Brothers All Natural Strawberry Crisps
Price: $0.80
Serving: 1 entire bag, .26 oz.
Calories: 30
Fat: 0%, 0g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 0%, 0mg
Protein: 1g
Carbs: 2%, 6g
Fiber: 6%, 1g
Weight Watchers Points: 0 points
Brothers International Food Corporation says: We start with luscious fruit, straight from some of the best growing regions in the world. We then send it directly to our state-of-the-art FREEZE DRIED process that gently removes the water from the fresh fruit, and transforms it into a delicious, delightfully light, and flavorful CRISP. As always, we simply use fruit, nothing artificial, definitely no added sugar…just fruit, THE BEST FRUIT.
We say: These berries were one of the many food items we foisted on our colleagues this year. They were also our first experience with freeze dried food. Somehow, we managed to resist the freeze dried ice cream during childhood trips to OMSI and the Pacific Science Center. In the gift shop was generally more enamored of the hand boilers.
Sure, we considered consuming the entire .26 ounces of fruit along, but then we would have missed seeing Chad, Kate, and Josh realize that they’d just consumed strawberry-flavored styrofoam. We kid. These are not made of styrofoam, they just taste the way styrofoam would taste if it was made very sour and produced in the color of dried blood. We do not kid about the dried blood part.
Brothers All Natural’s freeze dried fruits aren’t just a flavor explosion, they’re also a textural experience. Each little berry will suck all of the saliva out of your mouth and into the product, thus making it possible for you to experience desert-like thirst and an uncomfortably full mouth at the same time.
Only after exhorting my colleagues to consume these berries did we realize that they were from China. Holy crap, we’re eating freeze-dried strawberries from China? Isn’t that a little ridiculous? I mean, I can see purchasing other things from China, like silk, catfish, and toothpaste, but strawberries? From now on, I’m not willing to go any further than Chile to get my red, sour, styrofoamy fruit.
[This review was cross-posted at HeatEatReview.com]
Posted on August 29, 2007
Categories: Zero Points, Strawberry, Brothers All Natural, Two Stars, Freeze Dried Fruit
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I haven’t tried this brand, but other freeze dried fruit options and really hope it’s not the way of the future! Quite a few cereals now have freeze dried strawberries in them and it’s really artificial tasting. I also recently bought some ’strawberries in chocolate’ thinking they’d be delicious and inside the chocolate the strawberry was freeze dried! yuck! Lets keep them real!!
Where can I buy Brothers freeze dried strawberries on-line? My local store used to carry them, but now that they don’t I don’t know where to get them. Many thanks for your reply.
I happen to think that “fresh” strawberries taste pretty artificial these days, so I rather enjoy the freaky freeze-dried slivers they put in some cereals.
That said, Ive only had them when the milk is the source of rehydration, and not my own precious spittle.
The apple version is much better. My 2.5 year old daughter loves them and could eat them by the case.