Category: Candy and snacks

ZFruit Rope: Your fruit twists

ZFruit Rope: Your fruit twists

[ 0 ] December 3, 2011 |

So many fruit snacks designed for children have little or no fruits. Starches, gums and artificial colorants are added instead to mimic fruits and berries that you can see only depicted on the labels. Recently reviewed Fruit Gushers  of General Mills Sales, Inc., is an example of such a kind.  But we have good news! […]

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Healthy granola bars may help weight control

Healthy granola bars may help weight control

[ 2 ] November 27, 2011 |

I believe it is good to skip a lunch once in a while and have a healthy granola bar instead, especially before a workout or simply in the midst of a busy day. “Healthy,” in my opinion, is a product which has no strange food additives, so that consumer’s job is to balance the calories […]

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Gummi Bears: Fake Fruits

Gummi Bears: Fake Fruits

[ 3 ] November 9, 2011 |

There is seemingly nothing wrong with eating gelatin-based rubbery-textured sweet gummies. After all, while gelatin  has less nutritional value than many other protein sources, it is still a nutrient, an animal-derived structural protein. But watch out when you read something like this: Naturally and Artificially Flavored; Wild ’n Fruity; 6 Fruity Flavors; Made with Real […]

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Blow Teeth Pops

Blow Teeth Pops

[ 8 ] November 5, 2011 |

I find it very unfortunate for the American children and disgraceful for the food manufacturers that most of the candies (e. g., like Jolly Rancher) you can buy at Walmart, convenience stores and many grocery stores everywhere in the USA are nothing else but primitive and nasty stuff like these Blow Pop Charms: DyeDiet Doesn’t […]

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Fruit Gushers: The fruit fraud continues

Fruit Gushers: The fruit fraud continues

[ 6 ] October 29, 2011 |

Stated value I feel sorry for the General Mills Sales, Inc., (Minneapolis, USA) who worked so hard trying to market their nasty “fruit fraud” product to our children. Here it is, Fruit Gushers – Mood MorphersTM (Yes… See the CSPI‘s document: Diet, ADHD and Behavior). The label screams: New! The Tongue Tells It All! FRUIT […]

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What to choose for trick-or-treat?

What to choose for trick-or-treat?

[ 4 ] October 2, 2011 |

While Halloween it still a few weeks away Walmart grocery is already pumpkin-decorated and you may walk by two aisles overloaded with orange boxes full of all possible candies. However, not all of them are equally safe for your children and the children of your neighborhood. What to choose for trick-or-treat to make sure that […]

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Grandpa’s Oven popcorn

Grandpa’s Oven popcorn

[ 8 ] September 15, 2011 |

Here is Grandpa’s Oven All Natural Caramel Corn you can buy at a local Walmart for $2.98 a 9 OZ pack. Luckily this time you pay not for biologically foreign food additives. Quick glance at the green-yellow DyeDiet risk diagram is enough to see that the product is safe to eat… in moderation. DyeDiet RECOMMENDED People […]

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Harvest’s Best Granola

Harvest’s Best Granola

[ 9 ] September 12, 2011 |

If you think that there are low chances to dig out a healthy snack at a local Walmart store, you may be wrong. Here is my recent surprise finding which I am pleased to inform you about: Harvest’s Best All Natural Granola of Harlan Bakeries. DyeDiet RECOMMENDED Harvest’s Best Granola: Risk and Nutrition Look at […]

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Fruit snacks

Fruit snacks

[ 0 ] August 26, 2011 |

Here is Annie’s homegrown organic Bunny Fruit Snacks: Summer Strawberry. Multiply eye-catching claims on the box are designed to assure you that the fruit snack is of highest nutritional quality: All natural strawberry flavors No icky additives or pesky preservatives Made with real fruit juice No artificial colors USDA organic Yes, this all is true. […]

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Starburst: Artificial Fruit Chews

Starburst: Artificial Fruit Chews

[ 6 ] August 11, 2011 |

You can read on the label: cherry, orange, strawberry and lemon; natural and artificial flavors. It sounds fruity, isn’t it? But the question is: if there are natural fruits why to add cheap artificial flavors and questionable (read an article Food Dye Debate Resurfaces) artificial colors? I suspect that actual fruit content in the Starburst Fruit Chews is miserable if […]

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