Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Of the first 4 ingredients, 3 are sugar and sugar derivatives and the 4th is corn oil...and 2 of the sugars are corn based. It's like the government subsidizes corn and promotes the crop as healthy to eat in all its adulterated forms. Corn itself as a veggie is wonderful, the rest of it, not so much. I cannot believe this is promoted by doctors to feed to children. It has 9 grams of sugar before you add the milk, so each 3/4 cup serving has 18 grams of sugar. I have a VERY picky eater, VEEEERY. This much sugar would change her behavior, morphing her into a hyper mess and she would sleep horribly. She was at the bottom 5% for height and weight, and I got a sample of PediaSure from her previous pediatrician's office. I read the contents and tasted it myself, it tastes like a fake vanilla milkshake that is overly sweet with a faint chemical aftertaste. I did not give it to my daughter and sought to make a better version of the idea behind it -- quick nutrition for a kiddo who only eats a handful of things. So I started making her breakfast/snack smoothies using organic whey protein, milk, her favorite fruits and a tsp. of coconut oil or pure almond oil. She has grown about 2 inches in 8 months. This PediaSure is expensive per serving, it is $1.50 (without the milk!) and has a ton of cheap corn and fake nutrition. There is an easy way to make REAL food for your very picky child: I buy natural unflavored Jarrow whey protein (80+ toddlers servings for $16.55 on sub&save), organic fruits (seasonal is cheapest), organic milk, Stevita flavor drops (one tiny bottle has 100 servings for about $5), coconut oil is easy to find these days (32 oz organic for $12 on S&S and has 192 tsp.servings); using these ingredients I can make a nutritious and DELICIOUS smoothie that costs just pennies and without added sugar or fillers in PediaSure. I keep all the shelf stable items in the cupboard together, so it takes little time to put together too. If you don't have time to blend in fruit, just use a bit of almond oil and shake it all together in a lidded cup with a sprinkle of cinnamon. You have a shake with about 4-5 ingredients instead of 35(!) you find in PediaSure, many of which are not vitamins and minerals. Hope this is helpful.