General Mills seeks to lead the charge to remove artificial colors and flavors from artificial sources from the fruit flavored snack category, just as it is doing in the cereal category. The maker of ...

In one of the anonymous industrial parks that dot New Jersey between Newark and Trenton, as many as 10 billion pouches of Welch’s Fruit Snacks fly off the conveyor belts every year. For almost a ...

Next time you're packing lunch for your kid or reaching for a healthy afternoon bite, consider this: only three types of packaged fruit snacks -- dried fruit, fruit puree and canned fruit with juice - ...

Holding a tiny, child-sized bag of fruit snacks in my adult-sized hand immediately transported me back to sitting cross-legged on the train tracks rug of my first grade classroom. I would take each ...

Ask any parent and they’ll probably tell you how hard it is to find snacks that earn universal kid approval. Kids definitely have a sweet tooth, but it’s hard to feel good about giving them candy.

Though fruit snacks contain the word fruit, they are a poor substitute for a healthier snack. In fact, due to their high sugar content, they are no better than giving your child (or yourself!) a piece ...