I got some free stuff from Crispy Green (thanks again!!!) including the Fruitzio Freeze Dried Fruit Snacks Apples & Strawberries.
These lovely snacks are all natural, and according to the package are also “peanut/tree nut free, gluten free, dairy free, vegan”. What I like about it also, is that there are ONLY three ingredients-“Apples, Strawberries and Cane Sugar”. At first I was a bit puzzled by the cane sugar- I have had freeze dried fruit before and I find it to be sweet enough, but the package also stated that there was “just a hint of natural sugar”. I’m assuming it was added just to bring out the sweetness a little bit. Regardless, it didn’t seem to effect the nutritional information in a tremendous way.
I opened up the package and saw big slices of strawberries and apples. I liked that the pieces were big rather than tiny.
The apple pieces were soft, yet crunchy. They had a sweet and quite yummy apple flavor. If I had to guess as to which apple it was, I would say a Macintosh. It doesn’t state what kind on the bag, so who knows for sure. The strawberries were crunchy as well, and actually quite tart! They were still pretty tasty, but I preferred the apples over the strawberries, even though I found more strawberry pieces than apple slices in my bag.
Overall, pretty good! I felt these were a bit crunchier and a bit sweeter than other freeze dried fruit I have had in the past. I also threw these into my cereal in the morning for some added sweetness and crunch. 4 stars
What’s your FAVORITE freeze-dried fruit? I have always been partial to bananas (:
I got these to try, for free, from the company.
i’ve only tried freeze dried strawberries & i really liked them. … but i love strawberries in general!
i’d be really interested to try freeze dried bananas! i bet they’d be great stirred into oatmeal!
YEA! they’d be so awesome 🙂
Favorite freeze dried fruit is a toss up between cinnamon apples and pineapple… love both of them!
ooh, they both sound delicious! cinnamon always makes things better 🙂