By the festive table, I want to buy all the tastiest and try new delicacies and drinks. I also want to please children with something interesting. And already during the shopping trip you have baby champagne in your hands. What kind of drink is this, and is it true that it can be given to children?
Sparkling for babies
Of course, in children's champagne from an adult, only one name. Under the cork of a colorful bottle under pressure, ordinary soda with a high content of carbon dioxide languishes in anticipation of its hour. Drinks in this category are made today by various manufacturers. Accordingly, all children's champagne varies in taste and composition. The packaging does not always indicate at what age a drink can be consumed. However, this information is also not provided by all manufacturers of ordinary carbonated drinks. It turns out that the decision to buy or not baby champagne, and from what age to give it to the child, is completely in the competence of the parents. Let's try to make out all the pros and cons.
We study the composition
What is written on the champagne label for kids? The composition of drinks in this category usually includes sugar or a substitute, dyes, flavorings, preservatives. Agree, solid chemistry and nothing useful. Such drinks should be chosen not by the inscription on the label, but by examining their components. The safest soda in an “adult” bottle is made of water, sugar, citric acid and natural additives that improve the taste and color of the product. But baby champagne with a long list of artificial preservatives, dyes and flavors is best left on the store shelf. Beware also of sugar substitutes. Such additives will do much more harm than just sugar.
What is the secret of champagne popularity for children?
Many parents are happy to delight their kids with separate bottles. Why not? The drink is non-alcoholic, almost completely similar to ordinary soda, the packaging looks beautiful. Children like to copy the behavior of adults and imitate their parents, a bottle of sparkling wine is much more interesting than the usual “Coke” or “Tarhuna”. And decorously pouring its contents into glasses will appeal to any child. As well as clink glasses with a characteristic chime and maintain a small talk at the table. Many parents believe that drinking special champagne during the holidays helps children develop the right attitude towards alcohol. This applies primarily to the culture of drinking. Of course, a bottle of children's champagne should open exclusively at a beautifully served table, at the arrival of guests, and not at the first children's whim in the kitchen.
Do our children need a non-alcoholic sparkling wine?
Champagne for children causes some parents to have a negative reaction and misunderstanding. What is this game in drinking alcohol and why is it needed? This opinion is true. You can teach your child the rules of
etiquette at the table and make adults feel like by serving juice, compote or mineral water in a beautiful glass. Remember your childhood, that is how we celebrated the
New Year and birthdays, sipping fruit drinks from beautiful glasses and not even thinking about any special champagne. But what if the child insistently asks to buy a sparkling drink?
As you know, demand creates supply, and vice versa, an advertisement, a story of someone from friends or rows of beautiful bottles in a store can impress your son or daughter. You can try to explain that the label for children's champagne is specially glued so bright and interesting, and inside there is ordinary lemonade. But most likely this will not stop your curious child. A good option is to buy one bottle per sample and let the baby personally compare champagne and juice (tea, fruit drink). Most likely, the choice will be made in favor of a traditional drink, rather than new items. Do not forget to explain to the child that you need to choose not what is fashionable, but what he likes best.