Article: The future of healthy snacks for children?

[Guest guest]

[Australia]

 

The future of healthy snacks for children?

 

Daniel Palmer

December 4, 2008

 

As food manufacturers around the world step up their focus on

producing new products that can cater toward a growing demand for

healthy products, an Australian company has become the first to create

a fruit snack bar without using puree, juice or additives.

 

Cheeky Chewz has devised a method to produce 100% dried fruit bars

that, unlike most bars, are not made from fruit juice or fruit puree.

Only the stones/cores of the fruit are removed, with the whole fruit,

skin and all, naturally preserved as a raw food. They also ensure

products have no added sugar, sulphur or preservatives.

 

Full story:

http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2008/12/04/the-future-of-healthy-snacks-for-childr\

en.html

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

It mentions " puree " as being something apparently undesirable. Why is

this? If I take a fruit, put it in the blender and blend it up--it's a

puree, isn't it? Does puree generally mean something more then blended

fruit? I was thinking that's a good way to store raw stuff--throw

apples in vitamix, blend throughly, spread on sheet in dehydrator.

 

Thanks!

 

 

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Jeff Rogers <jeff wrote:

> Cheeky Chewz has devised a method to produce 100% dried fruit bars

> that, unlike most bars, are not made from fruit juice or fruit puree.