Do you let your baby have petis filous?

[MillyStar]

My health visitor told me that I could give dd anything from 6 months apart from honey and nuts, I've heard a few negative comments about petis filous though - do you avoid it?

[Posterofapombear]

They have 25% of an adults daily sugar allowance. That's gross!

[Woodlands]

My 2 year old and I both love them but we have them as a holiday treat. For everyday he hasGreek yoghurwith sliced banana and honey.

[melliebobs]

No plain full fat Greek yoghurt is healthier n hell of a lot cheaper. Plus we can vary the taste with different fruits

[Shenanagins]

No as they were too sweet for me and i have a massive sweet tooth. instead i get plain full fat yogurt and add bananas and various other fruits, mush it up and then freeze in single portions taking out a pot on a daily basis.

[drmummmsy]

yes, frequently, still do, dc 7 now

[TempusFuckit]

Can I just start by saying I'm not usually this anal - but!

Sainsbury's changed their own brand kids' fromage frais recipe a few months ago so it has refined sugar in now - however! The new recipe has less sugar as a % in overall (I guess that fruit juice they used to sweeten it was super-sugary, albeit natural?)

Okay, as you were.

(Also, from the packaging etc I'm fairly sure Asda and Tesco own brand are made by the same company. The squeezable sachets are great when you're on the go too.)

[Startail]

DD1 lived on them, never checked the ingredients.

However, she had managed to fall off the weight chart and would not touch a bottle of formula.

So yoghurt/fromage frais became her top of milk.

It has remain so to this day, although at 3 she added ice cream and now she'll drink hot chocolate and milkshake.

Yes all sodding sweet, what do you expect from a child who BF for years. Breast milk is far sweeter than cows milk.

[Startail]

Oh should add DD2 is 11, so there was nothing like the choice of baby yoghurts there is now.

[shoesontheglasslamp]

Little Yeo here. Smoothie ones are good and they are all natural (and often on 3 for 2 or similar in Sainsburys..!)

[SamSmalaidh]

Yes, gave them occasionally but not as an everyday thing. I'm not overly worried about sugar though - I also tend to think sugar is sugar, so it's not a case of fruit sugar = good, refined sugar = bad, I would look at the overall amount of sugar rather than it's origin.

[vodkaanddietirnbru]

the GDA of sugars for adults is 90g (children 85g), so with a petit filous having 6.2g of sugar per small 50g pot , it is nowhere near 25% of the adult sugar allowance - a bit of scaremongering going on here!

[CoolaSchmoola]

I always think of sugar as sugar - be it fructose, glucose, lactose...

And if you aren't giving your children Petit Filous because it has 6.5g of sugar per pot, but then adding a level teaspoon (10g) of jam or honey to plain yoghurt you are totally defeating the point.

Honey is pure sugar - so if you put a heaped teaspoon (because getting a level teaspoon of honey is impossible) in you're giving them at least double the sugar of a Petit Filous....

Add to that the fact that teaspoons in cutlery sets tend to be bigger than an actual teaspoon measure then that number goes up even more.

Jam is 65% sugar..... So if you added a level teaspoon of jam into plain yoghurt it would be 6.5g of sugar - the same as a Petit Filous.... Except, again, unlikely to be a level teaspoon, or a teaspoon measure.

So all those who are adding jam or honey because Petit Filous are too sugary - you're actually giving your kids more sugar than Yoplait .

[CoolaSchmoola]

And for those of you who choose to add bananas to plain yoghurt but won't give Petit Filous because it's too sugary.....

A medium banana has 14g of sugar in it.

Other fruits:

A medium apple contains 19g of sugar

A medium orange contains 12g of sugar

So whilst there is added sugar in Petit Filous, when compared to fruit it's actually relatively low.

And those of you adding fruit to yoghurt to avoid sugary Petit Filous are also more than likely giving more sugar not less....

[notcitrus]

True, but fruit contains vitamins and fibre, unlike plain sugar.
One to watch out for is 'sweetened with fruit juice' - grape or apple juice are essentially pure sugar as no vits or fibre survive, so might as well save your money and go for standard sugary stuff!

[SomethingOnce]

I let DD have Petit Filous when we're with family as it would be rude to refuse it when their DCs eat it, but I'm not happy about the sugar content.

It's plain Greek yoghurt at home, with a spoonful of fruit purée.

[Pocketmonster]

No - as others have said they have too much sugar. I used full fat plain yogurt - Yeo Valley - and added my own stewed fruit.

[vodkaanddietirnbru]

the stewed fruit probably has as much sugar as the sugar in petit filous. I used petit filous and muller little stars when my two were small as a big tub would just go to waste.

[PartialToACupOfMilo]

A level teaspoon is 5g btw not 10g

[vodkaanddietirnbru]

it depends what you are weighing as to whether a teaspoon of it will weight 5g or 10g

[neontetra]

I tried to but she won't eat them! Perhaps they are too sweet, as she eats most things, including other brands of fruity fromage frais. I wouldn't be worried abt the sugar at this stage, as she has no teeth yet! Not good to get them hooked on only eating sweet things, obviously, but I am happy to expose her to a range of flavours.

[rumbelina]

In what world do petit filous contain 25% of an adults daily sugar allowance??

[vodkaanddietirnbru]

I know, what a lot of rubbish!

[SomethingOnce]

At least the fructose in stewed fruit comes with a side order of nutrients.

[Runningblue]

Refined sugar is worse than naturally occurring sugars. Give me a spoon of fruit purée over a teaspoon of silver spoon any day...

[lurcherlover]

From the point of view of teeth, sugar is sugar really. Your dentist would rather you gave your child a chocolate button than a raisin.

I give PF. I don't worry about amount of sugar in food, I worry about frequency of consumption, which is more important in terms of tooth decay. A petit filous once a day as part of a meal isn't as harmful as fruit juice drunk throughout the day, for example.