Thanks Sunny D for Solving North America’s Scurvy Epidemic

I was watching a commercial that started out quite clever. It was a boy who permanently had his handheld video game with him. When he walked the dog, he tied the leash around his neck and kept playing his game. Wherever he went, he was playing that game. Then the announcer comes on and says something like (I paraphrase here), “There are some things your kid can’t put down and one of those things is Sunny D. The good news is that one serving of Sunny D has a full day’s worth of Vitamin C.”

Sunny D is garbage and to try to trick parents or kids into thinking it’s good for them just because they dump some vitamins in it is so annoying. And it’s not like kids today are suffering from a scurvy epidemic and they’re in dire need of Vitamin C.

According to cspinet.org, here’s the ingredient list:

Water, High Fructose, Corn Syrup and 2% or Less of Each of the Following: Concentrated Juices (Orange, Tangerine, Apple, Lime, Grapefruit). Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Beta-Carotene, Thiamin Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Natural Flavors, Food Starch-Modified, Canola Oil, Cellulose Gum, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Sodium Benzoate To Protect Flavor, Yellow #5, Yellow #6

I don’t even KNOW what most of those things are! Skip the Sunny D, give your kids water to drink (milk too) and include fruits and vegetables in their diet. They’ll be just fine. Or at least please, give them REAL orange juice where the only ingredient is ORANGE JUICE.

Find more ideas for keeping the kids healthy, without Sunny D or any of those other so called “good for them” food and drinks. Check out the Moms Talk Guide to Raising Happy & Fit Kids.