It is better for the elderly to eat foods rich in protein, carbohydrates and vitamins for breakfast. The elderly can eat eggs, milk, soy milk and other protein-rich foods in the morning, as well as lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, strawberries, apples, bananas and other vitamin-rich vegetables and fruits, these foods can supplement nutrients for the body. In addition, the elderly breakfast can also eat buckwheat, oats, corn, purple rice, sorghum, millet and other coarse grains of food, these foods are rich in dietary fiber, and dietary fiber in coarse grains can promote gastrointestinal motility. Elderly people eat light and easy to digest food in the morning is also better, such as millet porridge, yam porridge, red bean porridge, mung bean porridge, noodles and so on. The elderly should pay attention to nutritional balance in the morning, should not be a long-term single intake of a food. In addition, the elderly in the morning to eat less fried chicken, fried food such as doughnuts, because the elderly gastrointestinal tract digestive function is poor, eat too much fried food, easy to abdominal pain, abdominal distension and other gastrointestinal discomfort.