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BANG FOR THE BITE
Fruit leather tends to carry a bit more packaging than we'd like, but it's a superconvenient, healthy snack, and the organic label sweetens the deal.
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Are you into S and M?
The Bite
(Snacks and munchies, that is.) If your answer is "Yes, Master," crack open a package of organic fruit leather - it's a healthy way to satisfy your sweet tooth while you're at school, on the trails, or tied up in your fave underground dungeon.The Benefits
- It's much healthier than masochism. A nationwide study found that 62% of Americans don't eat fruit on a daily basis; these snacks deliver a small dose of nutrients, corn syrup-free.
- Less of an Earth-lashing. Fruit leather is more concentrated than fresh fruit, so the pesticides are more concentrated too. Stick with organic.
- Satisfying your sweets fetish.
Personally Speaking
Heather's school lunchbox was usually full of stuff kids wouldn't wanna swap (sorry, Mom) - except for the fruit leather, which the other kids sought after like a bottom in a room full of tops.Wanna Try?
- Clif Kid Twisted Fruit - four tasty flavors of fruit ropes from the folks who brought you Clif Bars ($16/18).
- FruitaBü Smoooshed Fruit - widely available, chewy goodness; five flavors ($16/32).
- Bear Fruit Bars - thicker and heartier fruit leather option, in apple, apple blueberry, and apple raspberry ($6/3).
Jul 29,2008
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...and I'm a gummyholic.
I have been addicted to gummy candies of all kinds (bears, frogs, dinosaurs - everything except spiders...I hate spiders) for as long as I can remember. It is definitely my sugar rush of choice, but given my semi-recent fear of developing diabetes, I've been trying to cut down on sugar.
I've already conditioned myself to eat something sweet after like every meal (dessert included), so I've turned to fruit leather-y things as a better substitute. I get the 365 Organic Fruit Strips from Whole Foods (eating a blueberry one as we speak), and they do the trick for the most part.
But if you can suggest any other gummy substitutes, I'm all ears.
-SF Editor Mike...off to take care of step two of 12...
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Posted by: Ben | July 29, 2008 at 06:28 AM