Fruit shoots are evil............

[posieparker]

So I never buy the things, but yesterday all children were thirsty and I hadn't prepared by taking water. Anyway the shop I chose to go in ONLY had fruit shoots with a good lid thingy, no water, no juice, no milkshake....NO alternative.

Now my dcs didn't go crazy with the mythical sugar rush......but dc4 has just found one that he must have thrown under something and squeezed it all over my lounge carpet. EVIL EVIL THINGS!!!

You won't' have to worry about the carpet though as the Evil Fruit Shoot will have eaten through to the floor underneath.

Yes I now have a hole in my floor....now I'm worried that the sausage rolls are going to get in!

PMSL Soupy

I have a friend who worked for a company who make additives for plastic bottles - you wouldn't believe how much technology goes into them - who looks askance at Fruit Shoots not for the contents but for the lurid colouringof the bottles. She's a sober industrial chemist not an anti-'chemicals' alarmist, so - while DD has FS occasionally when out, I'm inclined to avoid them and probably wouldn't reuse those bottles.

Interesting about the bottles...ah well, what does your friend say about other plastic bottles?

Hello, if you would like the 'real' information about fruit Shoots please refer to the below link.

www.britvic.com/Brand.aspx?id=52
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_Shoot

I struggle to understand how kids can get a sugar rush when they contain no sugar?

If you carryout a google search they are highly recommended for diabetics as an ideal alternative, so they can't be full of sugar!

Lets face it, you can't eat anything now a days without a cancer or health scare so why focus on products that aren't bad for you and slate the truely EVIL sugary products that are on the market like Capri Sun 'A single serving contains over 4 teaspoons of sugar - that's more sugar than juice' and Coca Cola '39g sugar in a 355ml can. As i said in my earlier post, everything in moderation!!

StayingDavidTennantsGirl "Ds3 says I should shut up now - clearly the dreadful additives he buys himself have adversely affected his attitude - I should have been a better mother, in thesunshinesbrightly mould - and then he'd be a perfect angel, drinking only milk and fruit juice."

No. Milk and water. MILK AND WATER.

God you people just don't let go do you, seems you lot need to sort out your issues.

My opinion.

My kid's

Get a grip.

Sorry, Brown Owl

SoupDragon Tue 25-May-10 18:19:38
"They are disgusting!! full of crap, would rather let the kid's go thirsty. "

Well, my opinion is that letting your kids go thirsty makes you cruel.

That's good, god job, i'm prepared then isn't it, so my children don't need to be thirsty.

If you think fruit shoots are bad on carpets, you should try Irn Bru!

Now that really is the work of the devil!

(...but I do like it )

PS ds, 9, is allowed fruitshoots occasionally (but he has to ask, whereas he can get fruit juice cartons or diluting juice whenever he wants) - and Irn Bru as a special treat (...well, he is Scottish after all )

thesunshinesbrightly, I do think that the post you were referring to was very probably hyperbole.

posie

have you spilt fruit shoot on mn, is it it? with your foul stainy dissolving demon fruitshoot

arrrgh now the turkey twizzlers are coming to kill us all!!!!!!

ds1(6) has only had a few. but he loves them. not surprising really. i tasted one once. god they are vile. like neat syrup. like drinking undiluted ribena. they are like neat sugar. yuk. no wonder kids love them.

They are vile and they stink worse than pickled onion monster munch - but they're not the evilest food around.

OK. Cheesestrings scare me. Cheese isn't meant to do THAT - it's not normal and it's just hideous.

Fruitshoots are only mildly evil, cheesestrings are borderline satanic.

Thesunshinesbrightly - you'd rather let your child go thirsty than drink a fruitshoot - and you think other people have issues?! [shock}

Cupcakesandbunting - milk and water - yes'm, sorry'm.

they are everything that is dreadful about sugary drinks, marketing shit stuff as a 'healthy' product etc etc.

DD had one once (Uncle P brought it for her at her first trip to the cinema)and she puked everywhere! It was an all round dreadful situation. I'm sure the Fruit Shoot wasn't entirely to blame but I don't mind the connection being made in DD's mind at all.

As we rarely if ever buy DD drinks in a bottle/can etc we don't get demands for it. Luckily she is a great water drinker

They put them in the 'juice' section at the supermarket too which is unreasonable.

I too avoid fruits shoots but will buy them if there's nothing else and I've forgotten to take any enough drinks.

Ds guzzles all drinks and has drunk a FS so fast he's immediately puked on at least 2 occasions. Plus, they make my children pee a lot, in a highly inconvenient 4 or 5 times within the hour sort of way. Given that we are always out & about when we end up buying the damn things this is extremely annoying - I don't know what's in them that does this but nothing else has quite such a dramatic diuretic effect.

Get over yourselves you bunch of snobs Everything OK in moderation, I say and better than going thirsty.

what's wrong with a kid being thirsty for a moment?
leaving them without drinks at all = cruel & life threatening, obviously. Letting them wait until they get home from school/park/where ever for a drink = normal behaviour surely!

I mean not every one has the inclination/money/corner shop all on hand at every moment to buy the kids drinks every time they are thirsty, and even well prepared parents will forget the drinks occasionally. Drink from the fountain before you leave school, or wait until we get home! No harm is going to come from experiencing short term thirst.

I don't get why people have fruit squash and similar. It tends to taste shite and has next to no nutrition left after the freezing, dehydrating, blah, blah processes to make it.

It's not particularly good for hydration either as your body has to work harder to remove the shite and utilise the water that is part of the contents. Straight water is better.

Companies advertise 'high juice content'. Just looked online at one, it's 55% Juice, 45% what? And that juice is from how old fruit and what quality? Any vitamin content is mass produced poor quality synthetics. Meh.

The only way I can see to get 'fruity goodness' is to make your own fresh juice and the cost of quality ingredients is largely prohibitive.

Although we did have an influx of apples and raspberries in the garden last year so once the freezer was full they made a nice juice with a bit of fresh ginger.

I could understand if it was actually good for you but as far as I can see it's just to make water have 'an acceptable taste'.

[gets in flame proof tent]

nomorebooze - Wiki (hmmm) says no added sugar and then no sugar... Think it's some and some depending on flavour?

"Although it contains no sugar, it contains the artificial sweeteners Aspartame and Acesulfame K, as well as other additives including acidity regulator Trisodium Citrate, Dimethyl Di andcarbonate, plus colourings and Malic Acid."

Nice, that's probably worse that sugar...

"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)

Interesting stuff on this page.

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

My dc have never drunk a fruit shoot in their lives. How hard is it really to ensure that you have sports bottle with water in it wherever you go?

I am not overly fussy re food and drink for dc but Fruit Shoots really get my goat for some reason. Horrible bottles, horrible content, yuk, yuk, yuk!

posie

stop cowering in the corner you caused this madness

did you get the stain out or not???????????

apolygies to everyone else for hijacking the thread back to the original point