Have a DC aged 1 to 10 years who is a fussy eater? Sign up to test PaediaSure Shake chocolate, vanilla or strawberry flavour drinks - £100 voucher for feedback

[LucyBMumsnet]

We’re looking for Mumsnet users with at least one child aged 1 to 10 years to test PaediaSure Shake with their child. PaediaSure Shake is a nutritional supplement drink for kids enriched with essential nutrients they need to grow and thrive.

Here’s what PaediaSure has to say: “Whether your child is going through a fussy eating phase, feeling under the weather or always on the go, PaediaSure Shake is here to support them on their journey to a balanced diet. Our shakes are packed with omega 3 & 6 to support their growth and development*, protein for normal bone development and 26 vitamins & minerals including vitamin D to support the normal function of their immune system. PaediaSure Shake can provide peace of mind your child is getting the nutrients they need to help keep them strong and healthy. Try it alongside their meals, as a nutritious after-school snack or in one of our enriched recipes!”

Selected testers will be sent 2 or 3 x 400g tins of PaediaSure Shake Powder in the flavour(s) of their choice and will be asked to test the drink with their child once a day**. The drink comes in chocolate, vanilla and strawberry flavours. Click here to find out more about PaediaSure Shake.

Testers will be asked to give their feedback on a private thread on Mumsnet and a short survey. All testers who give the required feedback will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £100 voucher for the store of their choice (from a list).

If you’re interested in taking part, please sign up here.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

Insight Terms and Conditions apply

PaediaSure Shake is a food supplement. It may be used while working towards a healthy balanced diet.

*Essential fatty acids are needed for normal growth and development of children. This beneficial effect is obtained with a daily intake of 10g linoleic acid and 2g alpha-linolenic acid.
**Recommended daily servings: 1-3 year olds = 1 serving. 4-10 year olds = 2 servings.

Date of Preparation December 2020. UK-PDSHK-2000155.

[Shufflebudge]

Mumsnet shouldn’t be pushing sugary meal replacements for children. Come on, I know it’s advertising money but surely you’re not that hard up....

[Navigationcentral]

@LucyBMumsnet I am really appalled that you are allowing this to occur. There is no way a meal replacement or nutritional supplement amounting to a daily sugary drink for kids that should be peddled here. I have heard this product recommended by doctors in two cases - severe malnourishment and a recovery from childhood cancer treatment. It’s not something for “fussy eaters”. And what - if at the end of this trial period - the kids grows to expect this sugary shake daily? And parents are forced to give in as habit formed by now. This is so many degrees of wrong. Please give your collective MN heads a wobble.

[Rememberallball]

As a product this is only appropriate when prescribed by a relevant healthcare professional for children with specific dietary needs. This, and other brands on the market, should not be encouraged for ‘fussy’ or ‘daddy’ eaters as all it does is fill them with sugar and artificial replacements rather than working to break the poor eating cycle.

Please MNHQ, don’t allow companies to pedal their inappropriate products to children who don’t need what was originally produced as a medically prescribed product and does nothing to foster good eating habits in those children

[Lentillover1900]

Done

[HamFisted]

@Rememberallball

As a product this is only appropriate when prescribed by a relevant healthcare professional for children with specific dietary needs. This, and other brands on the market, should not be encouraged for ‘fussy’ or ‘daddy’ eaters as all it does is fill them with sugar and artificial replacements rather than working to break the poor eating cycle.

Please MNHQ, don’t allow companies to pedal their inappropriate products to children who don’t need what was originally produced as a medically prescribed product and does nothing to foster good eating habits in those children

Might be missing the point here, but isn't it essentially an enriched milkshake? What's the difference between this and Nesquik?

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

HamFisted you probably shouldn't give your child Nesquik either - full of sugar.

And I agree with other people who have said this product is inappropriate. If there is a medical need as prescribed by a professional then maybe, but not as part of a normal diet.

[HamFisted]

@ButterflyOfFreedom

HamFisted you probably shouldn't give your child Nesquik either - full of sugar.

And I agree with other people who have said this product is inappropriate. If there is a medical need as prescribed by a professional then maybe, but not as part of a normal diet.

Yeah, but I don't really buy the whole, 'sugar is the devil' thing. If your kid is overweight or has a mouth full of cavities, sure, but otherwise one sugary drink a day isn't all that problematic as far as I can see.

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

HamFisted No food is the devil but how did a child get overweight or have a mouth full of cavities...? And I think people forget the definition of 'treat'- a sugary drink once a day seems a lot to me. My children only have water or milk to drink and only on very special occasions like a birthday do they get juice/ squash (still never milkshakes or fizzy drinks). It's a slippery slope...

[HamFisted]

@ButterflyOfFreedom

HamFisted No food is the devil but how did a child get overweight or have a mouth full of cavities...? And I think people forget the definition of 'treat'- a sugary drink once a day seems a lot to me. My children only have water or milk to drink and only on very special occasions like a birthday do they get juice/ squash (still never milkshakes or fizzy drinks). It's a slippery slope...

Poor diet and lifestyle generally, to answer your question.

