Real fruit vs Tin fruit

Kylah will not eat real fruit, only bananas and mangoes, but she will eat anything out of a tin. I only buy the fruit juice stuff, but some fruit is better than no fruit right?

Is tinned fruit bad for her?

no its not bad, the ones in syrup arent as good as the ones in juice.... my kids eat that many cans of fruit salad a week its crazy but they also love all other fruit too!

I think that the tinned fruit will have been cooked right? But I don't think the cooking process would have made too much of a difference to the goodness of the fruit and as long as not the syrup fruit then there won't be any extra sugar or anything.

Tinned fruit today is like bottling, what our Grandmas & Mothers did yesteryear.



Edited by AandCsmum

Thank you everyone! I will continue to buy her tinned fruit! YAY

I spoke to a dietician about this once, as my daughter has food allergies and was reacting to tinned fruit. Tinned fruit tends to be made of less ripe fruit and fruit that has been grown out of season. There's nothing wrong with this, except that it tends to be high in salicylates because of this. If your child is sensitive to salicylates I wouldn't use it, but if they're not, it's fine!

kabe wrote: I spoke to a dietician about this once, as my daughter has food allergies and was reacting to tinned fruit. Tinned fruit tends to be made of less ripe fruit and fruit that has been grown out of season. There's nothing wrong with this, except that it tends to be high in salicylates because of this. If your child is sensitive to salicylates I wouldn't use it, but if they're not, it's fine!

Very true, I only use the ones in syrup as the fruit juice ones are also very high in salicylates cause the the skins are made into juice. Watties usually has the softest fruit in their cans & I"ve also had good luck with SPC. Budget is very hit & miss.

I rinse the excess syrup off the pears we use.