How do you get your children to understand the importance of good nutrition and adopting healthy eating habits? It’s a question every parent faces. With so many junk food options available, it can be a challenge to get your kids to eat­—and enjoy—the foods that are good for them.

Fortunately, these apps, websites, and resources for parents and kids can help your children understand why their growing bodies need good fuel and what they should eat to stay fit and healthy.

1. My Food: Nutrition for Kids

My Food: Nutrition for Kids is an app designed for children aged four and older to learn about the origins of their food. Beautifully designed with interactive graphics, it’s packed with great information about food, nutrition, and how digestion works in the human body. Children can learn how to eat a well-balanced meal by exploring plates of food and building their own sandwiches. They can even experiment with growing their own food by completing a herb-growing challenge that they can document by taking pictures and recording audio within the app.

Children narrate everything, so My Food can be used by kids with limited reading skills. And it’s easy to select a vegetarian option from the app’s settings. My Food has plenty of content to keep your children engaged, although you could expect to receive more challenges and tasks from a paid app.

Download: My Food: Nutrition for Kids for iOS ($2.99)

2. Grow Garden

Grow Garden is a great way to get children excited about organic gardening and how to grow healthy vegetables sustainably. Children plant seeds in the Grow Garden, water their plants, watch the crops grow, and see how the weather affects them.

When it’s time, they harvest their crops, feed the animals, and collect the leftover scraps for composting. This lets them boost their Grow Garden with nutritious soil. Along the way, your children collect rewards and badges while learning about the environment in a simple, entertaining app suitable for young learners.

Download: Grow Garden for iOS ($3.99) | Amazon ($0.99)

3. Wello: Healthy Habits for Kids

Wello is a free app that gamifies better nutrition for your kids, making it fun for the whole family to develop healthy eating habits.

Wello allows your whole family to track and record their eating habits and physical activity and to follow a tailored nutritional plan. Alternatively, there are lots of great food diary apps. Learn about healthy eating from the Wellopedia section and complete interactive challenges along the Wello roadmap to earn rewards.

Wello aims to be a nutrition companion for the whole family to enjoy. It is beneficial for parents of children who are overweight to inspire and support them to change their habits and lead healthier lifestyles.

Download: Wello for iOS | Android (Free)

4. Cookbook Junior

There are many great cookbook resources for kids, and cookbook apps can make it easy for your child to browse and find ideas for dishes they’d like to try. Cookbook Junior contains a variety of healthy recipes from around the world, with simple step-by-step instructions your child can follow to make them (with parental supervision for some recipes).

You can download and print recipes for offline use and add ingredients to a shopping list that you can share with others. The app claims to contain over two million recipes, but you’ll need to subscribe to access them all. You can also try these meal-planning apps for healthy eating.

Download: Cookbook Junior for Android (Free, subscription available)

5. Recipes for Kids

Recipes for Kids is another cookbook for children. The interface is colorful and engaging, and the catalog of recipes includes tasty and nutritious dishes. Like Cookbook Junior, you can download and print recipes, save favorites, and create shopping lists.

This app is free, although the constant ads are irritating, and you’ll need to upgrade to a paid subscription to avoid them. Try these free healthy cooking apps as an alternative.

Download: Recipes for Kids for Android (Free, subscription available)

6. Color Quest AR

Color Quest is an augmented reality app from Stayhealthy that allows your children to color healthy vegetables and watch them come to life. They can take pictures of themselves with their creations and share them with their friends. Each image comes with fun facts about the character.

All the time, your kids are learning about health and nutrition. As they unlock characters, they can win badges and compete in bonus games to become a Magic Health Master. This app provides a fun, free challenge for your children, with AR features to make it stand out from the pack. Subscribe for premium access, and check with your healthcare provider to see whether you can access Color Quest Premium for free.

Download: Color Quest AR for iOS | Android (Free, in-app purchases available)

7. The Human Body by Tinybop

To help your child learn why good nutrition is essential, they’ll need to understand how the human body works. And there’s no better way to learn about the human digestive system than through The Human Body app from Tinybop.

The Human Body is an interactive app that lets you play and interact with an interactive model of the human body that allows you to see everything that goes on inside us. Kids can click to explore and learn how we digest our food, complete with plenty of burps and farts! The Human Body is beautifully presented and is a superb example of a modern educational app.

Download: The Human Body for iOS ($3.99, in-app purchases available)

8. Disney Healthy Living

The Disney Healthy Living website is a fantastic resource for fun activities, videos, and recipes for families. With recipes based on their favorite Disney movies, such as The Lion King Simba Spaghetti and Star Wars Get Galactive X-Wing Hot Wings, your kids will love cooking healthy food. They can also watch a range of Be Your Best Snackdown videos to learn how to make healthy snacks.

Then, you can download the accompanying Nutrition Check sheets to explore yourself or teach your kids about the nutrients their creations contain.

9. SuperKids Nutrition

SuperKids Nutrition is a website packed with nutritional information and recipes for you and your child. Created by pediatric nutritionist Melissa Halas, SuperKids breaks down nutritional advice and meal plans into age ranges, so it’s easy for you to find appropriate information and recipes for your child. Find fun activities and SuperKids coloring sheets to help your children learn about nutrition.

10. Nourish Interactive

You’ll find lots more printables at Nourish Interactive, where you can download tracking sheets for everything from food groups to food safety. Every activity sheet shows the age range and US grades it’s been designed for, and it’s all completely free and unlimited. You can also find great food charts for kids at Osmo.

Help Your Children Develop Healthy Eating Habits

With these apps and web resources, you have lots of tools to help you to encourage your children to learn about where their food comes from, what they should eat to remain healthy, how their body digests their meals, and even what they can cook for your dinner tonight! These are just some of the many fantastic ways to help your kids develop a positive outlook on food for life.