What’s in your baon?

How a lot sugar, salt, and fats are in your kid’s favourite store-bought snacks, and the way do these have an effect on their future well being?

MANILA, Philippines – Youngsters are sometimes choosy eaters, and selecting which snacks to ship them to highschool with generally is a problem. Getting ready their baon is dedication sufficient, however whether or not they would really eat what you put together for them is one other matter. So, many dad and mom and guardians — understandably — acquiesce to these tasty treats available in grocery shops.

However how a lot sugar, salt, and fats are in your youngster’s favourite store-bought snacks? How might these tasty treats have an effect on kids’s future well being? And the way would front-of-pack warning labels influence how we select these snacks? Steph Arnaldo talks to a gaggle of oldsters and their kids, and registered nutritionist Shay Castillo to search out out what actually is in our youngsters’ baon.

Watch this present, finished in partnership with the Wholesome Philippines Alliance, beginning on Monday, December 29, at 3 pm. – Rappler.com

Host, producer: Steph Arnaldo
Producer: JC Gotinga
Videographers: Leone Requilman, Camille Zarate
Video editor: Jen Agbuya
Manufacturing assistant: Ramil Cedeño
Graphics artists: David Castuciano, Sam Calleja
Supervising video editor: Emerald Hidalgo
Supervising producer: Beth Frondoso
Particular due to: Juno Reyes, Jasmine Payo