WEBVTT - TNC Review: School Lunchbox Snacks 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.120 It's lunchbox season and that means lunchbox snacks, and aren't 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.080 there millions of them to choose from. We could literally 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:10.560 spend hours reviewing all of our lunch box friendly snacks, 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.960 but today we've chosen just two of our favorites. But 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.119 just in case you wan't aware, Hi, I'm Leanne. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.479 Ward and I'm Susie Burrow, and. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.200 Welcome to the Nutrition Couch. We are two of Austraya's 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.760 leading dietitians bringing you all the new things on trending 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.880 nutrition news topics, health food product reviews and also our 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.160 listener questions of the week. And this is our new 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.040 mini segment on product reviews, and this week we are 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.880 chatting all things lunch box snacks. So I'm going to 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.000 hand over to you, Susie, to take the reins on 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.280 the first product that we've chosen, which I know for 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.640 you is one of your favorites. Now we must disclose 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:45.559 this is not a sponsors segment. If we ever do 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.960 a sponsors segment, we will absolutely let you guys know 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.640 and be fully transparent. So Susie's chosen one of her 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.800 favorite products this week, which is the Messy Monkey's Whole 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:55.520 Grain buttes beautiful. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.360 So I think, first of all, we will preface this 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.160 by saying that we are not saying by any means 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.840 that processed snacks for children are ever preferable to whole 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.760 foods like our yo playing yogurt or milk, or dairy 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.120 or fruit. But what we are saying is that, of 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.600 course people do buy package snacks for children. Children often 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.399 seek package snacks, and there are a million of them 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:19.920 out there, and there are certainly ones the end that 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.440 are much better than others. So I thought today, rather 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.240 than perhaps target ones we're not that much of a 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.200 fan of, because so many mums listen and we know 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.640 that you're looking for healthier options, I will really focus 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.600 on two of my favorite ones because I think there's 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:33.600 plenty of things to talk about with them. So the 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.720 first is a brand you'll all be very familiar with. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.840 It's the Messy Monkeys Whole Grain Bites. So Messy Monkeys 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.280 have a range of bars and breakfast cereal, but I've 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.600 specifically chosen the whole grain bites, which come in the 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.200 individual packets because inevitably, in my experience, kids are looking 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.520 for things in little packets, even though that's not great 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.320 for the environment. Let's again preface by saying that, and 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.080 I've chosen the ones that are Burger flavor because the 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.000 reason I've done that is that, in my experience, you 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:02.200 can't just replace a diesel with something boring. It's got 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.280 to be similar in taste, in texture, Otherwise the kids 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:05.960 just won't eat it and you waste your money. So 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.120 the Messy Monkeys, after several formulations, have come up with 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.040 a whole grain bytes, which nutritionally are pretty goodly in 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.200 and definitely recently when we had the Healthy Food Guide Awards, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:19.079 they did very well in voted by several different independent dietitians. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.880 The ingredients, so they come in a pack I think 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.960 of ten of individual twenty grams serving sizes. Nutritionally, that's 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.200 less than one hundred calories, which is always my reference 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:29.959 for a package snack food for children. It's got to 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.040 be less than one hundred calories. So these are eighty five, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.200 which is three hundred and fifty eight killer jaws one 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.440 point seven grams of protein, so they're not getting a 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.520 huge amount of protein, a little bit from the whole grain. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.320 No gluten, so no detectable gluten in this product, so 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.000 suiting gluten free people less than three percent saturated fat, 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.040 so only three point six grams of total fat one 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.600 less than one gram saturated, so very good. They're minimal 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.080 added sugar is none, so zero point two grams and 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.880 just eleven point five grams of carbohydrate per serve, which 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.760 is a good good amount. Two grams of fiber which 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.440 is not insignificant for children, and sodium seventy nine milligrams. Now, 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.160 people get quite confused with sodium because seventy nine they 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.400 think that sounds high. But we've roughly got about two 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.760 thousand per day to play with, so in the scheme 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.280 of kids snacks, this is pretty low per serve. That's 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.920 being helped by the fact it's a small serving size. Admittedly, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.600 they're gluten free, wheat free, thirty six percent whole grain, 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.800 which is where our fiber is coming from. They classify 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.160 for a source of fiber, no artificial color, s flavors, preservative, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.160 and it's a four health star rating. Now, if I 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.760 look at the ingredient mix, the flour mix is whole 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.040 grain sorgum twenty four percent maize, rice whole grain quinoir, 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.200 followed by canola oil, chickpea, fiber, natural flavors, a little 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.800 bit of sugar, salt, vegetable powder for the flavor, cocoa powder, 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.320 a multifier. So again, Leanne, you could look at that 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.120 ingredient list and say, oh, it's got extra oil added, 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.040 it's got extra sugar. But what we know nutritionally is 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.560 is because this is a very small packer. This is 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.640 twenty grand. This is like literally a tablespoon worth of weight. