thread: Your top additives/foods to avoid with children

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  1. #1
    Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

    Jan 2005
    Funky Town, Vic
    7,070

    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...

  2. #2
    Registered User

    May 2008
    ...where jumping on the bed is mandatory!
    2,225

    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!!

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Jul 2004
    5,756

    Anything that has added food colour. They can't have anything red either even if its natural. Sends them bonkers. No soft drinks, no biscuits and no lollies/chocolate. Ever since cutting those out, DD's behaviour has made a huge turn around, she's like a different child.

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Oct 2007
    305

    Grapes contain natural msg and strawberries are high in salycilates.

    There are a whole list of foods that contain natural msg but the main ones we avoid for DS1 (10) are tomatoes, grapes, brocolli, sultanas, soy sauce, vegemite and tomato sauce.

    We avoid all artficial colours, flavours and additives as well as all preservatives. We also avoid the natural food colouring annato 160B which is used in a lot of yoghurts and icecreams.
    Last edited by razzle; May 9th, 2009 at 10:59 AM.

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Nov 2006
    brisbane
    3,975

    Tiny teddies are the devil! Ds had them once and was so uncontrollable and hyper! Never again!
    We try to aviod anything artificial, its hard but we try.

    Will lok up the Sue Dengate site sounds interesting! Thanks!

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Feb 2006
    Newcastle, NSW
    4,219

    We avoid 211 which is a perservative in liquids (like soft drink & cordials)
    It is very nasty and can alter your DNA. We now buy organic, home made cordial for our kids, and the occasional store bought one without 211.

  7. #7
    Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

    Jan 2005
    Funky Town, Vic
    7,070

    There is a shocking one in custard powder too....

    Thanks Razzle, thats the info I was trying badly to get across!

  8. #8
    Registered User

    May 2007
    3,220

    DS once had a hotdog and went nuts! I think it must be the red