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.

PMSL at your row over processed cheese!!!

Fuck the Fuck off!!!! Never heard that one before!!!!

Cheese string is delicious and fun. What's not to like?

Ruby... I'm crying now!!!!

i think one of the problems choosing fruit shoots is why them over a more healthy version? there's loads for kids, surely mums can choose a better drink? they arnt particularly cheap either.

....good old 'council pop' does for my kids!!!!

i am last time i went to harefield they didnt have fruit shoots! they had the topicana Go! juices instead. i was very very happy.

oooh I LIKE them too

now they really ARE fun

i avoid fruit shoots, but dont ban them.

cheese string doesnt appeal. dd1 asked for them when she had packed lunches, the first one came back opened and slightly chewed, the rest stayed in the fridge till past their date and then binned.

I am far from perfect when it comes to food for the dcs but even I know that "100% Cheese" means nothing. It can still be cheese even if it has been processed to death so that any of the goodness has been obliterated. The way it is packaged means that it has been heat treated and don't you wonder what has been done to it to make it stringy?
All that said there is nothing wrong with them occasionally if your kids like them I just get annoyed when marketing convinces people that things like that are actually nutritious. Just give the blighters some proper cheese and tell them not to play with thier food1

All cheese is processed. That's why it's cheese and not milk. I can't see why cheese string should be any less nutritious than cheddar.

but cheese is processed milk and cheese strings are processed cheese - therefore it's gone through more of a processing.(I think that's right)

I don't think cheese strings are particularly bad, but I think we're kidding ourselves if we think they are good.

It is HOW processed it is. The same way that if I make pureed apple in my kitchen it is processed but it is more nutritious than a jar of babyfood that has been cooked and then cooked again wile the jar is heat treated. Before world war 76789 starts I used jars I am not anti jars I am not anti processed food I am merely a little peeved at the way food is marketed to parents.

I would also like to add that I couln't give two hoots what other people feed thier kids, none of my business.

They are not that stringy. I tried stretching it and it snapped.

But as I said earlier, enough of this.

But coca, what makes you think that it is more processed than, say, edam or red leicester?

I have no views whatsoever about anyone who wants to buy Strings or Shoots - they have been approved by the FSA, it's your money, your kids, your choice.

I don't buy them because they really do taste revolting (to me)- synthetically-perfumey and unnturally sweet, or very salty and plasticky. They are also much more expensive than more 'close to source' itmes of a similiar nature, unnecessarily packaged, and in the case of FSs, comtaine aspatamane which I really try not to let DS have.

Also, DS doesn't particularly like them.

I agree about the packaging and the expense Blu, but for some reason I'm feeling the need to defend cheese string on the grounds of nutrition today. Or at least to get someone to prove that it is worse than other cheese.

Fruit shoots are different. They really do have some bad stuff in.

Maybe the fact that the whole point of them is that they are supposed to be fun for kids in that they can be pulled into strings etc. They must do something to make it like that. Like I say I really don't care what other people put in thier trollies I'm not being preachy I was just discussing it.

Iorek - of course they are more processed - the stretching / stringiness process, fro a start. Not to mention all that emulsifying that they talk about.

With cheese, you stir some bacteria into some milk and leave it.

With cheese strings you then mash the cjeese up, add other dairy products and emulsifiers, stretch it and somehow make it styringy...

All or none of which may make it more or less nutritious.

But personally, I would prefer DS enjoy cheese fro it's cheese-ness, not for it's invented entertainment value and un-cheese-like stringiness.

x-posted.

yes, fair enough - I thnk the issues with Strings are not the same as Shoots.

exactly Blu and I may loose the plot if MIL buys any more of them for my cheese loving kids.

Blu, do you have it on good authority that they "mash the cheese up, add other dairy products and emulsifiers"?

Mozzarella is stringier than cheese string. How do you account for that?

My dd nearly choked on a cheese string once,. so they are banned from our house now.

Fruit shoots are banned in my house too cos of the aspartame. Gives you brain cancer.