I know it's been done before but I'm really confused :(

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I know that this is a bit of a taboo topic but really need some clarification.

We have just returned from our holiday abroad. As soon as she got home we went to my SILs for some tea. My 4 yr old dd as usual went to the cupboard and asked for a fruit shoot.
She drinks them quite regularly when we are out and about and we noticed before we went that she was a bit more hyper than usual after sneaking a couple of bottles from the cupboard one afternoon but put it down to her bieng giddy about what we were doing at the time.

Anyway, being on holiday she hasn't had any thing other than water and fresh fruit juice but tonight OMG she was literally bouncing off the walls. She was running about like a loon, wouldn't sit still, even bit me at one point, was cross one minute, screaching with laughter the next. She was pulling her 'angry face' and just being generally aggressive.
When we finally got her in bed, she was laid there rocking.
Im just confused as to whether she was excited to see her aunt and cousins or it was a reaction to the juice.

Can't seem to find a definitive answer to whether they likely to have caused this or not, some say it's all a myth and others say they are the work of the devil.

Don't want to say she can't ever have them if it is all a myth, but cant be having this behaviour if this is what's causing them

Sugar doesn't make anybody hyper, it just damages teeth. I'd say if you have to give her fruit shoot then go for the original, not the sugar free version. The additives are more dangerous IMO. XP gives them to DS (21mo) and has done since he was about 16 months old I have tasted them and they are disgusting. In fact, I had some apple tango in my bag the other day which had gone flat (I was very thirsty) and I drank that and it tasted exactly like the apple flavour fruit shoot DS came home with once, except it was actually weaker. What's wrong with apple juice from concentrate? Why would anyone want to drink a concoction of something which tastes like chemicals and sweetness and is overwhelmingly strong?

Luckily DS will happily drink water when at home and doesn't ask for juice or anything else, think I was lucky with that one.

Was just about to say that sugar doesn't cause hyperactivity, but see BertieB has already said so. Colours and artificial additives can, however. My ds reacts very badly to anything like that.

I'm sure I spotted a Sainsbury's version of FSs which was just juice and water but in the same sort of bottle - why not give her that?

I can't understand why you'd give your child some horrible artificial concoction out of choice. Just avoid it - it's not hard!

doesn't the OP clearly say that she had nothing but water and fresh fruit juice, NOT that she had fruit shoots?

ah no, I mis-read it

Why on earth is this even an issue?

Watered-down apple juice or water are all a child this age should have; when she starts asking for alco-pops at 12, will you buy them for her?

These so-called drinks are not food, they're a concoction of chemicals put together in a lab and manufactured for sale.

No one's perfect, and my DCs have had their fair share of crap when out and about or on holiday, but they sure won't find it in my kitchen cupboards!