A tiny bag of harribo and multi vitamin is healthier than a little box of raisons

[Southglosmum]

Another other mum thought this was rubbish, but the harribo have less cals, are less sticky so cause less tooth decay and don't get stuck between the teeth, have more vitamins and most importantly fill a child up more and leave them satisfied. So far as I'm aware they area healthier choice right?

I sort of know what the OP is saying.
People will happily give th err or children LOT of dried fruit
which is basically sugar.
They think they are being healthy.

Also , the process used to dry some fruit can strip it of any vitamins.

So basically you are feeding them small lumps of sugar.

A handful of haribo and a vitamin would be healthier.

Yes but by that logic a vitamin and just about anything would be 'healthier'. A vitamin and a cardboard tube. A vitamin and rabbits droppings.

One for one, a raisin is better than a Haribo. One hasn't even got a real name for exactly what it is, because it's not a real food. You're eating a brand.

My kids have them at parties etc when they're given them. They're not 'healthy' but that's ok occasionally. Day to day they have dried and fresh fruit and veg, tea cakes, rice cakes sometimes actual cake as snacks, cheese, ham... Teeth intact, growing, have energy, no constipation, not overweight, no extra vitamins required.

This stuff isn't that difficult really, without all these pointless dichotomies between this or that. It's the overall picture, not whether on nanny given day this is 'healthier' than this or that.