I am a all for eating real foods, not their altered substitutes.   I have been researching why you should not give your kids these and the wonderful people at Chemical Free Skinny has done much of the background work for me.  Artificial colors are my especially on my radar.  And look at all the foods with Yellow 5 or Tartrazine in them, they’re everywhere.  Think of the cumulative effect it has upon small bodies.   

Actually those along with aspartame (NutraSweet) and sucralose (Splenda).  Don’t eat the substitutes if you want fewer calories, just eat less of the real deal.