Should babies have juice?
Posted by kathryn in Fruit
Some good advice from Choice on juices for babies. Golden Circle, Heinz and Just Juice have started selling specific Baby Juice. Despite the packaging and marketing, they’re nothing extraordinary, but are simply watered down to better suit the baby’s digestive system. The choice advice includes:
- Always dilute it for your child – about one part of juice to one or two parts of water gets the sugars down to a level they can manage.
- Never give juice or diluted juice in a bottle or cup they can suck from over time. Sucking on juice can have disastrous effects on their teeth.
- It’s recommended that children between one and six years have no more than half a cup (150 mL) a day
Babies do no need juice to have a healthy diet. You are much better off feeding them pureed and then cut up fruit, rather than relying on baby juice. Getting kids to eat fruit from an early age is an important habit to develop.
31 March, 2007
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This is a fantastic post which I’m going to show all my Argentine relatives who are rooted believers that sugar is a vital part of a child’s diet because it gives energy – unfortunately for them, a large number of local nutrionists and doctors are perpetuating this myth.
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