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Toddler Nutrition
Patient guidanceFood provides the energy and nutrients that young children need to be healthy. Toddlers are learning to feed themselves and to eat new foods. They should eat a variety of foods from all of the food groups.
Each day, toddlers need enough nutrients, including:
- 7 milligrams of iron
- 700 milligrams of calcium
- 600 IU of vitamin D
Why this: Advisory · medlineplus
Food provides the energy and nutrients that young children need to be healthy. Toddlers are learning to feed themselves and to eat new foods. They should eat a variety of foods from all of the food groups.
Each day, toddlers need enough nutrients, including:
- 7 milligrams of iron
- 700 milligrams of calcium
- 600 IU of vitamin D
- meta
- Food provides nutrients a young child needs to be healthy. You are the most important influence on your child when it comes to diet. Learn more.
- groups
- Children and Teenagers, Food and Nutrition
- group_ids
- 3, 26
- lang
- English