BOSTON - If you want to put a healthy fruit snack in your child's lunch bag, researchers from UMass Amherst say to stay away from fruit gummies. A UMass Amherst team of food scientists analyzed the ...

Many of the fruit snacks lining grocery shelves, beckoning kids and parents with bright colors and packaging proclaiming “real fruit,” are really anything but. To avoid these essentially ...

The gummy snacks may have more sugar than you expect. — -- Sometimes I think having snacks on hand is the most crucial aspect of parenting. So fruit chews -- little bags of goodies that don’t ...

Raise your hand if you brown bagged your lunch as a kid. Now raise your hand if your mom made sure her child’s well-balanced meal included some sort of delicious treat. If the torch has since been ...

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, which means it's time to start thinking about how you'll approach your crush on the big day. Are you planning on giving them a cute heart-shaped treat? Or ...

In one of the anonymous industrial parks that dot New Jersey between Newark and Trenton, as many as 10 billion pouches of Welch’s Fruit Snacks fly off the conveyor belts every year. For almost a ...