Which cartons of fruit juice drink for lunch boxes are actually ok?

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Watched This Morning today and they featured lunch box stuff and all the salt, sugar that stuff contains. One of the items was capri sun, I do put this in my sons lunchbox as it has not additives, preservatives, but it doesnt contain much actual fruit juice (10% ) and of course a fair amount of sugar. Out of all of these drinks on the market are there any that are actually low in sugar, no additives and with a high fruit content. I also buy Five Alive cartons and the Willy Wonka ones from Sainsburys. I want to buy the best I can, unfortunately ds doesnt want water.........and its my fault because I never made him when he was young.

What about getting him some cartons of pure fruit juice?

pure fruit juice in cartons

We managed to get DS on to water with the aid of flavoured water.

pure fruit juice lidls aldis and even tesco et al do a great value range in pure juice from concentrate.

Don't give him pepsi, pepsi
And now to be constructive - pure fruit juice is the only way to go

If you go for flavoured water, watch the sugar and sweetener content - some of them have huge amounts of sugar and some of them contain aspartame and other additives which you might want to steer clear of.

DS has dinners but if I was sending packed lunch the only thing I would contemplate is the pure juice - and its the cheapest!

Tesos organic apple juice has 11.1 % sugar, Five alive citrus burst has 11.9 sugar -- not a huge difference IMHO.

And Citrus burst is 43% juice (and has added calcium).

Five alive citrus burst is a staple drink for ds2 as he won't drink milk

can't say the same for the five alive berry blast though 13% sugar and only 20% friut juice

The Innocent Smoothies are pure fruit and nothing else and they have some lovely flavour combinations. You can get them in small lunchbox cartons or larger ones as well.

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iota - isn't the sugar content in pure fruit juices 'natural' though and the other ones added?

I may be talking out of my arse.

Oh, might try that with my 18mo pruni. Currently drinks v diluted cow and gate juice

What about letting him choose his own sports drink type bottle and then diluting fruit juice - gradually if necessary until you reach the proportion you're happy with. Ds1 has gone from all water to all juice to just having a splash of juice in water (and neat juice only for treats).

Iota, just out of interest, what's the other 57% of 5 Alive made from, if it's not juice? Is any of the sugar "added" sugar rather than that from the fruit juice, because that might have some bearing on whether it's comparable with pure fruit juice.

How about giving him progessively diluted fruit juice in a cool bottle like a Sigg, scroll down for kids designs .

OO - so it might be, but sugar is sugar in my book, whatever its source.

and I have to get calcium into ds2 somehow and teh spjnach wasn't cutting it

I agree Olive. Innocent smoothies great but v. expensive.

The sugar in pure juice will be fructose, added sugar is normally glucose. Fructose is lower GI than glucosse, better absorbed and causes less of a "spike" in blood sugar.

Do you worry about the sugar content of an apple??

DS1 has pure OJ, pure AJ, innocent smoothies or water depending on his mood. I would never give him squash or "juice drinks" at all (I don't worry about when out or at friends, whatever though, I'm not that fanatical).

check cartons of juice as some arent completely PURE added sugar and water oh and some are only orange flavoured juice too

pure fruit juice still gives you a pretty good sugar kick, soupy. when my blood sugar drops too low (diabetes), one of those small cartons pushes it up again immediately. the reason fruit itself doesn't have this effect is because of the fibre in it.

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WWB - -biggest ingredient in five alive citrus is water - so at least 86% is water anad fruit juice, Rest is sugar, calcium phosphate, calcium lactate, citric acid, flavourings, Vit C.

100ml has 51 cals:
11.9g sugar
12mg vit c (20% RDA)
120mg Calcium (15% RDA)

BTW I always dilute it by about 50% as so sweet -- obv not possible if giving a small carton in lunchbox

Try using used bottle from his fafourite fruit drink and pour in any fruit juice which is not from concentrate as Tropicana or Sainsbury's range . And you can dilute it as well.

But are the "juice drinks" with glucose worse, hoxtonchick?

Ds and dd have pure fruit juice/water/milk for about 95% of the time. Often, the drinks in kids meals or lunch boxes (Asda, Tesco, etc) are fruit juice drinks (ie a squash type thing) and I've said "I'm sorry, my ds/ds doesn't drink anything but juice or milk, can I swap this for pure juice or milk, please?" and they've agreed. I have also been known to say "Do you really think this is a healthy meal for a child:- A white roll with plastic ham, a chocolate bar, a bag of crisps and squash? Please can I have your customer services address so that I can get in touch?", but that's another thread!

probably sd . i'd definitely go for pure juice over juice drinks from a nutritional point of view.