Whats Really in our Food!

I saw some of it, and am in agreement that giving your children juice in thier bottle is something that I thought we had all been educated about. Isn't it common knowledge that putting anything that isn't water or milk in a bottle can promote tooth decay? And yes, fruit juice has a higher acidity than coke, but those bubbles have a corrosive action too!

Once a day! Wow Rowan's never had fizzy drinks and has only twice had very diluted fruit juice. As far as she's concerned water is pretty much it.

I thought it was common knowledge too.

My brother (the brilliant father that he is ) used to put chocolate milk in his 6 month old's bottle because "it tastes better"

DH's cousin gives her baby coffee and tea in her childrens bottles. Her 5 year old now has no front teeth because they rotted.

I've seen a woman pour coke into a baby bottle - coudn't believe my eyes. I also heard about a 3 mth old having milo in its bottle...

It's a good series - while I would consider myself reasonably well informed on food etc I learned a fair bit from the last one, and hope to learn a bit more from this one.

If I have fizzy I just tell Spencer it's not for him and pass him his water, he doesn't seem to care so long as he has a drink as well, even though it's not the same. The couple of times he has had a sip of my juice he hasn't liked it, would be nice to keep it that way. I am dreadful at not drinking water but I dont' want him to be the same and so far so good, he only drinks formula first thing in the morning then water the rest of the day.

Yep once a day for fizzy I thought was awful and that is the recommended amount makes you wonder how much some kids are drinking

I don't understand parents that give their kids all these different drinks, guess the marketing by the juice sellers must be working.

When I was growing up the only things we had to drink were water from the tap or milk, never had fizzy used to go up my nose and couldn't drink it.

Mum and dad drink tea and coffee, my brother and I have never really drunk it, so not everyone wants want mum and dad are having.

Aww I wouldn't feel bad - you're well informed just you have to make a hard choice.

I was actually quite shocked at how much sugar was in juice though - I mean I knew it was a lot but I didn't realise it was *that* much.

When we were kids we used to live on Raro and Refresh. I can't stand the stuff now and I hate to think what it did to us. Especially the colouring.

The advice I got from the programme, was juice from the sippy bottles was worse for teeth than from a cup.

As it was the sipping action that was wearing out the teeth.

I do like the idea of having coke as an adult drink and limiting the amount the kids get.

mrsg1 wrote: The advice I got from the programme, was juice from the sippy bottles was worse for teeth than from a cup. As it was the sipping action that was wearing out the teeth.

That's what I understand too mrsg1 - The constant dripping of the drink on the teeth causes more tooth decay (kinda like soaking your teeth in sugar) - I think same goes for things like raisins as they get stuck in kids teeth too (and perhaps don't bother them as much as it would us so they leave it).

I think I've heard that if you have to offer those sorts of drinks, offer a straw or I guess maybe put it in a glass and make sure they swallow instead of swilling it around.....

We're not big on soft drinks and have bottles of pump water in our fridge (save your lecture on how bad it is to reuse them) so our son won't have the opportunity for fizzy or juice - I just have to make sure the grandparents know the rules.