Europe 1 6:56 p.m., October 15, 2021

Breakfast and afternoon tea are two special moments in a child's day when it comes to eating.

Audrey Zucchi, author of "Hunger for beans" and guest of "Bienfait pour vous" on Europe 1, gives her perspective on the best practices to be applied on these sensitive issues.

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In the morning and in the afternoon, the great hunger of waking up and the little hunger pangs of the end of the day.

For children, breakfast and afternoon tea are not trivial when it comes to eating.

Precisely, what should be privileged before adolescence?

"A child of 6, 7 years old needs a lot of energy, so half of his diet will be made up of carbohydrates" with "carbohydrates that he will be able to integrate with a lot of fiber", explains Audrey Zucchi, author of

La Faim des haricots

and guest of

Bienfait pour vous

on Europe 1.

Egg, sheep yogurt, cottage cheese ...

Before moving on to the content of the plate (or bowl) itself, we must come back to the importance of breakfast: "Throughout the day, the body is on automatic pilot, that is. -To say that it secretes a certain number of hormones which will accompany physiological reactions. In the morning, cortisol and norepinephrine are secreted which will allow you to wake up, ”explains Audrey Zucchi. "The best breakfast is the one that will allow us to be able to potentiate all these hormones in our body."

According to the specialist, it is necessary to have "a breakfast that will be based on hydration, because it will be 9, 10 or 11 hours since the child has not drunk," she explains. she. Concretely, we must not "too many carbohydrates because in the morning, the body is very sensitive to insulin. And then, we will accompany the secretion of dopamine and norepinephrine with proteins. It can be an egg, a yogurt. sheep cheese, white cheese. You can have chocolate soy milk or small oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips. You can actually eat dried fruits and almonds without problem, or bake cakes made from flour or oilseed purees. It will be very good for them too ", she lists, with"pancakes or pancakes made from lupine, coconut or chickpea flour ".

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Chocolate to taste!

The changes are noticeable when the end of class bell rings.

Back from school, "chocolate is definitely recommended at this time," insists Audrey Zucchi.

"The snack is what will allow the children to regain their energy after an afternoon of learning. We therefore absolutely need carbohydrates with sweet snacks. We will also be able to prepare a calm evening by accompanying the children. hormones: serotonin, it is the hormone of calm and melatonin, which will intervene later, it is the hormone of sleep. fair trade banana which will really accompany these hormones, oilseeds, dairy products… We can make coconut rocks. "