"Give your kids a good start to the day with Nutella" on Mumsnet

[Daddster]

Anyone else think Mumsnet should exercise some advertising restraint on high-sugar, high fax products?

mummydoc - sorry - can't help... always been 'high juice' ie high sugar squash round here. Skinny kids with perfect teeth and no shrivelled balls

no shrivelled balls?

high juice or fruit juice or water or ordinary ribena , clean teeth regularly , and slim , perfect teeth children here too.

Monkeytrousers - at one time everyone was going on about artificial sweeteners causing testicles to atrophy - but it's probably if you have about a million tons of them - another load of paranoid baloney I dare say!

I tell you what was funny, I was researching some exercise DVDS on Amazon yesterday, and down the left hand side of my screen popped up a print-off voucher for McDonalds. Burger and chips for £1.99 or something.

I'm back with annoyance, this time angrily clutching a packet of fairtrade, organic coffee!

Just seen a Nestlé advert on this site, for Pete's sake.

On an unrelated topic, I went to buy a nutrition book recently, but the shop had sold out. I bought a different one, but I didn't have the correct change in Sterling, so I apologised for tendering Euros - the cashier responded don't worry - we don't care where the money* comes from. My toddler DD" fell over on the way home when I let go of the reins.

You'll be on the 'enjoying the fights' thread next!

Niceglasses: The ingredients in Nutella are as follows: sugar, peanut oil, hazelnuts, cocoa, skimmed milk, reduced minerals, whey, partially-hydrogenated peanut oil, soy lecithin, emulsifier, vanillin, artificial flavour.
The ingredients in the jam I have in my fridge is: Sugar, blackcurrants, pectin, citric acid.
Nutella is not the same as jam, and I know full well which I would prefer my dc to be eating.
Fortyplus: by advertising products, regardless of whether it is the case or not, it aopears to all intents and purposes as though it is an endorsement. To suggest that mn can advertise anything they like whithout it looking like an endoe=rsement would be very cynical, and I for one would be horrified if mn bagan to advertise mcdonalds or claire verity books for example.
I have no objection to the fat in nutella, just the crap in it!

I agree with op that mn should be more discerning about what they advertise

AAAhhh. I completely agree with op. Typos caused by irritation

Nutella is a treat. Mumnset is a business.

nutella is full of crap, mumsnet could easily generate advertising revenue from elsewhere

I love nutella but I'm really cross that they are trying to set themselves up as some kind of healthy breakfast...and if it contains hydrogenated fat (thanks Borage) then it is likely that it is actually harmful.
that's a shame.

I got the ingredients wrong, the right ones are here, not much different, just being accurate

Hmmmm, I was very wrong first time, no hydrogenated veg fat then. Still think it's crap, but not as crap as I first thought. That will teach me to cut and paste from someone elses web page won't it?!
Right, I'm off to buy a jar of nutella

I'm laughing hysterically at brushing teethg with nutella, thanks monkeytrousers

Get one for me Borage.

Actually its the kinda thing my kids have in phases. On holiday last year we must have caused a few strokey beard moments in the board room at Nutella because their profits must have temporarily rocketed. We went through about 8 jars in a week (8 kids on holiday mind you). Then they forget about it.

Until they see it on MN!!

Thanks for clarifying Borage, I think the ingredients list is pretty good really; I might have to go and buy some

It's lovely on pancakes, Sunday breakfast

Thanks for the accurate list borage. Still worried in case they don't have to declare whether the oil is hydrogenated or not (anal, moi??)
It is basically sugar and oil though, with a few flavourings. Just read through their 'balanced breakfast' and really, the nutella is adding nothing of nutritional value. grrrr. disingenuous marketing or what.

The occasional inch of Nutella on toast is not going to kill you. DD2 and I had loads, with hot chocolate, in bed on Sunday morning watching telly. It was fab.

If it makes you feel better, make your own. Dead easy and just as good: toasted hazelnuts, chocolate and double cream. And keeps for about a month in the fridge.

my kids prefer nutella to the organic fairtrade version much to my lentil-weaving distress. But they are growing teenagers and have perfect decay free teeth.
While poor dd, sugar free from birth is 3 and needs teeth out due to decay.
Life don't make sense.
Bit of what you fancy doesn't hurt and adverts don't make you buy something if you don't want too. I ignore them. Like the Boden one. No way could I fford that stuff and I bet its not fair trade but I culdn't give a crap about the advert.

I don't think nutella is the devil's food, and I don't object to it being on a mumsnet advert. What I do object to is the marketing line that it is healthy. It is a high sugar, high fat, delicious treat When I was a teenager I used to eat not just nutella neat from the jar, but nutella AND unsalted butter neat together

What they should say (perhaps they do -- I haven't read the advert) is that Nutella can be part of a healthy diet. Which plainly it can.

Oh yes of course they do that. But the underlying message they are peddling is that the product itself is healthy. Which plainly it is not.

Yes, I wasn't too impressed by the '52 hazlenuts in a jar' claim. Only 52!!

well. i have to say that this thread has inspired me to go and buy a tub of Nutella....yum yum. Havn't had it for years.

Think I'll do it on a nice thin warm pancake like they do on those street vendor stands in Paris...roll it up an eat it before the choccie all melts......

{swoons at the very thought}

anyway...i totally disagree with the op. As Threadlice said, Nutella is a treat, mumsnet is a business. I ate it when I was a child, I still have all my own teeth, good skin and am not clinically obese.

I'm so fed up with all the food police, thought police, pc police around these days. A little of what you fancy, in moderation, doesn't do any harm.