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Welcome to the UK Food Guide, your FREE guide to the additives in and on our food. You will find information on all types of additives and E numbers used in both the manufacture and preservation of foodstuffs, chemicals used to grow our food, and the effects that these substances have upon ourselves and our environment.
Name and shame!
Kelloggs Real Fruit Winders are a snack product marketed directly at children, proclaiming that they are ' tremendously tasty and over 50% fruit'. So they may be, however the fruit content is processed and contains a meagre 1.5% fibre, and the sugar content is a massive 36%. Not a product to feed your children if you wish to avoid frequent visits to the dentist, and certainly not to be considered as part of a healthy balanced diet.
Ingredients (Blackcurrant flavour):
Fruit (67%) (Pear puree from concentrate, blackcurrant puree from concentrate (20%), glucose syrup, maltodextrin, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil, colour: anthocyanins E163, gelling agent: pectin E440, emulsifiers: mono and diglycerides of fatty acids E471, natural blackcurrant flavouring, citric acid E330, antidoxant: absorbic acid E300, acidity regulator: sodium citrate E331, malic acid E296. ( As per www.realfruitwinders.co.uk 2nd March 2003)
Procter and Gamble's Sunny Delight beverage contains more sugar per 500 ml bottle, than the entire reccomended daily allowance for children!
Ingredients:
Water, fruit juice 15% (Orange, Lime, Mandarin and Grapefruit juice), Citric acid (E330), Vegetable oil, Preservative : Polyphosphate (E452), Modified Starch, Natural Flavourings, Vitamin C, Thickener: Guar Gum (E412), Preservative: Potassium Sorbate (E202), Sweetners: Acesulfame K (E950) and Aspartame (E951), Thickners: Xanthan Gum (E415) and Gellan Gum (E418), Beta-Carotene (Pro-Vitamin A), Vitamin B6, Thiamin (Vitamin B1).
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