By Veggie Tom
These sweet fruity pellets are tasty and natural, if a little insubstantial – so this blueberry flavour is the best of a slightly forgettable bunch.
The product
Fruit might be a great snack, but it doesn’t flood your brain’s happy receptors with sugary satisfaction quite like a Mars Bar. So the battle to convert fruit into something more superficially alluring – to children in particular – has been waged on our shelves for many years. Do Yu!’s fruity snacks hit the mark?
The verdict:
I wish I could say that these have a chance of replacing sweets, but they just don’t have the character. They use apple juice and puree as a sweet, neutral base to make little pellets with the texture of a slightly less chewy Fruit Pastille. It’s a comparatively healthy option, as sweet snacks go, and they’re fairly tasty – but they’re also a little insubstantial. If you do fancy trying them out, I’d recommend the blueberry flavour, which packs the biggest punch.
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Ingredients: Apple Juice Concentrated and Puree,Blueberry Puree and Juice Concentrate (an average of 39g of Blueberry used to prepare 100g of Fruit Chews) ,Purple Carrot juice Concentrate ,Gelling Agent (Fruit Pectin) ,Natural Blueberry Flavouring
Can you eat it? It’s veggie, vegan and gluten free, though it does feature a ‘may contain nuts’ warning.
Not forgetting:
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