I tried the whole milk and water only thing (except just water, because she wouldn't drink milk) and it went OK until the first hot summer when she just wouldn't drink enough. All the reminders in the world weren't making a difference, her urine was really dark and at that point I decided that, overall, hydration was more important, so she started getting squash. It's the same now- she'll drink water if really thirsty, but not enough to stay properly hydrated on water alone, and the adage for horses works for toddlers too, as it turns out.

I imagine if you've got a fussy eater it's similar- either they eat what's less than ideal or they don't eat. I've a workmate who tells me that for a few months as a toddler her kid ate nothing but chips. She gave him the chips, he grew out of it and he eats everything as an adult. In the interim though, during that period of fussiness, would a vitamin enriched milkshake have been harmful? I don't think so.

[Lentillover1900]

@ButterflyOfFreedom

HamFisted No food is the devil but how did a child get overweight or have a mouth full of cavities...? And I think people forget the definition of 'treat'- a sugary drink once a day seems a lot to me. My children only have water or milk to drink and only on very special occasions like a birthday do they get juice/ squash (still never milkshakes or fizzy drinks). It's a slippery slope...

Advanced search you (so shoot me )

You’ve had a drawn out history with trying to lose weight.
I don’t. Hence I am relaxed about my children having cake, chocolate, crisps on a bit irregular basis.
They’re as skinny as rakes and obsessed with sports

Relaxed.

[Lentillover1900]

It’s clouding your judgement
Becuae it isn’t a “slippery slope” for many

I grew up as my children are growing up re diet
And I am currently trying to put on weight as risk of osteoporosis in so skinny!

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

Lentillover1900 just because someone is skinny doesn't mean a diet filled with too much sugar and/or saturated fat isn't doing damage inside.

I'm surprised you've advanced search me (didn't know that was a thing!?!). I have an interest in healthy weight / lifestyles (linked to my job). I also eat crisps, chocolate, biscuits etc and do allow my children these things but not on a daily basis.

Back to the product in question here, it just seems wrong to give a 1 year old a food supplement when they are only 6 months into their food journey (for want of a better term).

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

I agree with other posters here like navigationcentral and rememberallball

[Lentillover1900]

100ml of this has the same amount of sugar In it as just one of those teeny petit flious fromage frais yoghurts!

Advanced search useful for when posters are particularly judgey about something. Quite often reeks of hypocrisy....

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

I doubt someone would just have 100ml of it though... And then no more sugar for the rest of the day...

I'm not meaning to be judgemental, certainly not to you or any one specifically so please don't take my comments personally. I guess like others have said, it just doesn't feel right to provide a food supplement to a child if there is no medical reason.

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

These are the 3 main ingredients:

Hydrolysed corn starch, Sucrose, Vegetable oils (canola, high oleic sunflower, sunflower, MCT from palm kernel oil)

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

And this is direct from their website - which were both my main points really (though I might not have said so as succinctly!):

Food supplements should not be used as a substitute for a varied and balanced diet, and a healthy lifestyle.

Ask your healthcare professional for guidance regarding your child’s specific nutritional needs.

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

Lentillover1900 and thanks for letting me know about advance search, might come in handy one day I guess...!

[Lentillover1900]

Oh it’s a handy tool, that’s for sure
Yes take roses chocolates as an example

This is the ingredients
Milk, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Vegetable Fats (Palm, Shea, Sunflower), Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Whey Powder (from Milk), Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Hazelnuts, Emulsifiers (E442, E471, Soya Lecithins, E476), Skimmed Milk Powder, Fat-Reduced Cocoa Powder, Humectant (Glycerol), Flavourings, Salt, Molasses, Sodium Carbonates, Acid (Citric Acid), Colours (Anthocyanins, Paprika Extract), Milk Chocolate: Milk Solids 20 % minimum, Milk Chocolate: Milk Solids 14 % minimum, Milk Chocolate contains Vegetable Fats in addition to Cocoa Butter

And 58g of sugar in 100g
Can you imagine how many in 10?!

[Lentillover1900]

My view is that if this was a treat - against other treats ie biscuits, chocolates, even petit filous fromage frais! This at least is rammed with lots of vitamins, so if you did have a picky eater then....

100ml has same sugar as one tiny pot of petit filous
A serving bottle is 200ml
A serving of petit filous according to Tesco, Sainsbury’s etc website is 2 pots
So same amount of sugar in having a bottle of this and giving you one year old a tiny fromage frais pot at lunch and one after dinner

[ChelseaCat]

@NameChange30

Absolutely terrible idea

For children with sensory issues or eating disorders or whatever, something like this might be necessary, but for otherwise healthy children who are just fussy eaters, there's no way on earth we should be offering them a sugary milkshake every day!

Most of us give our children a vitamin supplement anyway.

Absolutely.

This is so inappropriate.

[lolly2011]

Done,

[MrsFrTedCrilly]

I’m really shocked and disappointed that abbot are trying to market this to worried parents of fussy eaters.
I’m also concerned that Mumsnet think it’s an appropriate partnership for them.
In a professional setting this product is valuable for where it’s nutritionally appropriate as a food for special medical purposes.
Paediatric Dietitians are specialists in children’s nutrition, abbot are out to make a fast buck and it’s sickening. @LucyBMumsnet is this something that mumsnet haven’t considered?

[Samira12]

Ah would be a life saver if it was as simple as having a drink honestly so need it

[Scoleah]

Just recieved email, Have got chosen for this,
Thank you!