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58 of 66 found the following review helpful:
 Promising, but flawed Mar 01, 2007
By Michael Kozlowski
In principle, this is a great product: It's actual fruit, with nothing added, dried to a crisp and put in a packet that only has 85 calories. If you're looking for light, healthy-ish snack foods that are still tasty, this is a great choice.
But there are a couple of problems:
1. The packets are very narrow and long, which makes it virtually impossible to reach into them to get the fruit out, once you're past the top third or so.
2. There's a decent amount of fruit dust inside -- which, as these are berries and cherries, is red, and just waiting for a bit of added water to stain up any fabric it lands on.
Either of these in isolation is no problem, but put them together, and you've got a product that you MUST pour out, and yet a product that you CAN'T pour out. I guess maybe if you had a bowl or something, it wouldn't be a big deal, but that sort of takes away the portable-snack nature of it, no? As much as I liked the fruit, the inconvenience of the packaging is going to keep me from buying more.
Oh, and one more caveat: Despite the "Cherry Berry" name, this is at least 50% apple. I suspect that apples are to dried fruit mixes what peanuts are to mixed nuts, the inexpensive and unobjectionable filler. The apple tastes fine and all, but I wouldn't mind more cherries and berries, and fewer apples.
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Yummy and only one point... Apr 11, 2007
By Barbara Millet
Weight Watchers point that is. The bag is one point. A great, healthy snack to incorporate into your WW diet, or any other healthy lifestyle.
I haven't had a problem with crumbs and powder in the packets I've tried, no more than any other dried fruit I'd buy from Trader Joes or the Gerber ones. It's definitely a small bag for the price, so if you're near a Trader Joes, you should really buy their dried fruits.
Amazon does have a great price for this item though... I paid $1.79 for one packet at a major chain!! That's insanity.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Sensible Snacking May 17, 2007
By Colette Vallee
The Sensible Foods Cherry Berry snacks are great. I keep them at my desk and anytime I need a little something they are perfect. No drips or dribbles on the keyboard. I have ordered some other selections of the dried fruit, but be mindful that there are more apple pieces than berries. The pouches average about 2 blueberries, 6 strawberry slices and 2 cherries.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
One of my favorite snacks May 01, 2007
By K. Drew
When it comes to snacking, the crunch dried snacks are the best. Each fruit has a distinctive texture and flavor. The individual pieces are flavorful so you can nibble one tiny piece of banana and actually taste banana. There is no fat so you don't have greasy fingers. You can take the packages anywhere. Dried blueberries taste like blueberries. Dried cherries taste like cherries. In some of the dried fruit mixes, the general taste is "blend." With Sensible Foods crunch dried snacks, you can savor the morsels slowly, one individual flavor and one individual texture at a time or eat them fast, mingling textures and tastes depending.
I keep packages on hand to satisfy midnight snack urges, to crunch instead of chips when I eat a sandwich, to snack while I watch the tube or to grab and go. Cherry Berry is frankly delicious. I buy regularly to always have some on hand. It is much tastier, more interesting to the palate, and cleaner eating than nibbling on rice cakes, popcorn or chips. The product satisfies hunger, too, which makes it a close to perfect food in my world. The ONLY reason I did not give it a 5 is because I've gotten packages that were light on the cherries and I really like the cherries a lot.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 misleading name May 22, 2008
By J. Blankenship
While the taste is good, the name is quite misleading. There are very few cherries in the mix. It is mostly apple.
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