Such thing as too many raisins?

brenda.michelle

My LO is obsessed with raisins! He asks for them all day long and no matter how many I give him, as soon as they're gone he's asking (words and sign) for more.

I try to only give them to him once or twice a day and I make sure he eats a good variety of other foods and doesn't fill up on just raisins. Of course it seems like he doesn't digest them at all based on the quantity of whole raisins coming out the other end!

Does anyone know if its bad for him to eat a lot of something he can't seem to digest? I guess it would be the same thing with corn, which also comes out whole, he just doesn't eat very much corn.

 Thanks! 

AmericanInOz

I've read no more than 1/4 cup of dried fruit a day - because its so high in sugar

emsumm

I think raisins and other dried fruits are the worst things for their teeth, actually.  They are sticky and very high in sugar, so the sugar coats the teeth and accelerates the growth of caries.  I'd be careful with 'em...I try to limit them to a few times a week, and I'm careful with brushing afterwards.  Two of my sisters have had toddlers with cavities that they attribute to mass raisin consumption :P

My girls adore them, too, though

brenda.michelle

Yikes! I hadn't even thought of the tooth decay aspect! 

Even when he has them twice in one day it probably totals less than 1/8 cup so that's good. I'll have to make sure to brush his teeth right after snacks containing raisins.

Funny side note: LO probably says about 50 words routinely and pronounces them all fairly clearly with two exceptions: milk and raisins. Milk = nuh and for some reason raisins = uh-mine! So he cracks me up on a daily basis when he asks for raisins and I try to get him to pronounce it correctly. Rai-sins! Uh-mine! And repeat lol.

nosoup4u

Yeah, my kids' dentist always warns about them eating dried fruit, bc it sticks to their teeth so much. My sister had to stop buying them, bc her DD was becoming a raisin junkie, hee hee.

No worries on the lack of raisins being digested, though! 

jenna3016

brenda.michelle:

Yikes! I hadn't even thought of the tooth decay aspect! 

 

I hadn't either. 

E was eating a small amount of raisins a couple of times a week. 

ASmallWonder

jenna3016:

brenda.michelle:

Yikes! I hadn't even thought of the tooth decay aspect! 

 

I hadn't either. 

E was eating a small amount of raisins a couple of times a week. 

My mom always talks about how the first time we went to the dentist he asked if we ate candy and she proudly said no, we mostly eat raisins and he said he would have preferred the candy haha

jenna3016

Glad I found out now. :sigh: 

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