to not understand the fuss about FruitShoots

[chaostrulyreindeers]

I would always rather my DCs had water or fruit juice.

i do let them have squash (well-diluted). surely Fruit shoot is just squash.

Why does everyone on MN treat it like the plague. Please tell me so I can make some parenting decisions.

As far as I know, phenylalanine isn't a problem unless you have an inherited disorder called PKU, when you don't have the enzyme needed to break it down. Which is why they put "contains source of phenylalanine" on the bottles, so people with PKU can avoid it.

Don't know if I am being really dense, but what is wrong with reheated rice? And Mr Whippy ice cream? I'm not really a fan of it myself but I don't know whats wrong with it.

Unusually high risk of food poisoning. Higher than chicken or fish, for eg.

ive never read a fruit shoot bottle, but once i forgot ds drink when out for a family meal, dp asked at the bar what was available, fruit shoots, oh ok, just squash surely and its a bottle easy for him.

wrong

complete syco for the rest of the time out, it sent him loopy!!!

a few months later Grandma had him and treated him, same reaction, and hes never reacted like this to sweets and so on that the gps give him!

without mumsnet or any other facts the way he reacted makes them bad imo! must be fulla shite!

I knew the rice thing! [smug]

But what's up with mr whippy? mine normally have mini milks or cider lollies (yum) from the ice cream van, but I didn't know I had to avoid the ice cream!

similar

I am not against DS having small amounts of many dubious things but fruit shoots are one of the few things that sent him

LOOPY

so after a couple we banned them on that basis!

Much more potent than sweets or cakes, although I don't think he has ever had anything else with 25g of sugar per 100g in it. I still suspect there's another additive in them.

my kids will have a fruit shot every now and again but they prefer milk and water. i keep the fruit shot bottles and fill them with water. the kids think they have a fruit shot and drink more water this way!!!!!!!!!! wonder how long i can fool them???!!!

fruitshoots= expensive squash imo. But marketed a la Sunny D as a healthy alternative to sugary drinks (hahaha). If you don't mind buying ready made-up squash for you child, at a massive premium vs bringing your own, then that's up to you. Everything wrong with asaic, not least that the marketing bods seem to take parents for phules.

Relax - if the kids like them let them drink them, the human body is perfectly capable of dealing with the sugar etc.

It's one of those things that we won't win with. I've avoided giving mine fruit shoots more because they do like milk and water, and I don't want them to get a taste for coke or anything like it. They do love pure apple juice, so they do have that from time to time.

I don't know...the ingredients are a little scary, and I don't like the artificial sweeter thing myself, so I guess I just steer my DCs away from it, too. They are only 3 and 2, so I know that eventually, when they go to school and parties and stuff, that stuff will be more available, but one every now and then won't damage them forever.

No Robinsons squash is for me lol. DD loves water and milk, i rearly give her squash, though she occasionaly does have some fresh orange juice or my Cranberry juice.

Redbin - interesting point. THe human body can handle all kinds of stuff, doesn't mean it should though?

There has been some interesting research on how parents perceive their children's behaviour is changed by sugar - it's all a bit subjective to say "he had a fruit shoot then went loopy"

www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52516

I might do some investigations. Does anyone want to lend me any identical twins?

yanbu
dd has to drink loads or suffer
so she likes them so as an occasional drink I don't see any harm

DD acts like she's on speed when she's had a fruit shoot.

I don't mind anything in moderation, but not if its goin to send her nutty for hours

DS (7) doesn't like squash (genuinely - not just me being PFB) so we have never had the issue. I do object to the price, and am a tad cautious about ingredients having had DS bouncing off walls after eating some branded ice-cream in S.Africa which turned out to contain entirely different things than the same brand in the UK .

DD (3) OTOH does like anything sweet, so I can see this battle coming. I think I will fight it on cost at home, let her have one at a party if offered, and see how it goes [sigh].

Both DC occasionally eat other stuff which would horrify the MN collective, though - Monster Munch not least among them. I blame DH .

Mmmm, Monster Munch.
Mine have these too, if husband leaves any lying around long enough.