BOSTON - If you want to put a healthy fruit snack in your child's lunch bag, researchers from UMass Amherst say to stay away from fruit gummies. A UMass Amherst team of food scientists analyzed the ...

Parents sending their children back to school are bound to venture down the fruit snack aisle, but apparently in fewer numbers. Sweet treats have been a staple in lunchboxes for years. The fruit snack ...

And no, I'm not talking about gummy bears or candy. I'm talking about those individually-packaged, delectable fruity morsels that are found with the other kids' lunchbox staples. I'll admit that I'm ...

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 ...

Raise your hand if you brown bagged your lunch as a kid. Now raise your hand if your mom made sure her child’s well-balanced meal included some sort of delicious treat. If the torch has since been ...

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.

Some of my favorite recipe pins on Pinterest are those that list the ingredients right in the description. It’s nice to know up front what’s required. This gummy fruit snack recipe was one of those ...

LA JOLLA, CALIF. — Organic fruit jerky and dried fruit brand Solely Inc. is launching Organic Whole Fruit Gummies made with two simple ingredients: whole fruit and Vitamin C. The vegan fruit snacks ...

The gummy snacks may have more sugar than you expect. — -- Sometimes I think having snacks on hand is the most crucial aspect of parenting. So fruit chews -- little bags of goodies that don’t ...