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.640 Even though there is a little bit added sugar, a 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.280 little bit added salt. In the rand scheme of diet, 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.160 this is very small and certainly it's up the top 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.080 of what's available for children. So I would describe this, 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.800 for want of a better description, one of the best 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.920 of what we would describe is a bad bunch in 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.280 the sense of being a processed food. So the best 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.000 of something that we want to include minimally and the diet. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.040 But for me Lea, and most importantly, when you give 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.080 the kids these, they eat them and they like them, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.960 because there's plenty of snacks out there a similar format 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.040 that the kids just won't eat because they don't taste 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.400 grape and they don't taste like what they're expecting from 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.719 a chip. They're crunchy, they're very small. As I've described before, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.800 with my twins, I won't give them a whole packet 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.480 of these. I'll break it open and give them a 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.720 few at each of their lunchboxes, and they're very happy 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.919 with that. Because they're any little, they don't need to 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.360 be eating buckets of snack food. But in general, I 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.400 think there's about four or five different flavors. There's a 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.159 sour cream, there's a cheese, one, a barbecue, there's several 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.920 salt and vinegar, so it's lots of different flavor profiles. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.440 They're child friendly, they're in a bright colored bag. They're 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.600 sold in generally the healthy section of supermarket, and I 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.480 often get them when they're on sale because they're often 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.279 coming up as half price, and I'll have a quick 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:02.920 look now because I haven't actually put it in here 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.159 what they retail at per packet normally, but I tend 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.400 to with all kids snack food, wait until it's on 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.680 sale because it's often half price, and let's be honest, 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:13.159 we we all like to save a bit of money. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:14.919 So I'll buy a few when they're on sale, and 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.440 probably at the moment, there's quite a few on sale 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.240 because they're being marketed at supermarket. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:21.320 So I've just had a. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.679 Little look and they're about five dollars for the box 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.160 at full price for the packet of ten. But as 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.080 I said myself, I tend to buy them when they're 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.640 sort of thirty fifty percent off and get them at 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.039 a much cheaper price point and stock them up because 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.720 you can save a significant amount of money with those. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.560 Have you had any clients who have used I know 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.280 mostly your clients that are female, that any of their 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.560 kids or anyone you know had any of these to try. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.240 My sisters definitely use them with her little bub who's 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.440 watch she now probably about fourteen fifteen months, so she 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.440 definitely likes these as well. But as you said, she 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.360 definitely does it where she just puts it into a 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:53.880 snap block bag and she'll give her three or four 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.000 at a time, and that little even twenty grand pack 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:57.680 at how small it is, will last her sort of 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.440 three or four days. And that's the thing I think 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.320 a lot of parents and so giving kids snack foods 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.560 and not just one packet, like it's routine to open 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.159 a lunch box. When I used to work as a 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.120 public house nutrition a SUSI, we used to do lunch 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.520 box audits of the daycare and the primary school, and 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.560 you would easily like you'd open a lunch box up 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.880 and you'd see three, four, five, six package snacks in 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.560 those lunch boxes. So I really do like your sort 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.640 of formula of opening a packet and sort of splitting 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.000 it up either between kids or just splitting it up, 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:22.800 you know, over a couple of days for the one child, 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:24.560 because as you said, like it is it is a 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.280 processed food. Is the better of a bad bunch, but 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.720 it is, you know, nutritionally, is actually quite strong. And 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.440 I like the fact that there's two grams of fiber 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.320 in a small packet as well. That's actually quite a 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.640 lot of fiber for twenty grams, and we're not getting 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.320 in a whole bulk of that. They're not adding in 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.400 a ton of extra probotic fibers or it's not like 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.920 it's sort of artificial type of fiber either. It's really 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.880 the fibers coming from the fact that they've got a 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.120 good blend of whole grain flour mixes plus the chickpea 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.120 fiber in there as well, which is which is ideal 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.240 because a lot of kids they're just not simply eating 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.080 enough veggies, which means that they're not getting in enough 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.040 fiber as well. So not the way saying you should 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.599 definitely get your fiber from package products, but it is 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.480 a little bit of a benefit of something like these 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.520 snacks to be whole grain based and contain a little 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.640 bit of fibers. So I think the brand overall is 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.400 quite good, and it does market it under Freedom Foods, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.440 isn't it, which we know is quite a strong brand 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.000 health wise for a lot of their products. So good 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.200 to see that they've come up with something that's, you know, 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:17.000 somewhat nutritionally high compared to other products in that market, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:18.920 and also appeals to kids as well. