It's Berry Good But Not Brilliant (You Are What You Eat Berry Good Snack Pot)

Member Name: wigglylittleworm

Product:	You Are What You Eat Berry Good Snack Pot
Date:	26/09/08 (75 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: convenient, nice mix of fruits

Disadvantages: ready cut strawberries

I managed to lose a stone earlier this year through a combination of healthy eating and using the wii fit but my sweet tooth means the pounds are slowly creeping back on again. Instead of my usual chocolate or cola I decided to pick one of these packs up in the co-op.

The you are what you eat label put me off a bit as images of Gillian Mckeith poking around in the nations poo popped into my head. She has a reputation of selling loads of faddy foods like spirulena which probably have no effect but this is good old fashioned healthy eating.

My 160g pack contained a large portion of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. Berries are known to be low glycemic load foods and blueberries were last years fashionable superfood before the acai berry came along.

I thought the mix of fruits was fairly good but only had one blackberry in my pot. I didnt like the fact that the strawberries were ready chopped as they went a bit mushy round the edges and will have lost some of their nutrition due to oxidation and a lot of their juice had escaped to the bottom of the bowl, dont get strawberry juice on your clothes like I did it's a nightmare to get off.

The fruit all tasted fresh and sweet and juicy apart from the strawberries which had lost a lot of their taste due to being sliced before being put into the bowl.

I split my pot of fruit with my daughter and we had some plain yoghurt with it which made a perfect light pudding but the fact that the bowl contains a fork means that it is easy to eat on the go.

I like the idea of a ready prepared fruit bowl, I always tend to grab junk food when I'm out. The massive portion is enough for a snack for two or breakfast for one and you will feel good about eating it.

The price was 1.99 for my bowl of fruit from the co-op. It's expensive but not excessively so when you consider the high price of blueberries and raspberries. I would buy again if they started putting whole strawberries into the bowl as it is an enjoyable mix to eat but mushy ready cut fruit did let the whole thing down a bit.

Summary: its ok