Flavoured Water

DLL67

I would perservere with the plain water, she will eventually acquire a taste for it as long as you do not offer other drinks. My 3 children have all started with plain water and have loved it given time. My youngest took ages before she was drinking plenty some babies are just not bothered with drinks in the first year. I agree that artificial sweeteners are as bad as sugar, if not worse.

edwinac_2

Counting_Pennies wrote:

I avoid sugar free and carbonated waters.

What I do use is fresh fruit juice watered down (approx 1 part juice, 10 part water)

But the main drink my son has is the High Juice cordials that supermarkets sell. He currently loves the Apple one from Waitrose (found near Robinsons squashes)

Hth

Hi!

The German discount food store, Lidl, sells a very nice High-Juice blackcurrant cordial, containing 50% blackcurrant juice. I think it costs about £1.30 per litre. It's much nicer than Ribena Original which by contrast, contains a palty 22% of juice as a concentrate.

Also, there is increasing concern over two new sweeteners that have reached the food aisles. The Green block in the European Parliament have asked for SUCRALOSE and CYCLAMATE to be re-tested by European food safety experts, as evidence accumulates to suggest that the sweeteners may be unsafe, and that the FDA safety tests which led to their licensing in the USA were flawed (just as the 1970's aspartame/Nutrasweet safety tests were flawed too).

In laboratory tests, sucralose, for example, was shown to cause testicular cancer in rats.

The manufacturer of the sweetener, Tate and Lyle, do not deny that such a cancer link exists but disputes that it will be replicated in humans. Tate and Lyle claim that the amount of sucralose consumed daily by humans is far too low to cause cancer.

So far as Tate and Lyle are concerned, the "Precautionary Principle" clearly doesn't exist.

fsdss

i agree with the no sweeteners. i had the same prob with my son when he was this age, anyway i went 2 the dentist with him and the dentist recommended giving him white grape juice diluted 1pt to 10 pts water - the reason being that it was kindest to his teeth. infact since then that is what our local health authority recommend other than water or milk.

just an add on - dont give baby juices in bottles, this can serously damage their teeth, bottles are for Milk.