Juice?

[Lexie1970]

Just following on from thread about juice being demanded before bed.

When you talk about juice are you referring to fresh apple / orange juice or dilutable squash?

The reason I ask is that DS (5) very rarely has fruit juice but will have very diluted squash.

It seems that a lot of MNs think fruit juice is the devils drink :)

ys make sure mine has a Fruit Shoot before bed.

Me too, when i say juice I mean squash :)

Any drink after teeth cleaning is the devil's drink apart from water - that's why people are saying no juice on the other thread. Very diluted squash is still sugar water so not good before bed.

For me juice = fruit juice

Squash or cordial is the stuff you mix with water

Squash = Squash
Juice = Juice.

I grew up in Scotland, juice is any drink that isn't milk or water. I do differentiate nowadays by saying fizzy juice, fresh juice and juice (squash).

Juice = 100% juice.
Squash = the stuff you dilute with water

I agree with Voidka

Here's why we banned apple juice in our house.

My 3yo DD used to be wedded to her apple juice (as in juice) and I checked with the dentist who said it was ok as long as she drank it through a straw, so it goes behind the teeth. I take her for regular check-ups.

Anyway, we noticed that if she had too much of it, the juice started sending her a bit loopy (or rather the sugar in it) and after she had a bout of diarrhoea from it (yes really) we cut it out and now she just has water. She won't touch squash.

I noticed on the "poo chart" description in DD's nursery that they say diarrhoea can be caused by too much sugar or juice.

I´m with Voidka

I think its mostly awful stuff.

We will give our kids good quality fresh apple juice at breakfast and then brush teeth. Won't give juice during the day due to unhealthy sweetners, sugar or the natural sugar found in fresh juice. Not good for teeth or body. The exception is made for parties, visiting friends etc.

I do wonder just how good even fruit juice is though?

We do give fruit though at snack times though - so is that better than fresh fruit juice? Teeth wise?

Yes, fresh fruit is good, juice isn't regarding teeth - more to do with acids than sugar. I used to look after a dentist's child - no juice of any description ever.

When I say juice I mean juice.

Squash is squash.

Lots of people say juice when they mean squash. This is confusing.

Squash is horrible stuff.

Agree with Voidka

Squash = Squash
Juice = Juice

Simples. No?

Squash is not juice. Its rubbish.

We don't do juice. Or squash-juice. They're basically just sugar-delivery vehicles right?

Interesting - juice is a bit of a catch all phrase really ..........

For those of you that brush after drinking fruit juice just be aware that because of the acidic nature of fruit juice, brushing after can do more harm than good as you are brushing the acid into teeth. ( a dental nurse friend told me this)

dreaming sometimes children will not always drink water so fruit juice / squash that has been well diluted is better than no fluid at all?

Squash = squash
Juice = juice
Pop = fizzy shyte

I banned squash since it turned ds2 quite loopy. It also had an unfortunate effect on ds1's bowels. It also doesn't have any real refreshment values that I can see since it is, indeed little more than an artificially coloured sugar delivery vehicle.

I did allow small quantities of fresh orange juice at breakfast and used to buy Infinity Apple Juice which came as a concentrate which you diluted. I was a bit of an extreme diluter too. But after teeth and bed, water was the only drink on the menu.

Surely a bit of something they like...

I drink squash and juice - I'm normal sized and have normally healthy teeth. Why can't my 13mo DS drink what I drink? He has a normal amount of squash-juice, he has water too and I brush his teeth twice-a-day...

I DO get annoyed with the DONT DO THIS brigade for fear of maiming/disfiguring/crippling our DCs (humphy emoticom) !!!

No juice of any kind in this house. Fresh fruit=good, fruit juice=sugar. Milk or water, but only water after teeth/bedtime.

Lexie -- I guess I'm just going by what I had growing up, the only choices were water or milk.

As an adult I mostly just drink water or tea (and wine obvs!)

I'm not hard core about it, I'm not going to forbid DS to have juice at school or grandma's or whatever. I just think it's kind of a pointless drink and not really good for you so why bother?

I don't drink juice either (empty calories and bad for teeth) so I don't see that DD is suffering by missing out. The two times I tried to give her some for constipation she didn't want it. That made me think as well. You are supposed to give it for constipation but kids drink gallons of it normally.

ds has severe constipation and we have tried every remedy going and gave him diluted prune juice and apple juice but to no avail. now sticking with water and movicol i live on ribena light though

juice= fruit juice, full of natural sugars but still not great for teeth
squash= sugary flavoured concentrated drink but i love it