A recent study showed that more than half of the food and
beverage products that clearly have fruit pictured on their
packaging contain little to no actual fruit in the ingredients
list.
The study was conducted by the Prevention Institute, a Californian
non-profit community health advocacy group. It found that in a
survey of 37 heavily marketed foods with fruit on the packaging, 51
percent did not contain any fruit at all.
Another 16 percent contained minimal amounts of fruit 10 percent
or less while the other 33 percent had an acceptable amount of
fruit, but also high
amounts of sugar.
The packages might lead a parent to believe (these products) are a
healthier option for their children, when many do not actually
deliver any of the nutritional benefits of whole fruit, wrote the
authors of the study.
