Last week, the kids and I were in Target picking up a prescription and we bought some fruit cups.  I needed a few easy snacks for the kids.

These Del Monte packs were on sale on an end cap and I picked some up.

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I needed a quick item to take to the J for a lifeguarding snack the other day and grabbed one of the peaches.  It tasted horrible!  I knew there was something fake in it.  Yuck!

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When I got home, I checked the label and noticed SUCRALOSE.  I hate sucralose.  It has an awful taste.  It’s also known as Splenda.  It’s no wonder that I couldn’t eat them.

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It was the same thing with the pears and oranges.

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But, if you bought the mandarin oranges in light syrup….

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they just had sugar.

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Yeah, it’s my fault for not reading the “artificially sweetened” description on the front and reading further.  But, really Del Monte, you have a recipe that uses plain sugar and felt the need to make two different products.  One with real ingredients and one with fake ones?

This is just another reason why I can my own peaches and pears whenever possible.  I also like to use honey and maple syrup for my sweeteners most of the time, but I would pick sugar over anything artificial.

 Posted by at 8:54 PM

  3 Responses to “No Sugar Added”

  1. Sadly I’m not surprised! I grew up eating a lot of canned fruit but nowadays if I want something quick to grab I go for a banana, apple (they do store for quite a while!) or in the winter clementines. :)

    If only Target would sell those things… haha.

    • Yeah, we’re big fans of fresh fruit too. We just run out sometimes and having something else shelf stable around makes things more manageable. I can’t wait for clementine season.

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