Define Nutritional requirements for Young and Older Children?
Young children need 3 en%, which would be easily met from 8-10 g of oil. However, more visible oil is needed to improve energy density of diets otherwise cereal based diets become bulky. ICMR (1990) recommends 20 g/d in children's diet from oil which has at least 20% linoleic acid. Finally, having gone through the discussion presented above, you must be thinking which oil should we select and consume on a daily basis i.e., what should be the ideal cooking medium. Let us read and find out for ourselves.