Is it good to give my kids yogurt covered raisins?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No single food is unhealthy or healthy (seriously!)

Offer variety and balance

Disagree completely. There are lots of unhealthy foods that are a completely unnecessary part of the diet. It's fine to eat those on occasion, but they are indeed unhealthy!!!

[Anonymous]

1.5 oz of plain raisins (the amount in one of those little boxes) has 25 grams of sugar.

The American Heart Association recommends children and teens consume less than 25 grams, or 6 teaspoons, of added sugar per day.

The yogurt covering adds even more sugar.

You are better off giving your kids whole fresh grapes and a small low sugar yogurt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1.5 oz of plain raisins (the amount in one of those little boxes) has 25 grams of sugar.

The American Heart Association recommends children and teens consume less than 25 grams, or 6 teaspoons, of added sugar per day.

The yogurt covering adds even more sugar.

You are better off giving your kids whole fresh grapes and a small low sugar yogurt.

Beware of anything labeled "low sugar", it's usually a sweetener. If kids are raised with plain whole milk yogurt, they're fine with it. I sweeten(ed) it with honey or preserves or applesauce, etc, that way you know roughly how sweet/sugary it is. When they were older they did it themselves. We never restricted access to "junk" or candy or whatever, they just didn't develop a huge fondness for overly sweet things.

On a side note, it's really surprising how overly sweet thing taste when you don't use a lot of sugar. Kind of like how overly salty food can be if you're not used to it, I imagine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1.5 oz of plain raisins (the amount in one of those little boxes) has 25 grams of sugar.

The American Heart Association recommends children and teens consume less than 25 grams, or 6 teaspoons, of added sugar per day.

The yogurt covering adds even more sugar.

You are better off giving your kids whole fresh grapes and a small low sugar yogurt.

You understand that the natural sugar in plain raisins doesn’t count as added sugar right?

[Anonymous]

We have thin kids. They like these. Every three months or so I buy the Sunmaid six pack of yogurt raisins and stick a box in each kids’ lunch three times. They feel like they hit the jackpot. Bad parent that I apparently am, I sometimes give them Raisinets when we do family movie night. It’s fun. I like treats. They like treats. It’s not a daily thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have thin kids. They like these. Every three months or so I buy the Sunmaid six pack of yogurt raisins and stick a box in each kids’ lunch three times. They feel like they hit the jackpot. Bad parent that I apparently am, I sometimes give them Raisinets when we do family movie night. It’s fun. I like treats. They like treats. It’s not a daily thing.

We all like treats, just keep in mind because raisins are sticky and they provide a continual sugar bath on biting surfaces of molars. You are better off with a candy treat that clears easily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have thin kids. They like these. Every three months or so I buy the Sunmaid six pack of yogurt raisins and stick a box in each kids’ lunch three times. They feel like they hit the jackpot. Bad parent that I apparently am, I sometimes give them Raisinets when we do family movie night. It’s fun. I like treats. They like treats. It’s not a daily thing.

We all like treats, just keep in mind because raisins are sticky and they provide a continual sugar bath on biting surfaces of molars. You are better off with a candy treat that clears easily.

But nutritionally raisons are better...they are grapes.

[Anonymous]

Blech!