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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated the risk level for more than 39,000 bags of fruit snacks that were recently recalled. The agency recently classified recalled gummy candy products ...

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.

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 ...