Fruit juice always has more potential risk for kid’s health than benefits.
Fruit juice is a general name of all liquid
that is made by juicing one of the fruits. It can be drunk with pure form or
add water, sugar, ice, or other juices in order to create great refreshment and
is often considered to be very nutritious.
Many mothers consider fruit juices are
indispensible ingredients in children’s diet every day, even they are main dish
for snacks of kids. If you have the same thought, be careful, you will deflect
baby’s diet.
It
Is Not Good When Kids Drink Fruit Juice
Poor nutriment
First of all, have a look at nutritious
ingredients in fruit juice including water account for more than 90% weight,
solutes such as simple sugar (fructose) that can increase blood sugar quickly,
some water soluble vitamins which are most vitamin C and a little vitamin B.
End!!! What you get rid of in residue is
good things such as cellulose, almost vitamin B (the most are vitamins B1 and
B6 which are in thin peel next to pulp), minerals, and all vitamins which are
dissolve in fat (as beta-carotene).
These are ingredients of pure fruit juice.
If you dilute with water, add sugar (simple sugar – sucrose), the condition is
worse because they will make diet be more and more imbalance.
These
are ingredients of pure fruit juice
Less benefits, more damages
Simple sugar in fruit juice is the reason
of trouble. The more sugar supplements but does not come with vitamins B and
essential minerals to transform sugar, the higher risk of loss of reserved
nutriments is.
Simple sugar increases quickly blood sugar,
as well as inhibits nervous system of hunger. Therefore, if drinking before
meal, kids will lose their appetite leading to anorexia after long time.
For kids under 6 months old, fruit juice is
suggested that not be used even with a little content (according to WHO 2012).
At that age, the only source providing water for babies is breast milk because
to meet sufficiently demand’s energy, kids have to drink up to 120-150 ml milk
per kilogram of weight; that means total water provided from milk is excessive
daily needs of water.
For
kids under 6 months old, fruit juice is suggested that not be used even with a
little content (according to WHO 2012)
Adding fruit juice, you have to reduce a
part of milk, means to decrease source of energy and important nutrients for
babies. Fruit juice including vitamin C is also able to enhance clots of casein
in milk that will cause flatulency for babies.
For kids over 6 months old, fruit juice can
be sometimes used in extra meal to change flavor but not frequent.
Mothers should train babies to eat whole
fruits in order to use all nutrients in them, as well as create the best and
most appropriate nutritious habits.
