Daft remark (imo) about apple juice in context of children

[handlemecarefully]

Was musing aloud in company of some friends and acquaintances about my (almost) 3 year old's excessive consumption of undiluted apple juice and whether this was likely to be causing his rather runny poo (which he experiences regularly)...I suspect it does btw.

Anyway...this acquaintance asked how much and I said around 1 - 1.5 litres daily and her reaction was "Do you realise how many calories are in that?" (in shocked tones)

Que? Now I can imagine somebody commenting on the acidity of it possibly upsetting his stomach (this is my concern and hence I plan to reduce consumption and introduce more water)...or possibly dental decay from the (natural) sugars in fruit juice, but calories ??? (non plussed)

Good lord I felt like a pedaller of fruit shoots

Sofia Ames...I know where you going, and agree...just wanted to point out that shopbought juices don't have much natural things in them...no matter what it says on teh package!

My 21 mth old DS developed a bit of a juice addiction - I never could get him to drink plain water. He used to be mad for prune juice.

I have gradually watered down his juice so that now he has a VERY diluted drink of orange juice for breakfast, and just has water the rest of the day (I have had to buy him a new funky sports bottle to encourage the water drinking but so far so good!)

I do sometimes give him half a carton of pure apple juice as a treat if we are out and about - I don't do this too often tho as they fill him up too much and I worry about his beautiful teeth.