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 ...

One of the most frustrating things about trying to keep yourself and your family healthy is the fact that almost every food in the grocery store is now being advertised as a delicious and “healthy” ...

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 ...

And no, I'm not talking about gummy bears or candy. I'm talking about those individually-packaged, delectable fruity morsels that are found with the other kids' lunchbox staples. I'll admit that I'm ...

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 ...

Ask any parent and they’ll probably tell you how hard it is to find snacks that earn universal kid approval. Kids definitely have a sweet tooth, but it’s hard to feel good about giving them candy.

There are plenty of things from our childhood that we would love to make a comeback: TV shows, toys, games. However, nothing delivers a "blast from the past" quite like a favorite food item from your ...

Raise your hand if you brown bagged your lunch as a kid. Now raise your hand if your mom made sure her child’s well-balanced meal included some sort of delicious treat. If the torch has since been ...

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 ...