Sensible Foods Crunch Dried Fruit Snacks - Product Review

During a recent trip to visit my hometown for a birthday party, my mother gave me a package of Sensible Foods Crunch Dried fruit snacks to try, which she had ordered from QVC. Sensible Foods fruit snacks are simply freeze-dried fruit pieces blended together in a package containing 80 calories worth of freeze-dried fruit.

Sensible Foods identifies its freeze-drying process as the "Crunch Dried" process. Although the packaging does not describe what makes this Crunch Dried Process unique compared to an ordinary freeze-drying process, the fruit pieces in a package of Sensible Foods Crunch Dried fruit snacks are colorful and nearly melt in your mouth because they are rendered crunchy and have retained their original shapes.

The advantage of freeze-dried fruit snacks over other snack mixes such as trail mix is that freeze-drying requires no additional ingredients such as fats or oils. The Sensible Foods Crunch Dried fruit snacks contain no additional ingredients above and beyond the fruit pieces themselves. Freeze drying also retains a large portions of the vitamins and minerals from the fruit, which means that fruit snacks such as the Sensible Foods Crunch Dried fruit snacks are healthy, low in calories, low in fat, and have no added sugar. The natural fruit sugars are more than enough for these fruit snacks to be sweet enough to have as a dessert or as cereal toppers.

Sensible Foods Crunch Dried fruit snacks are available in several different fruit blends. The "tropical blend" includes freeze-dried pieces of apples, pineapples, mangoes, and bananas. The "cherry berry" blend includes apples, cherries, blueberries, and strawberries. The "apple harvest" blend consists of only freeze-dried apple pieces. And the "orchard blend" includes apples, peaches, and apricots. You can gather from these ingredients lists that apples are used as filler in the Sensible Foods Crunch Dried fruit snacks, presumably because apples are cheaper than other fruits such as blueberries or strawberries. While I would prefer a greater percentage of the other fruits, the apple pieces are still tasty, crunchy, and healthy.

Because Sensible Foods fruit snacks have only 80 calories, you should not depend on these fruit snacks to give you adequate energy for hiking or exercising. They are best used as a snack between meals or as a bedtime snack to keep your metabolism running while you sleep.

In conclusion, Sensible Foods Crunch Dried fruit snacks are some of the most delicious and most healthy fruit snacks available. The "Crunch Dried" freeze-drying process preserves the fruit without any additives, and the fruit is rendered crunchy and smooth. Each package contains only 80 calories of fruit, which is actually quite substantive because fruit is not calorie dense compared to added fats and oils in other products. If you are looking for a healthy fruit snack without artificial or added ingredients, then Sensible Foods fruit snacks are exactly what you are looking for.