#Juice-drinks

Several groups under the auspices of Healthy Eating Research got together to produce this guide for kids ages 5-18. To summarize: Drink: water or milk Limit: 100% juice (too much sugar), plant-based milk alternatives (except for medical reasons), flavored milk (too much sugar) Avoid:

I thought I had seen everything when it comes to marketing to kids, but I never would have imagined this one.  Sweet drinks aimed at kids with animal-shaped tops: “Collect them all!” The photo was sent to me by a reader who spotted these in a Safeway in a suburb of Sacramento.  I have not seem

I’ve had so many requests to comment on Michelle Obama’s new PLEZi food business—reduced sugar but ultraprocessed artificially sweetened drinks for kids—that I feel obliged to write about them, unhappy as I am as having to consider this enterprise so ill advised. In case you missed it, the former

Fruit drinks, as opposed to 100% fruit juice, are a no-brainer.  They are heavily sugar-sweetened, and best consumed in very small amounts or not at all. They are difficult to distinguish from 100% fruit juice.  Their labels make them look fruity and juicy. So do their ingredient lists: But

I saw this question on The Lunch Tray, Bettina Siegel’s column on Substack. Turns out that lots of people have no idea what’s in these things. That’s what my NYU colleague Jennifer Pomeranz and Jennifer Harris of the University of Connecticut’s Rudd Center found in their recent study,