People are being encouraged to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day and one of the main ways that children keep up with this intake is through the consumption of fruit juice.
However, the Royal College of Surgeons have recently highlighted that around 50 percent of children who are aged five years old, show signs of wear on their enamel. Dentists have highlighted that this is probably because they are drinking too many fruit drinks, such as juice and smoothies.
Cathy Harley is the Dean of Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons and she has requested that students are offered water or milk instead of fruit juice during breaks at school. She highlighted that the acid in these drinks is causing children’s teeth to be eroded.
She has encouraged parents to only give their children one glass of fruit juice a week which is significantly less than the amount recommended by the NHS. Acidic drinks have become an increasing concern to dentists over the last few years, especially their impact on children.
The Dental Institute at King’s College London last year published a study which showed that eating an apple could be worse for a child’s teeth than drinking a sugary fizzy drink because the apple contains acid. The study looked at over 1000 people who were aged 18 to 30. Damien Walmsley from the British Dental Association has said that if children are going to eat fruit they should do it during mealtimes, and not consume it as a snack.
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