You may have eaten oats for breakfast. Or, a wholegrain sandwich during school break. Perhaps you ate potatoes, rice or macaroni for dinner last night? These foods are part of the starch family. Starch gives your body energy in the form of carbohydrates.They also provide a few vitamins and minerals.

Your middle finger represents the starch family. Like this finger is the longest of all five fingers, the starch food family is the one you’ll eat the most of – between six to eight servings in a day.

Just like a train needs power to run, your body needs energy nutrients to operate. The best way to get carbohydrates is by eating starchy foods like porridge, rice and bread.

Remember that the food you eat each day makes you grow into the healthy adult you’d like to be!

Remember that the other food families (dairy, vegetables and fruit, meat and meat alternatives and fats and sugars) have something unique to give to your body.