Fruit Leather
Remember fruit roll-ups as a kid? Well, these are similar EXCEPT, check out the differences in ingredient (both are for strawberry flavor):
Fruit Roll-ups (by General Mills)
Pears from concentrate, corn syrup, dried corn syrup, sugar, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, citric acid, sodium citrate, acetylated mono and diglycerides, pectin, malic acid, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), color (red 40, yellow 5, blue 1), natural flavor.
Fruit Leather (by Stretch Island)
Apples, pears, strawberries, natural flavors, lemon juice.
I can actually pronounce all the ingredients in the fruit leather! Although I never liked fruit roll-ups as a kid, I have a friend who is constantly eating fruit leathers and people always ask her, "what the heck is that?"...they look a bit like taffy.
So I decided to try ‘em. I really wasn't ecstatic about them, but I’m biased because I never liked fruit roll-ups in the first place (or anything that has a jelly/chewy texture -- e.g., jelly beans, twizzlers, etc.). But the taste was good overall, so if you’re in the mood for something sweet, fruity, and chewy, reach for one of these. It has a diet exchange of 1 fruit. Of course, I’d personally rather have the actual fruit!
I give fruit leather 3 out of 5 lip smacks.
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4 Comments
11.03.05 | 
11.03.05 | jj commented: Real fruit leathers are awesome. But you do have to be picky about the flavors. I don't like the strawberry so well, I think the apricot, grape and cherry are better, as the flavor is stronger.
11.03.05 | Dee commented: Heh now I'm remembering that leathery smooth feeling over my lips as I'm eating fruit rollups. Nice alternative tho.
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I swear you had me @ "corn syrup, dried corn syrup"
WTF?!?!
Fruit leather, I luv that name it so kinky, sounds almost like dried fruit. Like I can picture a dried apricot and taking a rolling pin to it to flatten it out and voila fruit leather
I've got to see if they have this in my area, I'm guess Whole Foods might. I also checked out their site and found a sampler pack...yummy!