Mealtime with your toddler is often a combination of fun and frustration. It's fun to watch your growing baby try to enjoy new foods, but it's frustrating when he picks and chooses, often skimping on the most nutritious offerings, or when he is busier playing with his food than eating it.

Your toddler's picky eating habits may cause you to wonder whether he's getting all the nutrients he needs.

Extra insurance at mealtime
Your toddler needs a wide variety of foods to meet his nutritional needs. But when he's too busy to eat or picky about fruits, vegetables, and other solid foods, he may be coming up short on some important vitamins and minerals, especially iron. Most toddlers need 3 ounces of meat (or the equivalent of other iron-rich foods, such as cereals, breads, and beans) to meet their daily need for iron. But most toddlers don't eat enough iron-rich foods. In fact, iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in the U.S. affecting mainly older infants, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). That's why many toddlers can benefit from the nutritional insurance of continued formula-feeding even after the first birthday.

Formula choices for toddlers

When your toddler experiments with his food, you can supply his rapidly growing body with all the nutrients he needs by including an iron-fortified infant formula in his diet. NESTLÉ GOOD START 2 SUPREME DHA & ARA, which is specially designed for older babies and toddlers, is an ideal choice.

A Good Start for your older baby
GOOD START 2 SUPREME DHA & ARA provides the nutritional insurance you want for your older baby. That’s because it offers calcium, iron, and other important nutrients to meet the changing nutritional needs of older babies and toddlers 9 to 24 months, especially if there’s a gap between what they eat and what they need. GOOD START 2 SUPREME DHA & ARA provides:

50% more calcium than standard milk-based formulas to support growing bones, teeth, and the nervous system1 more of important nutrients like iron, zinc, DHA & ARA, and vitamins C and E both the gentleness of easy-to-digest COMFORT PROTEINS and DHA & ARA to support brain and eye development

A healthy alternative to cow’s milk
Until Baby is at least 1 year old, the AAP recommends avoiding cow’s milk, which doesn’t have the proper balance of nutrients your baby needs for growth and development. After 1 year, for babies who may not be eating a balanced diet, GOOD START 2 SUPREME DHA & ARA is a nutritious alternative to whole milk, as it offers more of important nutrients like iron, zinc, DHA & ARA, and vitamins C and E, while also providing the calcium that a growing toddler needs.

1 Standard formulas provide adequate nutrition for the first year. GOOD START 2 SUPREME DHA & ARA provides nutrition insurance.