Key points:

• Vegetables give your child energy. Eating vegetables can also protect your child against chronic diseases.

• Children under eight years should have 2-4½ serves of vegetables each day.

• Help your child eat plenty of vegetables by setting a good example. Persistence and praise help too.

Useful link:

• Why eating vegetables is important for children

• 1. Set a good example with vegetables

• 2. Keep trying with vegetables

• 3. Use praise when your child tries vegetables

• 4. Get your child involved in cooking with vegetables

• 5. Offer vegetables as snacks

• 6. Go for vegetable variety, taste and fun

• 7. Get vegetables into meals in other ways