Fruit Snack - Nutrition

Nutrition

Fruit snacks are often produced by combining fruit juices and fruit purees with colors and flavors. They may contain other ingredients including starches, gelatin, sugar and corn syrups. Typically they contain between 15-20% moisture to give the product a desirable soft chewy texture. There are also fruit snacks that are processed snack food made from gelatin, and fruit which can consist of grape, lemon, strawberry, orange and cherry. Specific brands of fruit snacks include Welch's, Frispy, Majans BHUJA Mix, CLIF Kid Organic Twisted Fruit, GoGo SqueeZ . Some are known as fruity snacks, or fruit flavored snacks, because the quantity of genuine fruit is negligible or nonexistent. Fruit by the Foot, Fruit Roll-Ups, CUB Foods are examples. Some fruit snacks contain liquid filled centers, such as Gushers. Fruit leathers that contain a meaningful quantity of fruit and no gelatin. Joray Fruit Rolls are an example of this, containing dried apricot.

Often, fruit snacks are thought of as a healthy snack, but not all of the fruit snacks are actually healthy. They are often processed in such a way that most of its original nutritional values have declined. In fact, many packaged fruit snacks contain a label explaining that the contents are merely "fruit flavored" rather than actual dried fruit. On the plus side, vitamins A, C, and E are common in fruit snacks, and many are fat-free.