So my mom works at a school in the cafeteria and recently brought home some scooby-doo fruit snacks. I loved these as a kid and now that I am older and know more about nutrition and how to reading food labels, I was shocked to see that a single package at only 70 calories contains 5 grams of fiber. No one seems to be mentioning this on the internet about the high amount of fiber in scooby-doo fruit snacks. I mean this is a considerable amount of fiber compared to the calories and I think can be argued as an even better fiber supplement than some fiber one options. What does everyone else think about this? Is the fiber count right on these packages? I am looking at the ingredients and I do not see what in the ingredients counts for this high amount of fiber. Nothing on the internet talks about the high fiber count in these snacks either. Someone, please enlighten me.
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Ingredients listed: Apple Puree, Corn Syrup, Polydextrose, Sugar, Modified Corn Starch. Contains 2% or less of: Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Malic Acid, Sunflower Oil, Color (vegtable juice, spirulina extract, fruit juice, turmeric extract, and annatto extract), Natural Flavor, Camauba Wax, Adds A Trivial Amount of Fat
Scooby snacks and other fruit snacks designed for children’s snacks have close to zero fiber.
fruit gummies are basically pure sugar.
for me to believe this I’d need a label posted. The only other possibility is her School is somehow procuring fiber enhanced gummies, which I don’t think a child really needs..
My brain usually shuts off at the “snack” wording. I’m not a nutritionists, but for me fibre is something that naturally exists. But if I run it through a high speed blender the result is something that was fibre at a previous point in time, but isn’t any longer. So fibre for me defines my bodies ability to digest it. High fibre means it takes longer to digest it. But I can’t in all seriousness consider something as having fibre if it can dissolve in my mouth. But hey. Smooth brained ape here.