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]

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Posted on August 29, 2007
Categories: Zero Points, Strawberry, Brothers All Natural, Two Stars, Freeze Dried Fruit