Why aren processed fruit bars allowed, especially as they can provide one of the 5 a day?
The fact that fruit bars have been classed as one of the ‘recommended 5 a day portions’ only indicates how much fruit a bar contains, not the processes used during production or what the remaining non fruit proportion of a bar’s ingredients are. Usually the physical form of the fruit has changed, so it is worse for teeth and does not contain many of the nutrients that fruit does (e.g. fibre). We want to encourage children to eat fruit in its natural form.
