Well-meaning parents are ruining their children's teeth by giving them fruit juice

• Around 25% of small children regularly consume juice
• Crushing fruit for juice releases sugars that damage one's teeth greater than eating fruit whole, experts warn
• Shakes are particularly bad because they are concentrated and stay with one's teeth

By Anna Hodgekiss

Released: 15:23 GMT, 11 April 2013

Parents are doing harm to their children’s oral health by permitting these to drink an excessive amount of juice, say dental practitioners.

The British Dental Association advised parents to limit the quantity of so-known as healthy juices and shakes they provide their kids.

Around 25 percent of small children regularly consume juice, based on a current government survey, while sixty-six per cent eat sugary sweets and snacks.

Unsweetened juice does count of 1 area of the suggested five-a-day, but experts say crushing the fruit releases sugars that damage one's teeth greater than eating fruit whole.

Dental practitioners are advocating parents to limit the quantity of so-known as healthy juices and shakes they provide their kids

Consequently, children should drink a maximum of a 150ml serving.

Dr Nigel Carter, leader from the British Oral Health Foundation, stated many parents are unknowingly destroying their children's teeth because they don't understand how harmful juice could be.

'Fruit juices have become progressively popular and also the fruit content could make them appear like advisable,A he stated. More...

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'However, they contain high amounts of sugar and acidity and thus can perform a large amount of harm to one's teeth.

'At this type of youthful age it's impractical to get rid of sweet meals and drinks altogether from the child's diet. To combat this, you should keep their consumption to meals, and be sure they merely stay hydrated or milk between foods.

'Bear in your mind it is best for that child's teeth and overall health should they have three foods each day rather than 7 to 10 "snack attacks", a few of which contains sugar.'

Shakes are particularly bad because they are concentrated and stay with one's teeth

He added that shakes were 'horrendous' for teeth, simply because they were concentrated, were frequently consumed between foods and stuck towards the teeth.

Dr Carter added: 'The most significant message to keep in mind is it's not the quantity of sugar children drink or eat, however the frequency of sugary meals and drinks within their diets.

'Children aren't born having a sweet tooth. It's acquired with time because of their nutritional habits.'

Figures from 2008 reveal that 30 percent of 5-year-olds in England had decay.

This news uses an analysis for MailOnline discovered that a little bottle of Pret a Manger orange juice contained just as much sugar as 13 Hobnob biscuits along with a small bottle of Innocent smoothie contained the equivalent sugar as three-and-a-half Krispy Kreme Raspberry braid.

Even drinks particularly targeted at children, like a bottle of Ribena, contained just as much sugar as 13 Oreo biscuits.

And also the risks of a lot sugar don't finish at jeopardized oral health.

Dr Robert Lustig, nutritional expert and author of ‘Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar’, states that consuming such high amounts of sugar - whether or not they originate from fruit or from refined sugar - increases the probability of an individual becoming obese, increases the chance of connected problems of cardiovascular disease and diabetes and overloads the liver.