How many calories should I eat for breakfast?

Breakfast depends on each person's needs and preferences, but this is considered an important meal, helping to provide energy to maintain a new day.

An average adult needs to consume 1,600 - 2,000 Kcal/day, focusing on three main meals. Therefore, breakfast accounts for 30-40% of the body's total energy, balanced will be about 300-500 Kcal, the rest from other sources such as fruit, snacks, and snacks.

With 500 Kcal, you can try some popular dishes such as: Hue beef noodle soup, vermicelli with grilled pork, beef noodle soup, and pho with wine sauce. Fish noodle soup, beef noodle soup, and crab noodle soup are about 400 Kcal.

Porridge with offal, minced meat, bird porridge, chicken porridge... range from 250 Kcal for a full bowl. Sticky rice with meat, sticky rice with Chinese sausage... usually have more calories (about 600 Kcal).

For young children, a cup of powdered milk provides 300-400 calories, equivalent to a small bowl of pho, enough energy for children to be active, so you should balance eating and drinking.

Many people have the habit of eating rice noodles, pho, sticky rice, and bread for breakfast, but lack green vegetables. Therefore, it is necessary to consider adding vegetables to your dishes to diversify nutrition, with enough of the 4 groups of substances, including: starch, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals.

Preparing breakfast for your family is best, helping to better control the energy intake of family members, reducing the risk of obesity. Note that you should limit the reuse of leftover food.

A suggestion for breakfast is an egg sandwich or a slice of bread with fried eggs. The starch from bread combined with protein, fat from eggs and frying oil, vitamins and minerals from herbs such as papaya, tomatoes, cucumbers, and coriander, makes for a complete, varied, and balanced breakfast.

Popular foods such as sausages and donuts are classified as unsafe foods and are not good for health in the long run.