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.200 I can't agree more with young kids. I see it 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.040 all the time that parents will pack so many carbohydrate 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.520 based snacks for trips to the park, and we're talking 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.480 two and three year olds going through a packet. There's 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.600 just way too much for a packet for little kids. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.239 I wouldn't give kids a whole packet of snack food 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.240 like this until they're eight or ten years of age, 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.120 which means that two and three year olds need just 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:38.960 a few of these mixed in with their cut up 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.840 vegetables and cut up fruit. So that's a really good 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.440 take home message. The other thing I'll say about a 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.040 lot of these products is You've got to check because 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.920 some do have added MSG, which we've spoken about previously, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.160 additive six to one, and even though they may look healthy, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.960 some of the pea snaps and flavored products still contain 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.200 it in kids snacks. So one of the reasons I'm 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.440 a fan of this Messy Monkey's brand as a whole 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.520 is that they're only using natural flavors, so really check that. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.520 You definitely don't want to see flavor enhancers in any 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.480 kid's snack food in general. So that's a big reason 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:09.640 that I'm not a big fan of some of the 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.480 flavored packets of biscuits and sneak pea snaps that are 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.160 out there at the moment. So the other product I've chosen, Leanne, 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.160 is actually a rice based snack. Now, as a rule 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.440 of thumb, historically myself, as a dietitian, I don't like 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.400 rice based snacks. And the reason I don't like them 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.160 is that it's often the most highest glycemic index carbohydrate 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.920 we can find in rice crackers in particular, So as 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.439 a reference, ten rice crackers is the equivalent of about 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.520 two slices of bread worth of carbohydrate, and it's really 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:45.880 rapidly digested carbohydrate, and they're often historically being flavored also 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.480 with MSG. But there is a lot of kids rice 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.800 snacks out there, and this one we've chosen today, the 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.240 sun Rice Mini Bites, is one of the ones that 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.640 I don't mind actually compared to the ones we've often 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.440 had out there, because it's made from a whole grain 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.520 brown rice. We know that white rice is a refined grain, 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.120 very high gied, lacks the nutritional density of brown rice, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.880 so these are a whole grain brown rice eighty five percent. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.840 The next ingredient ones I've chosen the salt and vinegar, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.040 but there is actually plain as well, which are eliminating 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.439 some of these flavors that come with it. The next 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.240 ingredients vegetable oil, seasoning with some molded extra and food acid, salt, sugar, 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.400 mineral salts, yeste extra, It may starch, vegetable oil. If 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.040 you wanted to get rid of all of that, you 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.760 could choose the plain blue packet, so there's definitely options 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.120 for that. Again, it's a twenty gram pack size, which 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.079 comes in at less than that one hundred calorie per 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.960 serve or three fifty six kilogels one and a half 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.240 grams of protein, which is coming from that brown rice 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.200 saturated fat. Very low, again, very similar to the Messi 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.679 monkeys at point zero three per serve, fourteen point five 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.200 grams of carbohydrate, minimal sugars zero point four grams wouldn't 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.679 even count, not as much dietary fiber as the whole 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.240 grain variety of Messi monkeys at less than a gram. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.160 I would generally like the kids snack food to have 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.160 at least two three of either protein or dietary fiber. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.200 So this one's coming in a little bit low there. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.640 But it's a flavored brown rice product, which is pretty 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.920 innocent and again in my experience, a product the kids 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.319 are likely to eat and a million times better than 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:20.120 a rice cracker because of that brown rice base. So yeah, 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.559 and I think there's flavored options and plain options to mean, 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.000 if you wanted to get rid of some of those 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.000 colors and things from that, you'd have a pretty plain 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.320 snack that's got a bit of flavor to it and 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:30.679 the kids are likely to accept. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.760 And I think overall, just looking at the quantity per serving, 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.920 even though the twenty grand packet is quite small. You know, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.079 you got fourteen and a half grams of carbohydrate in 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.600 the serving, so that's equivalent to about a slice of bread. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.520 And so I think when parents are really adding in 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.760 a couple of these into the lunch boxes, or they're 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.240 giving the kids a couple of these packaged snack products 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.000 at the park and they're getting home and expecting a 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:50.760 child to eat a lunch or a dinner, and the 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.480 kid's full, this is probably the reason because a lot 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.240 of you know, children are just over consuming carbohydrates at 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.360 snack times. So that's why your formula from the podcast 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.360 on Sunday was really really helpful in terms of just 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.200 you know, making sure they're getting in some veggies and 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.840 some protein and some you know, salads and a piece 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.600 of fruit or something versus just too many of these 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.120 packaged products, which we know parents use more for convenience 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.280 but also because kids obviously really like them. So I 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.480 do think that that's an easy way to compare it. 