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Article: UNWRAPPING FRUIT SNACKS
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- June 23, 1994
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SUSAN EDELMAN
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
06-23-1994
UNWRAPPING FRUIT SNACKS
By SUSAN EDELMAN
Date: 06-23-1994, Thursday
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early
Column: CONSUMER WATCH
You can hold strips of these edible items up to the light and see
"secret pictures." You can get them in "crazy colors," and "peel-out"
shapes, and molded into bite-size bears, trolls, dinosaurs, sharks, or
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Manufacturers call them "fruit snacks," and in the past 15 years the
sweet, chewy morsels, conveniently wrapped in individual pouches, have
grown into a $450 million-a-year market, despite bitter attacks by some
consumer ...