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Good nutrition is fundamental for every child’s growth and development during, especially in their early years. At Sparkletots, we ensure that our children have a well-balanced diet by providing healthy and delicious meals everyday. Quality ingredients are used and every meal is low in sugar, salt and fat. 🍲🍛🍝

Meals served in Centre

• Food ingredients and seasoning used to prepare the children’s meals are low in sugar, salt and fat.
• Food are prepared with healthier cooking oil.
• Children are not served deep fried items at centre.
• Calcium rich food sources (e.g. milk, Calcium fortified soy milk, cheese, tofu) are served daily (CC/DS/EY) / twice a week (KN) to ensure children have sufficient calcium in their diet for building of strong bones and teeth.

Children are served with healthy meals from the 4 food groups during lunch:

• wholegrain carbohydrate staples
• skinless poultry / fish
• fruits
• vegetables

 



Recommended number of servings per day for children of different age groups.

Food groups	Recommended number of serving per day
	1-2 years old	3 – 6 years old
Wholegrain staples	2 – 3 serving	3 – 4 Serving
Meat & Alternatives	2 serving (1½ of which comes from dairy/calcium containing food)	2 serving (1 of which comes from comes from dairy/calcium containing food)
Fruits	½ – 1 serving	1 serving
Vegetable	½ serving	1 serving

*With reference from Health Promotion Board, the recommended number of servings a day

Example of 1 serving of food for various food groups for reference.

Food groups	Example of per serving
Wholegrain staples	2 slice of wholemeal bread (60g) ½ bowl rice (Rice bowl) (100g) ½ bowl noodle, beehoon or spaghetti (100g) 1 large potato (130g) 1½ cup plain cornflakes (40g) 4 plain biscuit (40g)
Meat & Alternatives	1 palm size of lean meat, skinless poultry or fish (90g) 2 small block soft beancurd (170g) ¾ cup cooked pulses (e.g. lentils, beans, peas) (120g)
Fruits	1 small apple, orange, pear or mango (130g) 1 wedge pineapple, watermelon, papaya (130g) 10 grapes or longan (50g) 1 medium banana
Vegetable	¾ mug cooked leafy vegetable (100g) ¾ mug cooked non leafy vegetable (100g) Raw leafy vegetable (150g) Raw non-leafy vegetable (100g) ¼ round plate of cooked vegetable (10-inch plate)
Dairy/ Calcium Containing Food	2 glasses of milk (250ml per serve) 2 slices of cheese

*With reference from Health Promotion Board, My Healthy Plate