Of course nothing beats getting your 5 a day from fresh
fruit and vegetables, but when you have very fussy eaters it’s great there are
products like the Bioglan SmartKids range to fall back on. My 5 year old refuses to eat any vegetables,
apart from the very occasional raw carrot or sugarsnap pea. He'll usually only eat dry and plain foods
too, so I can’t even blend up some veggies to hide in a sauce! Although these SmartKids products were sent
to me for review, I was already a big fan of Bioglan products. If I cook a roast dinner, my son will
typically eat the roast potatoes and the stuffing (as long as it is super
crispy / verging on burnt!), so I sneakily hide a couple of teaspoons of
Bioglan’s Green Boost powder into the stuffing mixture – and he enjoys it more
than without! I’ve even added some into
chocolate cakes before, like the Cacao & Ginger cake here.
The SmartKids Fussy Eaters Multivitamins have been a real
hit in our house. I was surprised when I
opened the pack as I was expecting them to be like the usual chewy gummy-style
vitamins, but they are a powdery type of tablet instead. Don't be put off by this though, I've tried them and can honestly say they are
delicious - they actually remind me of fizzy refreshers sweets! The kids (aged 5 and 10) really enjoy them
too and described them as “fruity”, “crunchy”, “fizzy” and “super yummy”! You
can see in the macro photo below, all the natural colours from the fruit and
veg blends. Each tablet includes a blend
of grape, cranberry, blueberry, billberry, raspberry, plum, cherry, strawberry,
spinach, brocolli, carrot and tomato. They certainly 'look' healthier than the
gummy-style vitamins I used to buy!
You really can’t taste all the hidden veggies in the
chocolate flavoured SmartKids Superfood Shake at all and it really is just like
a chocolate milkshake, except without any added sugar or artificial
sweeteners. However, my children were not
too keen on the flavour of this. They
absolutely love the ‘grown up’ Bioglan Supergreens Cacao Boost version, but the
Smartkids product seems to have a different, maybe slightly sweeter flavour.
As you can see from the photo, the shake does require a lot
of mixing and a little of the powder does float to the top fairly quickly
afterwards, but it’s not too offensive – it just looks like cocoa powder.With the ‘grown up’ version, however, the
powder has much more of a green tint, so if you have picky kids, definitely
stick with the kids’ version.Saying
this, my two have never even questioned what the green stuff is, despite being
incredibly picky!!
Obviously in the short time we’ve been trying out the new
SmartKids products it is impossible to say whether or not they have had an
impact on my kids’ health, but all that extra fruit and veg goodness surely
cannot be a bad thing!
Priced at £9.99 for 30 tablets, the Fussy Eaters
Multivitamins do cost more than I would normally pay for vitamins – but then
those ‘normal’ vitamins aren’t packed full of fruit and veg. The Superfood Shake is also priced at £9.99
and works out at approx 66p per serving which I think is pretty good
value. The SmartKids range is available
to purchase from Holland and Barrett stores.
