What's wrong with fruit shoots?

[branflake81]

OK - forgive my ignorance but I have never actually had or been in contact with a fruitshoot or read its label* - can someone explain why they are seemingly akin to giving your child arsenic?

*this is not down to any kind of deliberate alimentary puratism, I just haven't.

taste one and find out

they make my children loopy

they dont have any adverse effects on my kids - if they have any I tend to get the H2O ones as they are mainly spring water. I dont buy them from the supermarket but if we go out for lunch thats what they tend to have on the menu.

Well there may be plenty wrong with them, but bet your life, a large amount (if not a majority) of Mners who diss them, give or have given to their children sometimes.

Tis a certainty!

Mners do not always practice what they preach and thank God or else they'd be tiresomely perfect!

They taste minging.

But DD1 went to a lovely party yesterday with incredible food and they had FruitShoots to drink so she had a couple.

Ach, well, it's a couple of minging FruitShoots.

Myself and another MNer recently snurked guiltily to each other as one of her DC enjoyed a bag of Wotsits and one of my DC slurped happily on a Fruit Shoot...

I think that's the biggest problem - they are deceptive because they look like they are healthy, but it's only when you look at the ingredients (or taste one) that you realise they aren't.

They are also incredibly appeling to children, and bad for the environment being packaged in small bottles.

Or perhaps you are just perfect Lapin (Although not of course tiresome with it)

There is absolutely nowt wrong with the occasional Fruitshoot.

My kids are loopy anyway (aren't everyones?)

I buy fruit shoots to use as water bottles for the DC.

I also give them cheesestrings, I don't get what the problem is with them (apart from the stupid overpackaging)

Cheese strings contain NOTHING but cheese. I was wondering about the MN outrage over those the other day...

The thing is they don't look like they are full of healthy fruit juice. Anyone with any sense would realise it's not 'real juice'.

Plus most of the 'fruit juice' people think is good for their children is just as bad.

They are ANNOYING because they say "FRUIT" in the name and they really are NOTHING to do with fruit.

I don't know why anyone would buy one though. I mean, you wouldn't buy chewing gum for a child, would you?

My main worry (apart from feeding my child chemicals) is that if they think that food tastes like THIS then I am may as well give up on educating their palate now and accept they will be on WKD Blue by the age of 12

They are so strong, they need to be dliatuted with about four bottles of water to make them drinkable.

Cheese strings have the texture of cheese-flavoured dogshit

Don't you CARE about your children's palates?

i wouldn't ever buy FruitShoots, but they seem to be popular at birthday parties, that or squash, which also has that minging aspartame in it.

Nothing wrong with a fruit shoot. So long as you're wearing a helmet.

And "CONTAINS CHEESE!" doesn't actually MEAN anything.

"The ingredients of cheese strings are processed cheese, colouring when orange (usually annatto, which is the most common colouring added to all orange cheeses), and salt (up to 0.75 g per package). Processed cheese is a mix of different cheeses and other dairy products (such as whey), melted and mixed with emulsifiers (salts that change the texture and get them all to mix together) and reformed into another shape. Emulsifiers are very common food additives that help keep oils from separating out of a mixture; the best known emulsifier is probably egg yolk; the most common emulsion mixture eaten is probably mayonnaise."

aren't cheese strings processed cheese? How can that be good? (I've never had them though, don't think they sell them in Belgium. I don't think they sell fruit shoots here either)

No morning paper.

In fact I would go as far as to say I don't care about my children period.

Of course I don't.

Not at all.

This is like saying you would never drink alcohol because of the chemicals!

I bet youall enjoy a glass of wine now and then eh?

Let them have their treats.