Kellogg's Real Fruit Winders
Winders - The long stretchy sticky stuff - Kellogg's Real Fruit Winders Sweets

Product Type: Kellogg's Sweets

Newest Review: ... contain fruit together with no artificial colours or flavours. Each winder contains 66 calories, 6g of sugar, 1.5g of fat 0.6g saturates... more

Winders - The long stretchy sticky stuff
Kellogg's Real Fruit Winders

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Product:

Kellogg's Real Fruit Winders

Date: 29/01/09

Rating:

Advantages: The kids like them, individually wrapped

Disadvantages: wrongly thought of as a healthy alternative

Kelloggs Fruit Winders come in three different flavours.
Strawberry.
Apple and strawberry doubles.
Strawberry and blackcurrant doubles.


The box shown in the picture above is quite old and has been revamped. It still has the blue background but shows the 'winders' on the front in the specific flavour colouring.
Red.
Green and red.
Purple and red respectiveley.

The nutritional values are also clearly shown on the front of the box.
Each roll contains
66 calories
6g sugar
1.5g fat
0.6g saturates
trace of salt.
This doesn't read too badly but bear in mind that a roll is only 17g and the percentages shown clearly state that they are of an adults guideline daily amount yet to me it is clearly a product aimed at children.

On closer inspection nutritional values per 100g :

- kJ 1642
- kcal 389
Protein (g) 0.2
Carbohydrates (g) 79
- sugars (g) 37
Fat (g) 8
- saturates (g) 3.5
Fibre (g) 2
Sodium (g) 0.05

The box also boasts that the product contains no artificial colours or flavourings and are made from fruit and fruit juice.

Ingredients:

Fruit (70%) (Pear Puree From Concentrate, Strawberry Puree from Concentrate {23%}), Glucose Syrup, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Gelling Agent (Pectin), Emulsifiers (Mono and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Natural Strawberry Flavouring, Elderberry Juice Concentrate, Citric Acid, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrate), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Malic Acid.

Kelloggs Fruit Winders are suitable for vegetarians and vegans. They are
Kosher and Halal certified.

To ensure that you believe that you're buying a healthy snack, this product is sold alongside cereal bars in the cereal aisle.

In reality I think that this product should be thought of as sweet and given to your children as an occasional treat.
Personally my children find them fun, unwinding the colourful stretchy sticky stuff and then looking at the pictures on the greaseproof paper that the winders are wound on.

Personally (yes, ive tried them!) I dont like to handle them. Its impossible to eat these without touching the sweet and getting sticky. Im not too keen on the taste and the texture and I absoloutely hate the way it sticks to my teeth!

Each box contains six individual foil wrapped rolls and cost around £1.68 per box.

Summary: Is there such a thing as a healthy sweet?