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.080 So this is sort of a little packet of this 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.280 is equivalent to about a slice of bread, which I 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.880 think for parents to understand that is actually quite a 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.560 powerful marketing message as well. So I do like your 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.200 idea of sort of splitting it up and not giving 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.319 them a whole packet, particularly if they're a younger child, 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.280 you know, three, four, five, six years old as well. Well. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.160 I do like that the sun rice ones are Australian 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.880 based rice because I think that that's an important concept. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:41.720 And I've got a little bit off tangent, but stay 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.080 with me, Susie. A lot of times, when you know 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:45.880 a lot of pregnant ladies say to me, oh, can 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.280 I have protein powder? If it's a vegan based proteins, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.640 they just be very very careful with brown rice protein 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:52.600 because a lot of the times we don't know where 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.319 the rice is grown, and a lot of times it's 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.600 in countries that are not Australia, and there's a lot 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.000 of kind of harmful minerals and that sort of thing 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.000 in the soil, particularly if you know the brown rice 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.040 is coming from somewhere in Asia or something like that. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.760 So very much the recommendations for like protein powder and 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.480 pregnancy are and no, go with a brown rice type protein. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.840 And I would imagine it's very much the same. You know, 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.160 you would want the rice in a kid's based product, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:15.839 you would want to know where that's coming from or 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.640 where that's grown, because there are a lot of harmful 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.680 chemicals in the ground if it's not sort of an 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.880 austrain based product. So for me, one of the big 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.880 props is is that it is they're sourcing the rice 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.160 from Australia, so I think that that's very helpful in 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:28.160 a kids based product. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:29.800 That's a really good tip. I think a lot of 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.880 people will find that really really interesting and just something. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.320 I will just track down the price of these per packet. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.000 But the other thing I wanted to mention was looking 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.440 at the sodium of the rice, the flavored rice variety. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.120 So these are currently on sale again, they're usually five 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.439 dollars per pack of eight, and they're half prices. I 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.600 said to get it at the moment at Wally. So yeah, 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.520 I would definitely seek them out when they're on sale. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.280 But what I will say is that the flavored varieties, 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:59.679 the sodium per undergrams is over six hundred, which is 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.160 actually quite high. We normally recommend snack food or any 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.840 foods to be less than about three hundred milligrams per hundred. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.559 Now it's kind of saved with the serving size being 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.240 quite small, but just be mindful there is a little 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.480 bit of added salt that does get sort of slip 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.840 into these products to give them some flavor. And the 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.200 Messy Monkeys is a little bit lower compared to the 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.839 brown rice sun rice rice snacks, so that is something 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.200 to be aware of. But the other thing I wanted 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.679 just to mention before we wrap it uply and is 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.000 we've spoken before on podcasts about the addition of vegetable 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.520 oils in the food supply, and if you looked at 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.760 these nutritional labels, that's quite high on there. It's not ideal, 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.240 but as we've mentioned, because it's small serve, that's actually 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.800 quite little, and if it's a loafat product as these are, 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.040 it's not as much cause for concern. So yes, I'm 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:47.960 hearing what you're saying when you see vegetable oil on 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:49.880 the label, But when you see a product, for example, 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.480 that's eighty five percent whole grain brown rice, it means 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.400 that overall the amounts of oils and little bits of 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.080 sugar and salt slipping it are actually quite small, So 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.920 it's no need for concerning a relatively low fat food. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.560 I definitely think these are, as you keep saying, the 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.600 better options if you were if you were going to 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.080 get a packaged product for children as well, but I 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.080 really again so probably at third time, like the idea 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.240 of splitting up and not sort of offering these sorts 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.720 of things every single day and making it more like 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.120 a treat versus something that you see two or three 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.360 portions of in a lunch box every single day. So 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.800 I will end in that with that sort of tip 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.040 where these are sort of, even though they're better products, 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:25.800 that we still want to consider them as more of 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.160 like a treat and really do focus on the serving 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.200 of you know, one or two servings of calcium every 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.200 single day, one or two servings of fruit, one or 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.280 two servings of vegetables every single day. And if your 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.160 kids are getting home and they're too full for the 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:37.800 main meal or they're not eating a proper dinner or 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.400 proper lunch, probably because you're overfeeding them from a snack 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.120 based perspective. 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