Tesco withdraw Ribena

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No didyou I have faith in science and peer-reviewed studies. I didn't say you were a scaremongerer. I said the big hoo ha about it is.

I think that when certain brands are targeted there is often a secret agenda behind it. Remember Sunny Delight? Reports on the News at 10 about it, endless articles in the tabloids, yet my school class compared the sugar/sweetener levels of other drinks in the chiller cabinets, and from what I recall they mostly fell in the same ranges. Sometimes other companies have the connections (and the money) to chase their competitors off.

Well tbf Grays a cereal bar probably won't provide the same hit in the bloodstream that a drink would (maybe why they chose it instead of a drink?) Also the cereal bar ingredients would take a lot longer to digest, so symptoms could be very delayed or the aspartame may be safely assimilated in that way. But I was getting shocking withdrawal headaches from it before I even knew about the aspartame debate, and I don't get food sensitivities. It's something I actively avoid now. I certainly wouldn't buy it for the children in my family. Actually I got around the grouching this summer by teaching them how to make lemonade - lots of caster sugar in it, but no chemical nasties.

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What always gets me is the warnings printed on packets of things containing aspartame warning, contains a source of....

If a food or drink has a disclaimer on it, I don't want it!

They taste awful too :/

I think you can sneer at anecdotal evidence when it's 'well, my friend's friend said', personal experience is different.

Gatorade I'm sure they took all those ideas into account when completing the study.

I will always take peer reviewed scientific studies over any anecdotal evidence, as people can be wrong, even if they think they have experienced something directly. We are all fallible and subject to preconceptions and mistakes.

"People say that smoking is bad for you, but I watched my granny smoke 80 fags a day and she lived to be 100"

style of thing.

I think it's about Tesco's profits. I buy Rocks's Organic Squash. My local Tesco sells it at the moment. It's got sugar, but no preservatives. Will be interesting to see if Tesco stop selling it. I'm thinking of switching supermarkets, anyway. Aldi's much cheaper & Sainsbury's has more choice. Am peeved that Tesco have stopped selling Rachel's yoghurts. Anyway...I'd prefer to buy sugar, rather than sweeteners, too!

Still selling it in my local Tesco.

I thought they were still selling the squash, it's the cartons they were stopping selling.

I think it's quite a good thing considering the extent of tooth decay in children
< runs and hides behind giant blackcurrant bush >

ApignamedJasper - that warning is for people with phenylketonuria (PKU) who have a mutation in the phenylalanine (an amino acid) metabolism pathway. PKU is really rare and is tested for at birth so you can't unknowingly have it, and phenylalanine (being a perfectly normal amino acid that is present in a wide range of natural foods) is perfectly safe for everyone else.

But surely no-one really thinks that replacing a diet full of "full sugar" drink with it's "artificial sweetener" alternative is the healthiest choice?
It's only marketing that means people would be confused.

The only problem with Ribena cartons is that it seems more like a fruit juice than it really is, and that the multi-packs have loads in them (could be my local supermarket, but I can buy boxes of 24 Ribena cartons, but wouldn't be able to buy a three-pack. Makes it seem like an "everyday" item rather than a "treat" item.

Oh FFS. Better start stocking up. DD1 reacts badly to aspartame, so can't drink the majority of sweetened drinks. (Before anyone tries to say you can't react to it, I assure you, you can. Feed it to DD1, it's like that scene from the exorcist with the pea soup.) If she's ill, warm ribena (the pink one only!) is the only thing she'll touch.

Mango, I don't think it's the diluting stuff, just the individual lunch size cartons.

Horror of horrors our mothers (ok probably grandmothers for you young uns) were right when they said if you want a drink there's the tap.

I hadn't bothered clicking on this thread for ages thinking it was about a product recall!

I wish foods would list how sweet they were, besides the amount of sugar and whether they contain sweeteners. I'm not bothered about health risks of sweeteners in the doses used in food, but adding sugar and sweeteners to foods that shouldn't be so sweet gives people more and more of a sweet tooth, and that's what I really want to discourage in my dcs.

Pasta sauce and bread should not taste actually sweet, though may need a bit of sugar to balance out acidity. Cereals have got more sweet over the years (and many of the same ones have more sugar and less fibre in the US than they do here).

Ds has a very limited diet so I have to be strict about sweets and cakes etc, and I have to use a lot of prepared food, so want food that is chopped and cooked but not sweetened!

" Artificial sweeteners in the UK carry no dangers, it's a myth."

is that why they make my heart race?

Big supermarts, especially Tesco, are notorious for bullying their suppliers to increase their own profits at the expense of the producer. Sometimes they take big names off the shelf it suppliers won't toe the line.

"If she's ill, warm ribena (the pink one only!) is the only thing she'll touch."

When I was little, I sometimes used to be given warm blackcurrent Ribena when I was ill.

We have ribena in the house for me to have when I'm ill. Kids aren't allowed to have it unless Grandma is visiting

Artificial sweeteners in the UK carry no dangers, it's a myth

Tell that to my dd. When she has a 'no added sugar' drink or anything else containing aspartame her psoriasis flares horribly, to the extent some of it starts to itch and bleed, the reaction is so quick as well and happens every time. We avoid it as far as possible (she mostly drinks water but is fine with some high juice, Rocks and Ribena )

I was looking for some normal squash yesterday in Morrisons, there was absolutely nothing without 'no added sugar.' It's definitely getting worse - and only confirms the ignorance at schools etc who go along with the Change 4 Life crap.

I'm annoyed at Tesco. Don't particularly buy these but there is so much more rubbish they could outlaw if they really wanted to tackle obesity.

Granted, drinks like Ribena shouldn't be laced with crap, but Tesco hardly have the right to moan about the healthiness of Ribena when the end of their aisles are full of, well, crap.

This was my local Tesco on Friday.