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SNACK ATTACK I’m a nutritionist – here’s 8 ‘healthy’ snacks to BAN from your child’s lunch box

We have very busy lives these days which often means parents look for what they believe are healthy fruit-based snacks for their children. Yet the truth behind supermarket fruit snacks could not be further from healthy real fruit.

Natalie spoke to Julia Etherington from The Sun about 8 popular food items that parents regularly purchase to bridge the gap between meals for their kids. Natalie breaks down the ingredient lists and nutrition value and even addresses some of the marketing tactics and phrases used by these companies to conn you into thinking they are a healthy option.

This article has been republished in The Scottish Sun and the US Times Post.

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