana: | 60g, 1 small |
Very large fruit, such as melon: | 1 small slice |
Large fruit, such as grapefruit: | quarter a fruit |
Medium fruit, such as apples: | 50g, half a fruit |
Small fruit, such as plum: | 40g, 1 fruit |
Very small fruit, such as blackberries: | 1 average handful |
Dried fruit: | 1/2 tablespoon |
Fruit in composites, such as stewed fruit in
apple pie: | 60g, 2 + tablespoons per portion of the
recipe |
Frozen fruit/canned fruit: | 60g, 2 tablespoons |
Fruit juice: | 1 small glass (150 ml) |
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