McDonald's serves up 'one a day' fizzy drink for kids (2024)
The drink blends 60% fruit juice from grapes, apples and raspberries with natural sparkling water. It contains no added sugar, other than natural sugar from the fruit.
A 250ml serving contains 25 grams of sugar, which a McDonald’s spokeswoman claimed equated to approximately six teaspoons of sugar while a "similar-sized smoothie or a fresh juice would contain around seven teaspoons of sugar".
Fruitizz will be served from the central drinks tower containing the other fizzy drinks, which includes the Coca-Cola brands. Research has revealed children thought drinks poured from the towers were more exciting and desirable.
Jill McDonald, chief executive and president of McDonald’s UK, said: "For the past three years, we have been working hard behind the scenes to create a fizzy drink that is unlike anything else currently available in high street restaurants.
"We tried and tested 80 formulations in order to create the right product that delivers nutritional benefit as well as a new, exciting taste."
McDonald’s restaurants will serve the drink nationwide from next Wednesday (16 May). An "extensive" ad campaign by Leo Burnett, including TV, print and digital media starts on the same date.
McDonald's pointed out that Fruitizz, which it piloted last year in Wales, was the latest new product in a series of improvements that have been made to its menu over the last decade.
Fruitizz takes a place on the Happy Meal menu alongside carrot sticks, fruit bags, mineral water and organic semi-skimmed milk.
McDonald's claimed the average Happy Meal consumed in the UK last year contained 50% less salt, 21% less saturated fat, and 31% less sugar, compared with the average Happy Meal sold in 2000.
McDonald's has developed Fruitizz, a fizzy drink aimed at kids that provides one of their five daily portions of fruit and vegetables and offers an alternative to soft drinks such as co*ke and Fanta
Fanta
The name 'Fanta' came during an employee contest to name the new beverage. Keith told them to let their Fantasie (German for imagination) run wild. On hearing that, salesman Joe Knipp thought of the name Fanta. After the war, Fanta was brought to the United States by Coca-Cola, and in 1960 they bought the trademark.
McDonald's chief executive and president Jill McDonald said: "We are thrilled to be unveiling Fruitizz, a refreshing fizzy fruit juice drink that will help parents give children one of their five-a-day.
For toddlers and older children, water is the preferred drink, so encourage this regularly through the day. Fruit juice, cordial, soft drinks, and flavoured water are not needed. Unpasteurised milks, caffeinated drinks, tea, coffee and herbal drinks are all not recommended for children.
Fruitizz will be available in McDonald's restaurants from next Wednesday, 16 May. The launch of Fruitizz follows the introduction of other healthy snacks to the Happy Meal menu, things such as carrot sticks, fruit bags and organic milk.
McDonald's is gradually phasing out its free drink refills policy. Customers would no longer be able to help themselves to self-serve soda fountains, which the company plans to discontinue entirely by 2032. What has been the norm for twenty years is slowly coming to an end.
So to wrap it all up.. sparkling water is a perfectly fine beverage choice for kids. If you want to potentially help lower your child's chances of tooth decay offer sparkling water (along with other beverages) at only meal or snack times. While water is a good option anytime of day!
The ad watchdog has rejected two complaints that ads for McDonald's new Fruitizz children's drink misleadingly claimed it provides one of the Department of Health's recommended five fruit and vegetable portions per day.
The drink will be available in all 1,200 McDonald's UK stores from 16 May following a trial in a number of stores in Wales where it was available as Fanta Fruitizz. It will be backed by a TV, print and digital campaign, created by Leo Burnett.
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