Fruit Roll-Ups Strawberry Blast

Name: Fruit Roll-Ups Strawberry Blast
Brand: Fruit Roll-Ups

Flat rolled sheets of strawberry-flavoured fruit snack, the standard lunchbox fruit leather.

Label check

Flagged ingredients5

Synthetic dyesRed 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1
Corn syrupCorn syrup
Artificial sweetenersNone listed
Seed oilsNone listed
PreservativesNone listed

Fails 2 of 5 standards. Read from the ingredient list below; what each check counts.

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredient	Check	On the label as
Red 40	Synthetic dyes	RED 40
Yellow 5	Synthetic dyes	YELLOWS 5 & 6
Yellow 6	Synthetic dyes	YELLOWS 5 & 6
Blue 1	Synthetic dyes	BLUE 1
Corn syrup	Corn syrup	CORN SYRUP

Ingredients as listed

Corn Syrup, Sugar, Pear Puree, Maltodextrin, Palm and/or Palm Kernel Oil. Contains 2% or less of: Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Monoglycerides, Fruit Pectin, Malic Acid, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), Natural Flavor, Color (red 40, yellows 5 & 6, blue 1).

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2738626). The maker’s page for it is here. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

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Fruit Roll-Ups Strawberry Blast

Label check

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredients as listed

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