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What's really in your fruit snack?

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    A rainbow of risk?

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You know these things we feed into our kids and they love them their fruit snacks is mostly made from fruits contain vitamin C and be low in fat calories.

It all sounds healthy any tricks me.

But apparently it's not necessarily right.

That's what it says in the box Michael Hansen senior scientist for consumer reports he is here this morning he's breaking down some of the most popular fruit snacks for us this morning so.

Michael you can't believe everything you read on the box -- these things right that's that's cracked basically these items.

There -- a label to it's so you think that there are some helpful fruit -- lots of things and -- -- but they're not there.

It's basically a candy there's lots of -- -- -- start -- -- the and we took a shot that just a second go to the -- there in the cars from -- those are some fruit -- down there -- the and -- but what's the problem with -- well what the concern -- many of these virtually all these things except for the Anthony's.

They contain artificial dyes and those guys have been linked to hyperactivity.

ADHD.

Disorder in.

In fact in -- Europe the products and have these artificial dyes have warning labels on them and there's been an attempt to have that happen in the US but it but it hasn't yet so many of them will have if you look they'll say.

Red forty yellow five blue won these are all.

-- additives there.

There's literally -- up fivefold increase between 1955 in 2007 in the the amount of artificial dyes and -- And -- not but -- and then he's in New York is considered to be harmful to kids right because it turns out there's certain kids better that basically when there.

When they're exposed these guys it it.

It makes behavior problems worse except.

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Surfing but if but if your kids eat a bunch of servings and they can be exposed those trans fats and they don't realize I have never Anderson coming out of and that they just mean you can have a little have to Graham and still be can label zero which.

That another thing is is that people think that these are great if you -- -- vegetarian family.

Or -- it's just focusing on vegetables and fruits you think about eating animal products.

Let -- yes you are you have to look for gelatin and it says gelatin.

We're -- comes from is it's you know fine but -- comes from the boiled -- skin and bones of -- primarily pigs and -- wonderful out of all the -- -- -- high fructose -- is -- be like -- -- number one ingredient -- there -- this is some that we actually pick up at my whole foods for for my -- to snack on these organic -- fruit snacks.

I thought these were -- -- you gonna tell me they're bad well they don't contain if you're gonna buy something like this.

They don't contain any of the artificial flavors or any of those and it should be pointed out that both Trader Joe's and whole foods market.

They do not sell any products that contain artificial dyes.

That is very is now Michael handsome loving you come -- the senior scientist with consumer reports thanks for clearing all this up these are not vitamins like not -- -- right it's just it's.

He's real fruit thanks.

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