Can we have a list of foods which are rubbish for our LOs?

[ellehcim]

Not the obvious ones like "sweets" and "Chocolate" but the sneaky evil ones like fruit shoots.

Does anyone know for example if those fruity flake things in little packets are actually fruit flakes or are they pumped so full of other stuff that the fruit content is worthless?

Thank you. Why can't they say that on the box instead of from concentrate. Confused me.

If you are a type two diabetic then you are told to not eat a product with sugar in the first 4 ingredients on the list. As this means there is to high a % of sugar in the product.

If you use the same princaple in your own shopping you soon know what to buy and what to leave on the shelf.

When you have done this once when shopping and read all the labels you dont need to do this everytime you go shopping as you are well aware of what not to put in the trolley. It will only be when a new product hits the shelfs that you will check the little label to decide whether to buy or not.

'Basically anything out of a packet/pot/bottle aimed at children will contain a horrific list of ingredients. '

That's not always true actually, lots of perfectly healthy additive free stuff now on the market for kids, like the organix stuff, innocent stuff, ella's kitchen stuff to name a few. Just because the ingredient list is long doesn't make it 'horrific', my thai chicken and vegetables has a huge list of ingredients, all healthy and good for you though

My 'horrific' list wasn't aimed at long lists in particular just e.g. squash, lunchables, tv character spaghetti, sugar-laden cereals and yoghurts - all aimed at children yet the 'adult' versions all seem to try and have less additives (hi-squash, pro-biotic yoghurt, muesli etc)