to not know what's wrong with Fruit Shoots?

[asouthwoldmummy]

I should point out that DS doesn't have them.

But most MNers seem to be against fruit shoots and I don't actually know what's wrong with them.

Am I right in assuming that's it's because they contain aspartame or is there more to it than that?

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Sorry my post is full of typos and grammar errors This is what comes of me trying to mumsnet with 2 toddlers at home.

I only allow my DC to drink water or milk at home, always have done. However, they are allowed a fruit shoot if we are out. I don't think the occasional one will kill them. I couldn't care less about the marketing, I am able to read the ingredients so I know what's in them.

My friend will never let her DC have a fruit shoot if we treat them to a Macdonalds. However, she will let them have a milkshake, which surely can't be any better?!

midori1999 it might be due to the sugars making them hyper, whereas the lard in the milkshake doesn't?

Got to say i've giggled at the 2 yr old beating mum up on fruit shoots and the one who wet herself. This stuff sounds hardcore!

midori - I dread to think what's in a mcdonalds milkshake!

Potato, IIRC (although that may have been an urban myth when I was younger...)

Aww...

The full ingredients of the milkshake base (before specific flavouring) are: Milk, Sugar, Whey Powder, Glucose Syrup, Cream (40% butterfat), Stabiliser (Guar Gum, Carageenan (standardised with sugar)), Dextrose, Carob Gum. The milk used is whole milk containing 3.5% fat.

Another cherished factoid bites the dust. Although I suppose they may still have contained potato starch thirty years ago...

I don't let my DC's have them because they have a lot of chemicals in them, would rather they had water or plain juice

Well, apparently the milkshakes contain 34g of sugar per serving, which seems a lot and is more than coke.

I have never met all these children who vomit on the mere sip of a fruit shoot (or on the other thread, a cup of tea) or become so hyperactive they are literally bouncing off surfaces. I've seen children drink them at parties and behave quite normally. Have I got the wrong brand?

Not sure why anyone would buy them EVER when you can buy tesco value 3x 200ml pure apple or orange juice for 37p.

Where to start - I wouldn't let my kids have aspartame as I don't think its a food(!) and contain lots of chemicals.

Apple/orange juice does contain sugar but its fructose. Anyway my kids mainly drink water - or sometimes apple juice/orange juice. I have never bought fizzy drinks or squash.

"Anyway my kids mainly drink water - or sometimes apple juice/orange juice. I have never bought fizzy drinks or squash."

Bloody hell. Come and tell me how you managed that after you've finished polishing your halo.

My children only drink water or milk too. I don't mind my 3 year old having other drinks as an occasional treat at parties ( I don't want her to feel left out) but I want to protect her teeth & would prefer both my children to be filling-free like my husband (rather than totally filled-up like me!)

One word ..Aspartame

My DDs genuinely like water or fruit juice better ..although they wont turn their noses up and will happily suck on a FS..I do buy Ribena when it's on special offer..not too hot on milk unless its got cereal floating in it

I bought one for myself a couple of years ago as I was thirsty and thought it was a fruit drink.
Disgusting, couldn't drink it, for that reason I won't give to my ds.

cupcakes my ds is the same only really drinks water or milk, simply because I never offered him anything else.

He would now and again pick up someone elses cup and screw his face up if it was juice.
Just recently he has started to not mind it as he picks my drink up but I always put water in his drinking cup.
He's 2 1/2.

My DD drank three fruit shoots at a birthday party and went completely nuts. I had to practically drag her into the car like a drunken teenager (she was 4 at the time!). She bit me, scratched me and then somehow wedged herself in the rear passenger footwell of the car and refused move. She clung onto the seat so tightly, she left nail prints in the leather.

Still can?t be 100% sure it was the fruit shoots but she?s never done anything like it since?!

Can't see the problem meself - how else will DS wash down his Greggs sausage roll??

What's wrong with the new My 5 ones? It is one of their 5 a day and there is no sweeteners in them at all. Yes, there will be natural sugars of course. Nothing artificial at all. You can't object to them surely?

Whenever mine have them, they go nuts about 20 mins later.

Robinsons Fruit Shoot certainly looks like it's full of healthy strawberry juice, but it only contains 10% juice.

The actual ingredients are: Water, Strawberry juice, Flavouring, Citric acid, Acidity Regulator (Trisodium citrate E331), Preservatives (Potasssium sorbate E202, Dimethyldicarbonate E242, Sodium Benzoate E211), Vitamins (C, Niacin, Pantothenic acid, B6, D, B12), Sweeteners (Aspartame, Acesulfame K) Stabiliser (Xanthan gum), Colour (Anthocyanins E163)

www.foodcomm.org.uk/parentsjury/Food_label_fibs.htm

I think some companies try to trick people into thinking their products are healthy when clearly they are not.

My 5 ingredients - fruit juices from concentrate (apple 61%,pear 14%, grape 8% lemon 3%, water, natural apple and pear flavourings, vitamin C

What's wrong with that?

It sent my boy doofuckinlally as well...my sister found this hysterical but the massive comedown was actually quite disturbing and he was restless during the night as well.

I allow him water, milk, an occasional drop of weak cordial and his treat of choice is a banana Yazoo which I can't imagine being any more 'healthy' or 'nutritious' than the ol' fruit shoot but it doesn't have him bouncing off the walls or head-butting the cat.

His eczema breaks out if I allow him pure or fresh juice unfortunately.

I ban very little but when my kids were younger these were about the only thing I banned.

They taste utterly revolting, the list of ingredients make me want to weep and they sent my kids into some sort of overdrive.

Now they are older, they get the VERY occasional one. Perhaps 1-2 a year.

Frankly I'd rather they bloody drank a can of diet coke.

I ban very little as well. DD drinks tea ffs and I know that's a hanging offence on here . But I wouldn't every buy one for her because they're so full of shite. If we're out and she wants a drink that isn't water or milk, then she can have juice.

I would never give my son the old fruit shoots but the new ones are fine, and no, I don't work for Robinsons