When it comes to snacktime, you have a lot of options to choose from in the grocery aisle, but that doesn’t mean they’re all good for you to eat (or that your little ones will actually eat them).

Holding a tiny, child-sized bag of fruit snacks in my adult-sized hand immediately transported me back to sitting cross-legged on the train tracks rug of my first grade classroom. I would take each ...

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 ...

I’m always on the hunt for healthy, portable snacks for my kids. Real fruit is great, but I’ve found four-day-old, half-mashed bananas at the bottom of my purse one too many times. So when I see ...

Parents sending their children back to school are bound to venture down the fruit snack aisle, but apparently in fewer numbers. Sweet treats have been a staple in lunchboxes for years. The fruit snack ...

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 ...

Packing school lunch with only gummy fruit snacks today.

There was nothing more exciting then opening up your lunch box and finding your favorite fruit snack underneath the boring healthy stuff that your mother packed for you. Kids would always try to trade ...