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Chocolate flavored formula - DISCONTINUED!
THANK GOODNESS - I thought this was sick when it came out. I'm really glad it was discontinued!
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Re: Chocolate flavored formula - DISCONTINUED!
Right? I agree
I think <?> it was only around for a very limited time - a lot of people (myself included) thought it was really getting our babies off to the wrong start, craving chocolate at such an early age.
I don't get what's so sick about it.
It isn't infant formula. It's basically a toddler version of Pediasure (which comes in chocolate, btw).
You wouldn't use it to replace a toddler's diet. You use it as a supplement when your child isn't a good eater or doesn't take to drinking plain cow's milk. Some kids won't drink the normal formula flavor, and it already comes in vanilla, which no one seems to have a problem with.
PS- I give DD Carnation Instant Breakfast now and then, with the approval of her Dr, because she doesn't always want to eat. It's chocolate. I guess I'm just setting my child up for a lifetime of chocolate addiction. (insert huge eyeroll here)
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well if it is just for toddlers it probably isn't much different that the NutraPal drinks and Kid Essentials. I used the nutrapal one (choc) for my son for a while (when he wa sin his super picky eat stage) when he was 2 or so. I would mix it with his regular 2% milk at dinner just for some added vitamins, etc. I'm not really familiar with the choc formula but it seems like that is sort of what it is??
And I can count one one hand how many times my son has had real chocolate milk. Even now some nights at dinner he asks for chocolate milk- which at our house is ovaltine. Same kind of thing. He drinks almost all water and 2% white milk... maybe OJ a couple times a milk and ovaltine a few times a week with dinner.
I agree... I just posted a comment about it too. I didn't think it was that strange.
My Pedi had suggested we try this formula if DS didn't want to transition from FF to cow's milk at 12 months.
I do not think there was anything wrong with it being flavored, don't they have Pediasure in different flavors too? It is obviously for toddlers not for infants.
This. It isn't the same kind of formula you give infants.
Um...yeah, it's not INFANT formula.
Poor scrawny DS is under the supervision of a nutritionist and an occupational therapist for his poor eating (he is never hungry and extremely picky about what he DOES eat to boot) and they are A- OK with pediasure, in any flavor. At this stage of the game, we are just trying to avoid malnourishment...and if vanilla, chocolate or strawberry pediasure helps bridge the gap, who the eff cares?
FWIW, he was BF'd for 21 months, and I'm pretty sure that breastmilk is "sweeter" tasting than chocolate formula. And it's not like breastfed babies are doomed to have a wicked sweet tooth.
What about chocolate flavored PediaSure. It's aimed at children age 1-8.
And it's mostly sugar!!! Much worse than the toddler formula with chocolate flavoring, I am willing to bet!
I have read a label... and from their website, this is their ingredient list:
Not exactly.... there are a lot of extra vitamins, etc in those drinks. As far as sugar... let's put it in perspective
Pediasure (chocolate) 8 oz- 23g sugar
Whole milk 8oz- 16g sugar
OJ 8oz- 29g sugar
Mott's 100% Apple Juice 8oz- 58g sugar
Oops... my bad... should have said 8oz... i fixed it. ALL of the amounts were for 8oz
Hee....my first thought when I saw it was, "well, my kid's going to get a lot of chocolate-flavored milk from my breastmilk alone." Peanut butter, too. And most of Edy's slow-churned ice cream flavors. And the occasional cheeto.
16 oz of chocolate pediasure has 46g of sugar, 8oz has 23g... i know other things that we drink and put into our bodies have lots of sugar, but it's funny to me that pediasure is formulated and made and has so much sugar (whereas apple juice, oj and milk all have natural sugars in them, and the difference here is that apple juice, oj and milk are not things that you supplement a cihld's entire diet with).
again, i'm not saying that i judge people who use pediasure, and if my cihld was starving himself, i'd give him anything to make sure he wasn't becoming ill or malnurished.
OOPs all of it should have said 8oz let me correct it... they were ALL 8oz!!!!
I agree. I don't see an issue.
"you supplement a cihld's entire diet" - normally moms who give their kids this type of thing is for like once a day. Not like they are chugging down a 6 pack in a day... hehe. Did you now that the chewable vitamins have sugar in them too?
So true.
And, to get all of the other nutrition that's in one bottle of Pediasure, they'd probably be eating just as much sugar or carbs from the "real" foods over the course of the day. It's a concentrated source of vitamins and minerals, so it makes sense that the sugar level would be a little higher.
I am so not a fan of the whole "just you wait" mentality, but I can't help but LOL at the outrage about the sugar.
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exactly... I didn't want to say that either, but it is true.