Does your child get enough vitamin C in her diet?
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Vitamin C is an important nutrient every child needs. It helps protect against immune system deficiencies, cardiovascular diseases, eye diseases, helps repair tissues and decrease bad cholesterol in the body.
Does your child get enough vitamin C in her diet?
The U.S. Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) recommends children get at least the minimum required intake of vitamin C each day:
- Toddlers 1-3 years old, 15 mg per day
- Children 4-8 years old, 25 mg
- Children 9-13 years old, 45 mg per day
And the best way to do this would be through fruit like Halo’s sweet, seedless, mandarin oranges.
Grown in California, these sweet, non-GMO certified, easy-to-peel-by-little-fingers snacks hold approximately 50 calories per mandarin.
Baby Girl loves her Halos so I have to keep our pouch out of reach as she can go through a mandarin quicker than I can blink.
And yes, she can peel them independently too.
Halos have been in season since November and continue to be in season all the way till April. You can find these sweet citrus snacks at your local grocery store, mass and/or club retailer.
To celebrate #HALODays, our friends over at Halos have a fun gift basket packed with “wonderful goodness” up for grabs.
This includes a pouch filled with Halos mandarins, a branded light up cup, a hat, a drawstring backpack, lip balm, and a stress ball.
Enter for a chance to win a #HaloDays Gift Basket (Ends 1/15/2015)
Leave a comment below sharing a favorite way to eat Halos. (Besides eating it as is)
For me it would be incorporating the juice from a few Halos into these yummy Orange Marmalade Nut Muffins. You could even chop up the mandarins and add them, as is, instead.
Peel, and then add to your favorite green smoothie! It add a crisp, fresh flavor and tons of fiber and vitamin C!
I like putting them in cookie batter…
We enjoy eating halos in a nice cold fruit salad. So good.
I love to add them to a fennel salad with olives. One of my go-to, must-have dishes when Halos are in season!
My favorite thing to make a Halo with is a shake. Yes very yummy!!
I love using them in my home made Chicken Salad
I actually love halos, or mandarins, as a part of a salad!!
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My daughter and I like to cut them into chunks and put them in our oatmeal.
One of my favorite ways to eat Halos is making Hawaiian Tropical Delight using Halos,pineapple chunks, banana, coconut, marshmallow, whipped cream. Delicious!!
I like to eat them with some Greek yogurt
I love to add them to my asian salads…. I’ve also used them to make cupcakes before, the kids loved those! Ohh, fruit salad too… yum!
I like to add Halo mandarin segments and chopped walnuts to my mixed greens salad.
We like to add them to a green salad .
Thank you!
We use them for salads and the kids enjoy them when we use them for smoothies
Oh we put them in orange jello! The kids love it! Always tastes to good!
add them to vanilla yogurt
I love separating them into pieces and mixing with cottage cheese to eat.
I like to eat them just like they are. Just peel and eat.
I enjoy halos in salads and on ice cream or just by themselves.
I like adding them to my salad
I like to use fresh oranges in my orange chicken salad. Yum!
I really like them on my garden salad.
For Halloween, we had fun sticking pieces of celery in the center of the peeled Halos to make little pumpkins.