to not understand what is wrong with fruitshoots?

[PutAnotherShrimpOnTheBarbie]

There seems to be alot of bad comments and remarks about fruitshoots, am I missing something?

i was being tongue in cheek, i don't let dd have them either

Its not full of suger, its full of sweateners which is even worse than sugar. My dd's drink them if we go to McDonalds but i wouldn't let them drink them at home.

Have you actually tried one? if you did you would know how bad they taste, they are rancid.

I dislike them as they are marketed as being healthy, and people seem to think that they are just juice. But the ingredients list is pretty grim.

Strawberry flavour ingredients:
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)

A Fruit Shoot contains 10% juice. What is wrong with normal juice? It's healthier and cheaper.

Would eating a fruitshoot be on a par with drinking Sunny Delight?

"its full of sweateners"

I don't usually like drawing attention to spelling errors but "sweateners" was just too funny Am imagining a profusely-sweating kid on his fifth Fruit Shoot of the day...

I let DS drink one about once a month. Usually if we're out doing the food shopping. But he always has a little bag of grapes and chopped apple to offset the badness.

The normal ones taste like shite and are full of sweetners.

I really like the Hi5 ones though.

they are made by imps in the deepest darkest depths of hell and sealed with satans approval

I'm not a food fascist, but I really do dislike Fruit Shoots. I don't want my kids getting used to that rank chemical taste. I'd much rather they had either water, pure fruit juice or full sugar diluting juice.

At least you know what sugar does to the body, unlike all the chemical shite in FruitShoots and other "no-added sugar" drinks.

Oh and they bring DS2 out in terrible eczema as well.

It's so easy and cheap to make a '10% fruit juice drink' at home by adding a dash of pure fruit juice to tap water and sticking it in a receptacle of your choice when going out (Tommee Tippee cup, sports bottle, whatever).

We've always taken these to pubs restaurants and cafes, who don't object as long as we're spending on adult drinks, and food and snacks for both adults and children. There's no need to feel pressured into buying the shit drinks that places usually have on offer for kids. If the kids insist, tell them Fruitshoots contain dog wee or something [cwink]

Bad, bad, mummy - DDs and DH drink gallons of squash with sweeteners in at home so the odd fruit shoot is hardly a crime. DD1 will drink water, milk, juice in fact anything except coke. DD2 will not drink water or plain milk or most juice. Squash, apple juice or Coke are about it, Why because I breast feed her for years and breast milk is sweet, that's why (Oh and she's a stubborn little madame, but thats another thread).

I think it started when BBC had a programme where they looked at food marketed for kids that were really quite unhealthy, and Fruit Shoots were one of these items. I do find it laughable that at lots of establishments the junk is provided for kids while the healthy items (which often taste better) are given to adults. My child often ends up eating our food, while the Fruit Shoots and additive-filled biscuits are packed into our "emergency stash" - the sort you leave in your car in case you're stuck on the motorway during the snow or something......

Not really getting the breast fed theory tbh ...

Quite simply, they taste awful. I won't touch aspartame at all, and neither will my children now. The flavour is far too strong. Stick to fruit juice or water.

I am not particularly precious but I really don't like DD1 to have them - they send her loony, probably because of all the crap. She loves the bottles though so I just fill them up with diluted juice and see if I can play "spot a MNer with her judgypants on". I am sure I spotted a MNer in Costa the other day because as her DD reached for the fruitshoot bottle she screached "not a fruitshoot darling. anything but a fruitshoot".

Do people really believe they're healthy cos they've got the word fruit in the title? Seriously?

So by the same token, apple pie and strawberry slush puppies are healthy?
I don't kniw a single person who thinks they're remotely healthy, but I also don't know a single person thats as arsey about them as some of the posters here! They are what they are - they're a bit better for you than diet coke, and nowhere near as healthy as fruit juice . I personally wouldn't buy them cos they're so bloody expensive!

I know they are full of sweetners but does that mean that no one else gives their children squash? I do give ours squash, but also lots of water and watered down fruit juice and homemade fruit juice so as witha ll things I think most things are OK in moderation. Only issue i have with Fruit Shoot is that they tast really strong. If we are somewhere were LO catch sight of them and want one I tend to neck about half of it and then refill the bottle with water to dilute it! But then I like weak squash...

YABU children should not be given chemicals disguised as fruit juice. They confuse the palate and make real fruit and veg taste comparably less sweet. At least coke is not marketed as a health tonic, people know what they're buying.

I can't stand any soft drinks, don't even like sugar in my tea or coffee. I buy the six pack of water bottles at sainsburys at the beginning of each term and refill them with er... water. The kids never complain, they like water, milk or decaff tea. I buy proper fresh orange as a treat very occasionally.

aspartame is not dangerous, that's a complete myth.

[http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy]

No. No squash.

oops, sorry for the crap links.

www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

Nearly all squashes have metabisulphites in which make some asthmatics wheeze, and trigger allergies. I never buy them.