{"id":8704,"date":"2021-11-13T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2021-12-04T01:41:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T09:41:41","slug":"childrens-toothpaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/13\/childrens-toothpaste\/","title":{"rendered":"Childrens Toothpaste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we&#8217;ve tried some kids&#8217; toothpaste. I&#8217;m surprised at the results!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fruitilicious.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fruitilicious-136x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fruitilicious-136x300.png 136w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fruitilicious-272x600.png 272w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fruitilicious-54x120.png 54w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fruitilicious-23x50.png 23w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fruitilicious.png 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 70px) 100vw, 70px\" \/><\/a>Tom&#8217;s of Maine Children&#8217;s Fruitilicious Gel<\/strong> &#8211; The previous tubes we bought were great but the latest batch from Amazon has a chemically-bitter taste. I wrote to the company directly and they sent <strong>Tom&#8217;s of Maine Outrageous Orange Mango<\/strong> and <strong>Tom&#8217;s of Main Wicked Fresh<\/strong>. They both had the chemically-bitter taste, noted by both Abigail and I. We threw them out :-(<\/p>\n<p>We tried <strong>Burt&#8217;s Bees for Kids Fruit Fusion<\/strong> Flavor &#8211; It has a kinda pasty-gritty mouth-feel, and somewhat chemically-bitter taste. Threw out :-(<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/orajel-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/orajel-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/orajel-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/orajel-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/orajel-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/orajel-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/orajel-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/orajel-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/orajel-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/orajel-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a>We went back to Abigail&#8217;s favorite, <strong>Orajel Paw Patrol Bubble Berry<\/strong>. It has a moderately sweet, bubble-gum flavor and <strong>no chemical-bitter taste<\/strong>! We also tried <strong>Orajel Jurassic World Berry Blast<\/strong>. It has a fine flavor but Abigail still went back to the Bubble Berry.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s up with the chemical flavors? Here are the ingredients in Tom&#8217;s of Maine Children&#8217;s Fruitilicious Gel:\u00a0Sodium Fluoride 0.24%, Water, Hydrated Silica, Glycerin, Sorbitol, Xylitol, Benzyl Alcohol Sodium Laurly Sulfate, Xanthan Gum, Natural Flavor, Carrageenan, Rebaudioside A<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing\u00a0stevia, which has a chemical aftertaste, is hidden in the ingredients under &#8220;natural flavor&#8221;. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we&#8217;ve tried some kids&#8217; toothpaste. I&#8217;m surprised at the results! Tom&#8217;s of Maine Children&#8217;s Fruitilicious Gel &#8211; The previous tubes we bought were great but the latest batch from Amazon has a chemically-bitter taste. I wrote to the company directly and they sent Tom&#8217;s of Maine Outrageous Orange Mango and Tom&#8217;s of Main Wicked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9176,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions\/9176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}