Fruit snacks are not healthy. They’re filled with sugar, which can lead to tooth decay and other dental caries. Eating fruit is much healthier than eating fruit snacks.
Many popular brands of fruit snacks contain ingredients like corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, artificial flavors and colors (including Yellow 6), TBHQ preservative mixed in soybean oil – so they should be avoided to keep your kids in “fighting shape”. The reason that many kids love them is because they taste really sweet. Americans have an unquenchable appetite for sweet foods due to saturation advertising aimed at getting us hooked on junk food products marketed to us every day in schools and businesses everywhere we go. We need to teach our children how…