Your top additives/foods to avoid with children

[Patooties]

I try to avoid anything with too much colouring. I iced some bikkies for Easter, and for a treat put pink colouring in, and they were as high as kites lol. Bread is the same here, and i'm thinking the Veal German (i know horrid stuff, but the kids like it) I give them has an effect too.

[anney]

Hi Lulu, That is interesting about the grapes and strawberries. My DD gets so hyped up at bedtime lately and we have been eating heaps of grapes in the past few weeks. Have you done any reading about what it is in them? Is it the sugar?

[LaDeeDa]

I try to stay away from preservative 202 ....nasty stuff

[saslia]

MSG - 621 is a big one with DD as well as 202 in drinks. I follow a list from Additive alert.

[~clover~]

MSG is one here. Only found out after giving DD2 theatre pop corn, rather than mocrowave stuff.
Yellow is the worst colouring for my kids. Purple also sets DD2 off (the gp office gave her 2 lollipops & I paid for it for hours!)
I pretty much avoid anything sugary that might have colours. Cordial, juice (I occasionally buy apple, but I have to watch the brand )
I can't give DD2 'chemists own' iburofen coz its orange. It literally gets her bouncing off the walls!
I don't buy grapes often & rarely buy strawberries, so I have no idea how they'd go. The few times we've had them we've been ok, but then, DD2 doesn't eat them
Oh, & chocolate! Also depends how its eaten. Easter eggs seemed ok, but cocolate muffins yesterday had them going. So it may have been something else in the muffin, but other flavours are fine.
We are pretty much trial & error still.

[Lulu]

Anney - I can't find the info! I got it here, one of the other ladies pointed out the grapes/strawberries issue, she was eating heaps of both at the time I had bad sleep issues with DD.

I think there is more about in on the Sue Dengate site. Fruit still has lotsa sugar and the way it is picked unripened has alot to do with it.

Yeah, 202 621 baaaad...

[beckoes]

interesting. i guess i hadnt really thought about fruit being that bad, i dont give dd any added sugar...choc etc. although she is only 9 months. but she eats quite alot of fruit, although i dont give her really sugary stuff just before bed. she is pretty mad most the time ( in a good way) wonder if its anything to do with the ton of grapes and strawberries she eats! and mandarins!
when she starts eating more stuff i will know to avoid 202 and 621, msg.
i have a bad reaction to fruit dryed with sulphur, so avoid that with dd and her prunes!!