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Are flavors used in ice cream safe for children?
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| Yes | 62% | 77 votes | Total: 124 votes | |
| No | 38% | 47 votes |
Yes
by Tracy Lynn Smith
Created on: December 18, 2010
Is the air we breathe really needed? Of course it is. It is the same with the safety of ice cream flavors. The ice cream flavors are safe and have been used for many years. Many generations of people have grown up eating the different flavors of ice cream. Food is not what is wrong with children of today, but people are looking for excuses and food is easy to blame.
Ice cream is loved by many and is a wonderful treat. Never has there been news about ice cream flavors linked to doing harm to people nor the children. However children’s behaviors have changed from years ago. The change in behavior is not from the flavors used in ice cream.
Today’s children in general spend less time outside then children of long ago. This is because of technology and that most parents now have to work just to make ends meet. It is not the foods the children eat, it is the lack of parenting and outside exercise the children are getting.
As with almost all foods, ice cream is not a healthy to eat all the time. Foods need to be in balance with all the food groups. Ice cream makes a great desert to have a treat or snack once in a while. A healthy food diet needs to have plenty of fruit, vegetables, meat, milk, grains, and just a little bit of deserts or snack foods.
Almost every child has had ice cream. Many generations have grown up just fine with absolutely no adverse reaction just from the flavors of ice cream. There have always been food allergies, but that is a little different. The flavors of ice cream can be man made or natural. Many ice cream brands offer all natural ingredients to help ease the mind of people who worry about what is in today’s food.
People are starting to worry about what exactly is in the foods. Many people think if they don’t understand what is in their food, someone could put something in the foods that will harm them. Food makers don’t want to harm people. They want people to enjoy there foods and keep using them. Food makers also want their consumers to live a long time so they can keep selling to them. Overall, it wouldn’t make since to put things that are harmful in the food they sell.
Ice cream flavors may be healthier if the flavors are all natural. Regardless the ice cream flavors are not harmful to children. If the flavors were harmful they would have been pulled off the market years ago. Ice cream flavors are not going to harm the children.
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No
by Freyda Tartak
Created on: October 10, 2009
The next time you take your kids for ice cream, or contemplate which offering to pick from the grocery store freezer, consider not only the joy on their face. Think, too, about what exactly they are eating.
It may taste yummy but, are all those toxins and chemicals really worth it? While homemade ice cream is a different story, even premium store brands contain a shocking disregard for the health and well being of the children that will be eating them.
Part of the problem is the need to keep production costs down. Let's face it, quality and healthy eating are a lot more expensive than what is actually being sold. Perhaps the justification is that ice cream is so high in fat and sugar, anyway, that people are already being remiss by allowing their kids to eat it, so all gloves are off.
Aside from the obviously questionable choices such as rum raisin and amaretto triple fudge, let's take a look at bubble gum, cotton candy, and that oldie-but-goody, cookie dough. There are also some fairly new choices such as Superkid, which basically looks like what happens when you take red, blue, yellow, and purple Play Dough and smooth it together, as well as all the cornucopia of candy bar inspired offerings. We can be sure that the old adage about the less ingredients, the healthier it is, is blown way out of the water on any of those options.
Aside from the preservatives, the artificial colors used should give any parent pause. Pay particular attention to the "may contain" line at the end of the long list of undecipherable contents. Sure, there are the obligatory may contain peanuts, milk, egg, but, there are bigger culprits such as Tartrazine.
There is a disturbing trend in the overwhelming use of soy and lecithin. Although soy is touted as healthy, it has some serious impacts on hormone development, by simulating the effects of estrogen. There is some buzz about early onset of puberty in today's kids. So, aside from rotting their teeth and their tummies on questionable ingredients, frozen treats should be evaluated for their part in why girls are growing breasts and getting periods earlier than what is considered normal. For the very same reason, boys are not as susceptible. In fact, they are likely to experience delayed puberty. Well, since people expect boys to be less mature than girls nobody has started paying too much attention yet.
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