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Roo is a total juice-a-holic. It's pretty sad. I can practically see the enamel discoloring on her teeth and jittery sugar spasms coming on as she sucks from yet another juice box. Sure, they're 100% juice, but c'mon– those things are full of sugar and very few nutrients. She drinks water, yes, but sometimes she wants a treat. I've written about our quest for healthy juice box alternatives but we just tried a new one that I like a lot.
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bot is filtered, deionized water that's been fortified with B vitamins and packaged in bottles emblazoned with cute characters. It comes in four flavors: lemon, grape, orange and berry. bot is sweetened (lightly) with pure cane sugar (as opposed to much-maligned corn syrup) but it still contains 75% less sugar than fruit juice.
Flavor-wise, bot is a bit subtle for the preschool palate ("umm, mom, I think this is just plain water") but it really is delicious and refreshing. For all her initial protestations, Roo was won over pretty quickly. And I like bot as an alternative to sticky-sweet sports drinks when exercising. Even my energy drink guzzling husband thinks bot is good. Would these little guys lie?
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bot is available in the natural section of many stores or you can always order bot online.
I may have to look for this. Luckily, The Bean is already accustomed to diluted fruit juice. We always give her about 1/3 juice and 2/3 water. Costs less and is better for her.
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Those are adorable... I am going to stock my fridge up!
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