
Dr Kyla Smith, Paediatric Dietitian, Perth WA
Chewsday Review- Babybel Cheese
Hands up if you requested a review of Babybel Cheese. There should be about 5000 of you! This is one of the most requested reviews, which tells me Babybel Cheese is very popular. Let’s see how this mini wheel of cheese performs in today’s Chewsday Review… 🔶Ingredients 🔹Milk (98%), salt, bacterial culture. microbial rennet 🔹This is one of the shortest ingredients list I’ve seen for a ‘pre-packaged’ cheese snack. 🔹Allergens: Milk 🔶Positives 🔹High calcium content (710mg/10

Dr Kyla Smith, Paediatric Dietitian, Perth WA
Chewsday Review- Freedom Foods Maple Crunch
Today's Chewsday Review features Freedom Foods' version of Nutri-Grain, known as Maple Crunch. Both foods have 4 stars in the health star rating, so which is the better option? 🔶Ingredients: 🔹Gluten free flour mix (76%) including rice, sorghum and corn flour, sugar, psyllium husks, maple syrup (2%), canola oil, salt emulsifier and flavours. Just FYI- Nutri-Grain contains similar ingredients, but use gluten-containing flours and have added protein and added vitamins and mine

Dr Kyla Smith, Paediatric Dietitian, Perth WA
How much chocolate can kids eat at Easter?
Most parents are worried about how to manage their child’s chocolate consumption at Easter. They know their kids LOVE chocolate and they just don’t know what to say about how much they can have. Why are we worried? Often parents are worried that their child will want to eat TOO MUCH chocolate (or sugar). This is the case for many adults these days. We assume that everyone will eat too much chocolate if they’re allowed to have as much as they want, but in fact, the opposite is

Dr Kyla Smith, Paediatric Dietitian, Perth WA
Chewsday Review- Messy Monkeys Banana Blast Cereal
I’m always complaining that there aren’t enough high quality breakfast cereals on the market for kiddos (or adults to eat). Oats and Weet-Bix are really the only two that get my stamp of approval (especially after they discontinued the low-sugar Cheerios ) So I was particularly excited to see that Messy Monkeys have a new cereal on the market- let’s see what I think in today’s Chewsday Review. 🔶Ingredients: 🔹Chickpea flour, maize flour, rice flour, cane sugar, psyllium husk

Dr Kyla Smith, Paediatric Dietitian, Perth WA
Chewsday Review- Freedom Food XO Crunch
Freedom Foods do some great products for people with allergies, providing gluten and nut free options of commonly enjoyed breakfast cereals. But are they any healthier? Let’s see… Today’s Chewsday Review features Freedom Foods XO crunch. 🔶Ingredients: 🔹Gluten free flour mix (65%: rice flour, wholegrain sorghum flour, maize flour), cane sugar, cocoa powder (4%), psyllium husk, chickpea fibre, golden syrup, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), flavours, salt. 🔹Common allergens i