In developed countries, the diet of children, especially of infants and toddlers, has changed dramatically over the past years. The products therefore differ in the amount of dietary fibre and the amounts of indigestible monosaccharides and oligosaccharides. Cloudy juice is bottled immediately after pressing, whereas clear apple juice is industrially prepared by means of enzymatic treatment of the apple pulp to obtain a higher yield and an attractive clear product.
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I n a randomised trial of children with a recent diagnosis of toddler diarrhoea who were free from symptoms after dietary advice, only reintroduction of normal clear apple juice resulted in the recurrence of diarrhoea these children could tolerate cloudy apple juice. “In retrospective studies, toddler diarrhoea has been found in children consuming very low fat diets to prevent coronary artery disease, on very high fluid intake, and with high fluid osmolality. Very low fat diets and clear apple juice can contribute to diarrhea. “ Toddler Diarrhoea: more a nutritional disorder than a disease,” an article in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, has some very good information for parents about how fruit juice and low fat diets sometimes play a part in diarrhea. A new friend asked me if her three year old’s never formed stool were the result of his apple juice consumption…