31 Everyday Foods That Are Terrible for Your Health (Avoid Them at All Costs)

Are fruit-based snacks just sugary treats?

14. Fruit snacks

You’d never let your child eat shoe wax or floor polish, but carnauba wax is exactly what’s in standard fruit snacks.

This article at Huffington Post confirms that many fruit snacks are just fruit concentrate, loads of sugar, gelatin, and artificial food colorings. In addition, Mott’s Medleys fruit flavored snacks use sodium citrate, malic acid, sunflower oil, and potassium citrate. And Welch’s fruit snacks have added coconut oil in their chews.

Need I say more?

15. Yogurt covered raisins

I never understood why people go crazy for yogurt covered raisins. Don’t they know that the coating is not real yogurt?

But I guess most people don’t know that the hard candy shell is made up of ingredients like sugar, palm kernel oil, titanium dioxide, maltodextrin, and soy lecithin.

One tiny Sun-Maid snack box of vanilla yogurt covered raisins is 20% of your daily recommended intake of saturated fat. Plus, that same tiny box has 18 g of sugar.