Fruit snacks 'contain more sugar than sweets'

[maureenho]

Fruit snacks 'contain more sugar than sweets'
29 May 2015
From the section Health

Many supposedly "healthy" fruit snacks aimed at children contain more sugar than sweets, says a campaign group.

Action on Sugar looked at 94 products on UK sale, such as coated dried fruit, and found a third contained three or four teaspoons of sugar and 85% were more sugary than Haribo Starmix sweets.

Child health experts said the findings were frightening.

The industry pointed out that most of the snacks had no added sugars, and those that did were clearly labelled.

Action on Sugar said that parents should give their children fresh fruit and vegetables instead of processed fruit snacks.

And it called on food manufacturers to stop adding unnecessary sugars to fruit-based snacks while labelling them as contributing to "one of your five a day".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32914999

[annie]

Cereal bars are the same, you are better off having a kitkat