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"Just because it has fruit in the name...doesn&amp;#039;t mean it is fruit. This is a concept I&amp;#039;m trying to teach my 5 year old, and I think it&amp;#039;s starting to sink in (finally!), but it&amp;#039;s a lesson worth sharing with everyone. There are many examples on the market: fruit snacks, fruit leather, fruit roll ups, fruit twirls. Some are made with fruit purees, while others have added sugars and flavors. Most often, these types of faux fruit don&amp;#039;t contain fiber-or at least not the same amount as in real fruit-and that&amp;#039;s a shame because fiber is a healthy and satisfying component of produce. These fruit snacks also can&amp;#039;t provide the spectrum of nutrients in whole fruits that work with one another to provide health benefits that you can&amp;#039;t find in a pill, or a fruity-flavored snack. Granted, if you&amp;#039;re choosing between jelly beans and a snack made from fruit puree, the fruit pureed snack wins hands down. But if you&amp;#039;re ever questioning the difference between fruit and a fruity-flavored treat, here&amp;#039;s a test you can take to decipher between the two. Ask yourself if it tastes more like candy than a piece of whole fruit, like an apple, banana, orange, mango, etc. This is what I asked my 5 year old. When he replied that the fruit roll-ups he was given for snack that day tasted like a lollipop, the message hit home! What do you think about fruity snacks? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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